It's a Disaster

Cinephile deep dive

The take

Todd Berger directs. Nancy Schreiber behind the camera. Franklin Peterson cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

• 190 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.
• 2Released 13 years ago.
• 3Directed by Todd Berger, shot by Nancy Schreiber. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
• 4Editor Franklin Peterson shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
• 5Julia Stiles and David Cross and America Ferrera carry the top of the cast.
• 6Marketing tagline: "Brunch is about to get a whole lot worse.".
• 7IMDB entry: tt1995341 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

The technical file

Cinematography

Nancy Schreiber

Editing

Franklin Peterson

Production design

Peter K. Benson

Costume design

Karen Mann

Makeup / hair

Shauna O'Toole

Sound

Andy Hay

Runtime

90 min · 1h 30m

Aspect ratio (typical)

1.37:1 (Academy)

Status

Released

Original language

EN

Certification (US)

R

IMDB

It's a Disaster (2013) ↗

Also by

Todd Berger

• 
  Liberty Crossing

  2018 · ★ 7.7
• 
  Cover Versions

  2018 · ★ 6.6
• 
  The Scenesters

  2009 · ★ 4.9
• 
  Holiday Road

  2012

Stills · wallpapers

Selected frames

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Wallpaper

Trailers & featurettes

Watch the pieces

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  It's a Disaster Official Trailer #1 (2013) - Julia Stiles, David Cross Movie HD

  Trailer

Community reviews

What people are saying

• Kamurai2021-02-09
  ★ 5/10

  Forgettable watch, probably won't watch again, and can't recommend. I just watched "Save Yourselves" and was hoping this would be as good, but I forgot I'd see it before. I'm a big fan of Julia Stiles and America Ferrera, and the rest of the cast is actually pretty good, but it's just such heavy subject matter, filled with the most petty relationship and friendship issues combined with the most boring aspects of being stuck inside a house, ignoring any of the "impending threat" aspects that would actually make it good. And it's not that those aspects aren't there, they're just minimized severely. Which makes the group's mental breakdowns and the ultimate resolution just strange.

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Production companies

Who made it

• VA

  Vacationeer Productions

• AR

  ARM Entertainment

• AT

  Attainment Media Group

• GO

  Gordon Bijelonic / Datari Turner Films

Key crew

• ProducerDatari Turner
• Executive ProducerKrysanne Katsoolis
• EditorFranklin Peterson
• ProducerJeff Grace
• Executive ProducerJesse Draper
• Executive ProducerRob McGillivray
• Production DesignPeter K. Benson
• Costume DesignKaren Mann
• Makeup ArtistShauna O'Toole
• ProducerKevin M. Brennan
• Executive ProducerAlison Lee
• Supervising Sound EditorPaul Stanley
• Art DirectionGigi Barbes
• Executive ProducerCaroline Stevens
• Supervising Sound EditorJesse Pomeroy
• Sound DesignerAndy Hay
• ProducerBrett D. Thompson
• Executive ProducerRobert Gosling
• Executive ProducerMark Korshak
• Executive ProducerJohn Margetis
• ProducerGordon Bijelonic
• Executive ProducerEric Sherman

Themes & keywords

What it's about, really

• dark comedy
• apocalypse
• group of friends
• brunch
• bowling ball
• car radio
• absurd

Release history · US

When it landed

• Premiere2012-06-20R· Los Angeles Film Festival
• Theatrical2013-04-12R

Also known as

International titles

• Taka piękna katastrofaPL
• It's a disaster : have a nice end of daysSE