After getting fired from his job, a 30something paralegal finds a new gig as a "manny" for a wealthy family in this SXSW ...

Matthew Shear makes an auspicious feature debut with a portrait of an actress (Amanda Peet) and her babysitter who feel as if ...

Fantasy Life's Matthew Shear, Amanda Peet & Alessandro Nivola discuss mental health, blending comedy with reality & ...

Take a moment to think about how many professional opportunities would have to slip through your fingers before you seriously ...

It is probably no accident that among Matthew Shear’s acting credits are no less than four movies directed by New York ...

Narrative Feature Competition Director: Matthew Shear Logline: After losing his job as a paralegal, Sam Stein suffers a panic ...

It isn’t hyperbole to say that Amanda Peet gives the performance of a lifetime in “Fantasy Life.” There probably shouldn’t be any confusion between the actress and the role she inhabits as ...

Instead, “Fantasy Life” opens with Shear himself as Sam, a timid tax lawyer who finds out he’s being let go from his job. A visit to his therapist Fred (Judd Hirsch) reveals he has plenty of ...

That should give you a sense of how much Sam (Matthew Shear) has going for himself in “Fantasy Life.” A once-promising law student whose crippling anxiety has slowed his legal career ...

Clearly he has spent his downtime on those sets soaking up the atmosphere and the comedic beats in preparation for his writing-directing debut Fantasy Life, premiering at SXSW today in the ...

It isn’t hyperbole to say that Amanda Peet gives the performance of a lifetime in “Fantasy Life.” There probably shouldn’t be any confusion between the actress and the role she inhabits as Dianne, a ...

Matthew Shear, Amanda Peet and Alessandro Nivola talk “Fantasy Life” at the L.A. Times studio at the 2025 SXSW Film Festival. Peet touches on how films seem to finally be focusing on what women want, ...