In ye olden days of Sundance, there would be buzzy movies that would sell for ridiculous amounts of money. This was part of the excitement around the festival: Who's going to buy such-and-such-film?!? And for how much??!? That reality has changed, but Fair Play, starring Phoebe Dynevor and Alden Ehrenreich as a high-powered couple working in the cutthroat world of New York finance, generated plenty of interest, eventually selling to Netflix for $20 million. I reviewed the psychological drama for Screen International.
