November (2004) on Netflix
R20041h 13mDramaMysteryThriller
Sophie Jacobs, a photographer, faces the hardest period of her life after a traumatic November night involving her boyfriend Hugh. Headaches and strange photographs leave her unsure what is real.
- Netflix2.1/5
- IMDb5.4/103,224 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes31%
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Plot summary
At a Chinese restaurant, Sophie Jacobs and her boyfriend Hugh, an attorney, have dinner before driving home. Sophie wants something sweet, so she stops at a convenience store; while Hugh is inside buying chocolate, an armed man enters. Sophie asks Dr. Fayn, her psychiatrist, about headaches that started before that November night, and she mentions an affair with Jesse, a co-worker. She teaches a college photography class, and a slide in a student presentation shows the outside of the store on the night of the robbery. She calls Officer Roberts, who is in charge of the investigation, and neither knows who took the picture. The headaches persist, and she hears odd sounds in her apartment building and unsettling voices on the phone.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about November (2004)
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- Screenwriter Benjamin Brand based November on a news story about a store robbery in which the robber hid the cashier's body behind the counter and then impersonated the cashier as customers came in, plus his own experiences teaching photography.
- November was shot in just fifteen days on a budget of $150,000, with post-production costing the same again, a typical model for InDigEnt's low-budget digital films.
- Director Greg Harrison had earlier cast Courteney Cox in a Garry Trudeau-scripted studio ensemble film; when it never went into production, he gave her the lead in November without an audition, saying she wanted to transcend her Friends comedic persona.
- Cinematographer Nancy Schreiber bought two Panasonic AG-DVX100 cameras with white-balance and color-temperature controls and, using lighting gels and the sodium street lamps around the real convenience store, made the film's recurring robbery scenes appear green.
- Producer Danielle Renfrew's own Los Angeles home doubled as the apartment of Courteney Cox's character, and with no budget for trailers, neighboring apartments were persuaded into use as staging areas.
- Cinematographer Nancy Schreiber won the 2004 Sundance Film Festival award for Dramatic Excellence in Cinematography, calling the win "quite a shock" because the film was shot on Mini-DV and was competing against films shot on film.
- To play photographer Sophie Jacobs, Courteney Cox wore thick-framed glasses, had her hair cut by seven inches, and had a gray streak dyed into it; Harrison said he wanted to dress down the "pop icon from Friends" and make her feel like a different person.
