Jennifer Jason Leigh and Tom Noonan– voice actors – Anomalisa
FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti meets Jennifer Jason Leigh and Tom Noonan who respectively give the voices to Lisa and EVERYBODY ELSE (Noonan plays all the remaining characters except for the 2 protagonists) in the film by Charlie Kauffman and Duke Johnson, ANOMALISA. The film was awarded the Grand Jury Prize at the 72nd edition of the Venice Film Festival.
ANOMALISA: Michael Stone, an author of books on the subject of customer service, struggle with his inability to connect to people. One night, while on a routine business trip, he meets a stranger who changes his world view.
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