You know the image: The square-jawed man in his finely pressed suit. The smiling wife in her pearls and coifed hair. Both waving from the porch of their white-picket fence home.
They represent the American Dream—or so we’re told. But we know the sheen of that heteronormative, midcentury-modern living is often a facade, masking plenty of secrets just below the surface.
In filmmaker Ryan Sarno’s The Greatest, we’re transported back to early 1960s New York (recreated in stunning period detail), where a young couple finds themselves crumbling under the pressure to uphold that picture-perfect image, while the very foundation of this country shifts beneath them.
Jay (Isaac Nevrla) had one it all by the book: He’s worked hard and seems poised to take over the family business. He married the beautiful Beverly (Isabela Jacobsen) and moved into a new house. They even have a child together, a healthy happy baby boy. Read on…
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