“The Pretty One,” starring Zoe Kazan (“Ruby Sparks”), Jake Johnson (“New Girl”), Ron Livingston (“Drinking Buddies”), John Carroll Lynch (Crazy, Stupid, Love.), Frankie Shaw, Sterling Beaumon, Shae D’lyn and Dale Raoul, is an intriguing character study about a woman who chooses to live her sister’s life. This film, directed by Jeneé LaMarque, will premiere in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Washington DC Feb. 7.

As stated above, the film is a character study of a woman who decides to ditch her boring life and become the vivacious, alluring person her sister was before her untimely death. Here’s more about “The Pretty One”:

“Some identical twins are impossible to tell apart.

Awkward and homely Laurel is the polar opposite of her twin Audrey (both played by Zoe Kazan). Audrey has confidence, style, independence and a promising career in real estate, while Laurel still lives at home doting on her widowed father (John Carroll Lynch) and romantically obsessing over the boy next door (Sterling Beaumon).

When Audrey returns home to celebrate their birthday, it’s yet another day where Audrey is praised and Laurel is pitied. That is, until Audrey urges Laurel to break out of her shell, treating her to a hair and wardrobe makeover that makes Laurel at least look identical to her sister.

But before the new Laurel can be revealed, tragedy strikes when the twins are in a car crash. Miraculously, Laurel survives but Audrey’s body is burned beyond recognition. After Laurel awakes from a coma, she doesn’t know how to react when her family tells her that “Audrey” has died. The physical trauma and grief keep her incapable of sharing her true identity and she makes the decision to change her life by secretly reinventing herself as her popular, vivacious twin.

In a complex balancing act of learning how to live someone else’s life while still maintaining a connection to her own, Laurel goes through a confusing process of loss and awakening. She is indifferent to Audrey’s current lover, self-involved Charles (Ron Livingston) who doesn’t want to leave his wife; but she finds herself strangely attracted to her new neighbor Basel (Jake Johnson), who her sister had found repugnant. As Laurel begins to slip into the life she has always wanted but never thought was possible, she must decide between continuing her life as Audrey or revealing herself as the perfect fraud.”

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