Mistaken for Strangers
Tribute Marshall Curry
Tom Berninger is a bit adrift. A lover of heavy metal and an amateur horror filmmaker, he’s living at home with his parents in Cincinnati. Meanwhile, his older brother, Matt, is the lead singer of the National, a highly successful band about to embark on an international rock tour. When Tom is invited by his brother to work as a roadie and tour with the band, he accepts the gig with hopes of experiencing the rock star lifestyle and shooting a concert tour documentary along the way. But as Tom struggles with his responsibilities on the road and life in his brother’s shadow, the movie he ends up making isn’t a conventional rock doc but a funny, highly personal story about a fraught relationship between two brothers and a meta documentary about the equally fraught process of making a film. EM
Director
Tom Berninger
Producers
Matt Berninger, Carin Besser, Craig Charland
Executive Producer
Marshall Curry
Editors
Tom Berninger, Carin Besser
Additional Editors
Marshall Curry, Jeff Seymann Gilbert, Lorena Talpan
Cinematographer
Tom Berninger
Release Year
2009
Festival Year
2015
Country
United States
Run Time
75 minutes