The Best Kind of People | Sarah Polley

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Sarah Polley, the writer-director behind Stories We Tell and Away From Her, has optioned the film rights to "The Best Kind of People", the novel by Zoe Whittall.

Polley will write the screenplay and plans to direct the feature adaptation.

The story focuses on an American family in which the father, a respected teacher, is arrested for a sex crime at a prep school. That occurrence leaves the rest of his family — his wife, who finds a community turning on her; his daughter, who becomes a social pariah; and his son, who helps with his defense — dealing with the possibility of his guilt.

"I want to make The Best Kind of People into a film because I believe that, among other things, it is an urgent story about our assumptions about perpetrators and survivors in sexual assault cases," Polley told The Hollywood Reporter. "In these frightening times, I believe it is more important than ever to tell this tale of rape culture, and how a family and a community grapples with who should be believed, and how far empathy can stretch itself." SOURCE

(yeah, it's a two-year-old story, but AFAIK the project hasn't been canceled.)