The New Hire

Overview

Barry Johnson is a mild-mannered spreadsheet analyst leading a life of quiet, almost theatrical ordinariness — alarm clocks, chicken BLTs, YouTube videos at his desk. When a woman named Moonflower Fairchild walks into his office for a job interview, something stirs in him that he can't name and can't shake. A connection he can't quite place. A past he may or may not be remembering correctly. As Barry's obsession with Moonflower deepens, the boundary between his waking life and his dreams begins to dissolve. His marriage strains. And a furious man enters his life with grievances both personal and deeply strange. Shot entirely in Cincinnati, The New Hire treats the surreal and the mundane with equal sincerity — a deadpan absurdist comedy in the tradition of early Coen Brothers and Lynch, where ordinary life turns out to be far stranger than it appears.

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Cast

Dave Leicht

Barry Johnson

Andy Gasper

Andrew Sands

April Spry

Moonflower Fairchild

Hannah Search

Sylvia Johnson

Gwen Johnson

Restaurant Employee

Jonathan Hancock

Street Musician

Colin Haydu

Young Barry

Millie Leonhardt

Young Angela

Aerilyn Leamon

Girl

Erica Kempf

Erica