A feature film based on a young adult novel is undoubtedly an abnormal place for an architecture conversation. But a teen-driven coming-of-age movie and its YA source material? Certainly among the last places you’d expect to find the influence of Buckminster Fuller. And yet, here’s The House of Tomorrow, writer-director Peter Livolsi’s adaptation of Peter Bognanni’s 2010 book, in limited release beginning April 27.
The film is fairly typical of the genre: Two mismatched teens—the affectless, clinical Sebastian (Asa Butterfield) and the angry, rebellious Jared (Alex Wolff)—meet, teach each other about the world and themselves, and through punk music forge a lifelong friendship. There’s also requisite tragedy and trauma: Sebastian’s parents died in a plane crash, leaving him the charge of his grandmother Josephine (Ellen Burstyn); Jared recently had a heart transplant, leaving his father Alan (Nick Offerman) and sister Meredith (Maude Apatow) constantly dreading his body will reject the new organ.
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