Bill Murray is heading to Croatia International Film Festival.
Murray will attend CIFF to screen his film, “The Friend,” which will open the fest on August 8 in Croatia’s coastal city of Sibenik.
Based on the bestselling novel by Sigrid Nunez, “The Friend” follows Iris (Naomi Watts), a writer whose life is upended when her friend and literary mentor (Murray) bequeaths her his beloved Great Dane.
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Directed by Scott McGhee and David Siegel, “The Friend,” which debuted at last year’s Telluride Film Festival and then screened at Toronto, was released to North America by Bleecker Street in March.
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