TEMPS

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TEMPS is a feature film about the other side of Generations X and Y -- the non-Slackers, or people who work.

• Temps film notes, trailer, production photos, as well as, the cast and crew lists
• Read the reviews: Variety, Immagine Magazine, New England Film

In this quirky comedy, five friends in their late 20s are plunging headlong into a “quarterlife crisis.” With seemingly limitless options, will Jane find a job that’s more than just a fling? Will Georgia’s short term compromises lead to her long term goals? Can Jonah be happy doing what he’s good at? Should Ben go corporate in love as well as work? Can Ally find some answers to these questions?

Starring GABRIELLE BURTON (Green Card Fever, Manna From Heaven), TIM BOHN (Friends, Lois & Clark), ROBERT PEMBERTON (Guiding Light), KATRINA STEVENS (American Playhouse’s Grapes of Wrath), URSULA BURTON (The Office, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood), and SEYMOUR CASSEL (Faces, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums). In this slice of life comedy from FIVE SISTERS PRODUCTIONS (Just Friends, Manna From Heaven, The Happiest Day Of His Life), the gang of TEMPS learns that you don’t need to have everything to have enough.

"Dead-on take of a generation at the crossroads." - Variety

"What’s not to admire about the spunk of the young, multi-talented Burton sisters whose family’s creative gene pool not only spawned the film’s director, but also its scriptwriter and several of its actors?" - Immagine Magazine

"As it progresses playfully and casually towards it’s end, it arrives at some essential, true-to-life conclusions." - New England Film Magazine

Color/ 95 minutes

TEMPS focuses on people who are trying to commit to work and relationships while considering various issues-such as work's being less and less committed to the worker and increasingly offered on a temporary basis, as well as the idea of one's personal identity's being defined or associated with work.

TEMPS centers on three women and two men, friends from college. Now in their late 20s, they are at points of transition in their lives, both personally and professionally.

ALLY works as a “long-term temp” to insure money for making her film. As film is the modern medium for an artist’s coming-of-age story, Ally represents the post-baby-boom generation’s Everywoman—someone struggling to express herself creatively through work she loves.

BEN, Ally’s boyfriend, is a consultant who loves his job. He wants to settle down; but Ally doesn’t, as she resists his pressure on her to “get a real job.” While he loves her freewheeling creativity, Ben worries he will never achieve a life of stability with her, and so he sets an ultimatum: three months for Ally to decide what matters most to her—settling down with him or continuing her life of working temp jobs to pay the bills.

JANE, Ally’s high-spirited and unconventional friend, wants a job free from "hypocrisy." She finds progressively wacky employment - gynecological model, stripper, etc. - in her search for "the Right Job."

GEORGIA, the third in the trio of female friends, is a computer software designer who dreams of creating an interactive encyclopedia. When her boss has other ideas for her product, she must face the choice between professional advancement and personal ideals.

JONAH Ben’s best friend, has come out to his friends and family, but has not yet become comfortable with the idea of having a steady boyfriend. He has recently quit his job as a lawyer to write the great American Novel. Not meant to be an artist, however, and continually fired from temp jobs, he sinks into lethargy and aimlessness until he can no longer afford his apartment and must return home to live with his parents.

TEMPS is an ensemble comedy which stylistically echoes the art-house films of the ‘70’s, offering an episodic, slice-of-life glimpse into the lives of five people and their different attitudes towards their work and their lives. Through a balance of humor and drama, the action and psychological development subtly unfold, exploring the conflicting pressures of professional and personal choices that are a part of the new American workplace.

Raised in a privileged world, always told they could do anything, these five characters are challenged both by so many options and by their quests for perfection. TEMPS captures the moment of transition in these characters’ lives when they learn that some readjustment and some imperfection is necessary in realizing their dreams.