Premiere of the Film Carousel at the Sundance Film Festival on January 22, 2025. Left to Right: Jenny Slate, Director and Writer Rachel Lambert and Chris Pine. Photo: TownLift//Randi Sidman-Moore
PARK CITY, UT — Sundance’s final Park City run kicked off Jan. 22, and Carousel was right in the opening wave — premiering at Eccles Theatre with stars Jenny Slate and Chris Pine on hand, joined by Tien Tran and Abby Ryder Fortson.
Premiere of the Film Carousel at the Sundance Film Festival on January 22, 2025. Actor Jenny Slate. Photo: TownLift//Randi Sidman-MoorePremiere of the Film Carousel at the Sundance Film Festival on January 22, 2025. Actor Chris Pine. Photo: TownLift//Randi Sidman-MoorePremiere of the Film Carousel at the Sundance Film Festival on January 22, 2025. The cast includes actors Chris Pine, Jenny Slate, Tien Tran, and Abby Ryder Fortson. Photo: TownLift//Randi Sidman-MoorePremiere of the Film Carousel at the Sundance Film Festival on January 22, 2025. The cast includes actors Chris Pine, Jenny Slate, Tien Tran, and Abby Ryder Fortson. Photo: TownLift//Randi Sidman-MoorePremiere of the Film Carousel at the Sundance Film Festival on January 22, 2025. The cast includes actors Chris Pine, Jenny Slate, Tien Tran, and Abby Ryder Fortson. Photo: TownLift//Randi Sidman-Moore
Directed by Rachel Lambert, the film follows a divorced Cleveland doctor whose neatly managed life gets rattled by parenting pressures — and the return of an old love.
Rebecca Brenner's work has been featured in Time, the LA Times, Tin House, The Rumpus, and others. She has lived in Park City for twenty years, now with her two children and wild cattle pup. She is a member of Leadership Park City class 30, the Park City Community Foundation’s DEI cohort, founder of Mindful. Summit County, and a board member of Summit Pride. Her debut memoir, Paper House, will be published with Wayfarer Books in Fall 2025.