{"id":267844,"date":"2026-02-04T21:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T21:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/267844\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T21:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T21:26:08","slug":"oscar-nominee-rose-byrne-mourns-her-lost-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/267844\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar Nominee Rose Byrne Mourns Her Lost Car"},"content":{"rendered":"

From \u201cMr. Smith Goes to Washington\u201d to \u201cPhiladelphia\u201d to \u201cErin Brockovich\u201d to \u201cThelma,\u201d<\/a> American cinema has officially codified the bureaucratic nightmare as a subgenre unto itself. <\/p>\n

Starring recent Oscar nominee Rose Byrne<\/a>, \u201cTow<\/a>\u201d was favorite out of last year\u2019s Tribeca Film<\/a> Festival that dives straight into the abyss of local U.S. government and\u00a0draws back a painful and hilarious retelling of the true story of Amanda Ogle (Byrne). <\/p>\n

Directed by Stephanie Laing (\u201cYour Friends and Neighbors\u201d), the upcoming film follows an impoverished Seattle woman who one days discovers that the 1991 Toyota Camry \u2014 where she\u2019s been living and is thus the center of her life \u2014\u00a0just got towed. What follows is not a quick montage of temporary setbacks, but a grinding legal odyssey through an all-too-familiar hell determined to make the already-struggling Amanda pay for someone else\u2019s mistake.<\/p>\n

\"THE<\/a> \"Atmosphere<\/a> <\/p>\n

Leaning into Byrne\u2019s knack for playing women whose composure clashes with circumstance, \u201cTow\u201d sees the Best Actress honoree coming off her ferocious and raw turn in A24\u2019s \u201cIf I Had Legs I\u2019d Kick You.\u201d<\/a> The performance has her currently nominated for Best Actress at the 2026 Oscars<\/a>. Here, Byrne once again embodies a woman pushed to the brink, although \u201cTow\u201d promises kinder, quirkier comedy.<\/p>\n

Community proved crucial in the real Ogle\u2019s fight against the city. In the \u201cTow\u201d trailer<\/a>, Amanda builds a support network of people who know the system\u2019s indifference personally. Dominic Sessa appears as her 24-year-old attorney, Kevin Eggers \u2014\u00a0while Ariana DeBose, Demi Lovato, and Octavia Spencer play women Amanda meets at a local shelter. Simon Rex, Elsie Fisher, and more round out the cast.<\/p>\n

Premiering to generally warm but still mixed reception out of Tribeca last summer, \u201cTow\u201d got a \u201cB-\u201d review from IndieWire\u2019s Christian Zilko<\/a>, who wrote that, despite some narrative shortcomings, the script from Jonathan Keasey and Brant Boivin was intensely relatable. \u201cIt\u2019s hard to dispute that the film has good intentions,\u201d he wrote. \u201cThere are plenty of Amanda Ogles in the world dealing with unimaginable bureaucratic stresses just to get through the day, and perhaps \u2018Tow\u2019 will make someone be a little kinder to one of them.\u201d<\/p>\n

From Roadside Attractions and Vertical, \u201cTow\u201d is in theaters on Friday, March 20. Watch the film\u2019s first trailer below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From \u201cMr. Smith Goes to Washington\u201d to \u201cPhiladelphia\u201d to \u201cErin Brockovich\u201d to \u201cThelma,\u201d American cinema has officially codified…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,593,409,111,139,69,38513,152331,2983],"class_list":{"0":"post-267844","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-film","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-rose-byrne","15":"tag-tow","16":"tag-trailer"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}