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According to Pop Wrap the first line of Mad Men’s season premiere is: “Who is Don Draper?”

Jon Hamm Shares Rude Emmy Wake-Up Call

What a reaction Mad Men’s Jon Hamm got to his nomination for best actor in a drama: “I was in bed with [girlfriend] Jennifer [Westfeldt] and my mutt Cora, who farted in my face. Not cool. She’s sort of over it all.” After that special acknowledgement, Hamm says, “there was a flurry of texts between John Slattery, Lizzy Moss and Christina Hendricks and I. And I sent a text to Miss [January] Jones, but have not heard a response yet. I am very certain she is still asleep.”

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IFC Films (distributed by MPI) in an early alert to retailers has announced plans to bring the 2009 Anders Anderson directed film “Stolen” starring Josh Lucas, Jon Hamm (of TV’s “Mad Men” fame) and James Van Der Beek to Blu-ray Disc (and DVD) on June 29th. No tech specs or information yet regarding bonus materials. The title is available for PRE-ORDER (DVD | Blu-ray) over at Amazon with a $26.99 price tag for Blu-ray and $17.99 for DVD. Stay tuned for further details on this release.

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Jon Hamm had no problem putting his retro Mad Men threads in the closet for his first lead role in a feature film, while co-star Josh Lucas had a very personal reason to throw on an outfit from yesteryear.
The two actors play emotionally distressed fathers in the independent mystery thriller Stolen, directed and produced by first-time filmmakers Anders Anderson and Andy Steinman. Inspired by the real-life “Boy in the Box” murder case in late-1950s Philadelphia, the story follows modern-day policeman Tom Adkins (Hamm) as he searches for his missing son and finds a dead child in a box at a construction site.

Then the film flashes back 50 years to a parallel story in which a grieving widower, Matthew Wakefield (Lucas), fights to keep his family together under the most grim circumstances.

Opening this month in select cities, Stolen is available on cable providers’ video-on-demand service throughout the month.

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ComingSoon.net has received exclusive photos from mystery-thriller Stolen, starring Jon Hamm (“Mad Men”), Josh Lucas, James Van Der Beek, Jimmy Bennett, Jessica Chastain, Rhona Mitra and Joanna Cassidy. The film will be available on VOD tomorrow and is opening in New York on March 12th and in Los Angeles on March 19th.

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Mad Men’s Jon Hamm makes a powerful impression as star of Stolen, a gripping feature drama about the ultimate parental nightmare, the disappearance of a child.

Costarring Josh Lucas and James Van Der Beek, the picture, written by Glenn Taranto and directed by Anders Anderson, is a meditation on loss wrapped in a time-jumping detective tale – sort of a heartland Gone Baby Gone.

Hamm is Tom Adkins, a small-town police sergeant whose son was lured away from a diner and kidnapped while Adkins paid a quick visit to the restroom. A child’s skeletal remains, found in a toy box unearthed at a construction site, sets Adkins on a trail of discovery regarding not just his own family but that of a Matthew Wakefield, whose son was snatched away similarly a half-century before.

The suspense is cleverly unconventional in that Adkins is unraveling mysteries that have been unraveled for the viewer moments before. But the story’s emotional fulcrum is less in its crime revelations than in the fate of the depressed, self-blaming Adkins and his marriage to Barbara (Rhona Mitra). An actor as well as director, Anderson is at his best in rendering the unhurried, understatedly written scenes of the couple’s brittle domestic life. They have their routines — jogging, breakfast, work, etc. — but are shells of people, devastated not just by the crime against their family but even more so by the uncertainty of their son’s fate. Hamm and Mitra deliver beautifully rendered, wisely paced, hollow-eyed portrayals that imbue with palpable sorrow roles that could have become melodramatic gothic types.

Andy Steinman’s cinematography enhances the somber mood in his yellowed palette of contrasting sunshine and shadows, a bittersweet visual constant between the town then and the town now. Cleanly edited dissolve effects carry key objects — a whistle, a box, a trinket — from one era to the next. The past’s pall over the present is furthered by the script’s biblical overtones: location names like Barnstable, which everyone pronounces “barn stable”; New Testament character names; Wakefield’s nickname (Christian); and the morality-tale consequences of infidelity and drink. Add the Independence Day carnival festivities surrounding a boy’s disappearance, and the sum amounts to a doleful portrait of American dreams looking American nightmares in the mirror.

Lucas’s Wakefield is endearing in his earnestness and his vulnerability. And Van Der Beek, as Wakefield’s more-educated construction-work pal, has, for the most part, a sharp charismatic edge to him. One character’s aging — in acting and makeup — is, unfortunately, not too persuasively done, undermining the impact of a key plot point. Overall, though, the film packs a moody punch, and along with Hamm’s superb Mad Men credentials, might best be remembered years from now as a distinct and estimable step on his way to a broader and big-screen stardom.

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