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George Clooney pondering his life and its consequences in the trailer for Noah Baumbach’s upcoming, “Jay Kelly” film. Netflix unveiled its first full trailer for its awards hopeful on Monday. The film’s official summary on Netflix is: ‘Jay Kelly follows famous movie actor Jay Kelly (George Clooney).’ during his journey of self-discovery, he meets his devoted manager Ron (Adam Sandler) and confronts both his past and present.
In the trailer, Jay declares, ‘I don’t want to remain here anymore. I want to depart from the gathering.’ Kelly realizes that his daughter is going to Paris, and she decides to follow her to France, along with Ron and his publicist (Laura Dern). Recently, I’ve been feeling like my life isn’t really real, Jay tells Ron. Suddenly, I’m recalling things. What is that? “It’s like a movie where I’m playing myself,” Jay muses. The movie, which had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, and will be released in select theaters Nov. 14 and on Netflix on Dec. 5.
In addition to directing, Baumbach wrote the script with Emily Mortimer and served as producer with David Heyman and Amy Pascal. The cast also includes Billy Crudup, Riley Keough, Grace Edwards, Stacy Keach, Jim Broadbent, Patrick Wilson, Eve Hewson, Greta Gerwig, Alba Rohrwacher, Josh Hamilton, Lenny Henry, Emily Mortimer, Nicôle Lecky, Thaddea Graham, Isla Fisher, Louis Partridge and Charlie Rowe.

