Kids say the darndest things, even on set. From writer-director Angus MacLachlan, A Little Prayer follows David (Will Pullen) and Tammy (Jane Levy), whose marriage is falling apart. An outside party — David’s father, Bill (David Strathairn) — attempts to intervene and figure out why his impulsive son would want to ruin his marriage. MacLachlan joins the film’s stars Levy, Pullen, Anna Camp, and Celia Weston at the Vulture Spot at Sundance 2023 to discuss the transition from parenting a child to trying to parent an adult. “It took six years to make it, and when I started, my daughter was 15, and now she’s 21,” MacLachlan shared. “I realized in retrospect that, unconsciously, I was writing about when your child grows up and has to go away and you still want to protect them.” Despite wanting to shield children from the evils of the world, nobody can protect kids from an active imagination. One could spark their inner childhood imagination by:
➽ Building a cute little boat out of leaves
➽ Then floating it down a river
➽ And watching it crash and burn
