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Another Movie Set in Bushwick Gets a Sundance Premiere

Jessica Williams of "The Daily Show" plays a struggling playwright living somewhere in "deep, deep Bushwick."

By Magdalena Waz

Jan. 30, 2017 · 1 min read

Arts & Culture

Another Movie Set in Bushwick Gets a Sundance Premiere

Jessica Williams of "The Daily Show" plays a struggling playwright living somewhere in "deep, deep Bushwick."

Magdalena Waz January 30, 2017Jan 30, 2017 · 1 min read

“Bushwick” was not the only movie set in our neighborhood to premiere at Sundance this year. Jessica Williams who skyrocketed to fame via the “The Daily Show” stars in “The Incredible Jessica James,” a movie about a playwright in a possibly rocky new relationship with a divorced man.

Like director Jim Strouse’s other work, this movie deals with the mundane lives of regular people struggling to come to terms with some big…

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