Quiver Distribution has acquired the North American rights to the mystery-thriller Saint Clare for release in select theaters and on digital July 18.
Bella Thorne (The Babysitter), Rebecca De Mornay (The Hand That Rocks the Cradle), Frank Whaley (Pulp Fiction), and Ryan Phillippe (I Know What You Did Last Summer) star.
Mitzi Peirone (Braid) directs from a script she co-wrote with Guinevere Turner (American Psycho), based on the 2021 novel Clare at Sixteen by Don Roff.
The film is set against a small town where a solitary woman (Thorne) is haunted by voices that lead her to assassinate ill-intended people and get away with it, until her last kill sucks her down a rabbit hole riddled with corruption, trafficking and visions from the beyond.
Bart Johnson (High School Musical), Joy Rovaris (“Beauty in Black”), Jan Luis Castellanos (“13 Reasons Why”), Dylan Flashner (The Card Counter), and Erica Dasher (“Jane by Design”) round out the cast.
“I think making Saint Clare taught me the same lessons the titular character is forced to master on her journey towards her own fate,” said Peirone. “To me, artists and people of faith are rather alike: both endeavors require relentless vision, unwavering belief, and sacrifice. So just like the martyred visionary general Joan of Arc, Clare has taught me that when you are destined with vision and clarity of purpose, then nothing can scare you – not loneliness, not violence, not being misunderstood and called insane, not rejection and ultimately not even death.”
“We are thrilled to share Saint Clare with audiences,” added Quiver Co-Presidents Berry Meyerowitz and Jeff Sackman. “The film unfolds as a visually striking and intense meditation into the sense of isolation and quiet evil that haunts this world, driven by a sublime performance from Bella Thorne and an evocative, gothic soundtrack from Zola Jesus.”
