THIRD PERSON Trailer Stars Liam Neeson, Mila Kunis And James Franco

Watch the new trailer for writer/director Paul Haggis’ THIRD PERSON.

MICHAEL (Liam Neeson) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning fiction author who has holed himself up in a hotel suite in Paris to finish his latest book. He recently left his wife, ELAINE (Kim Basinger), and is having a tempestuous affair with ANNA (Olivia Wilde), an ambitious young journalist who wants to write and publish fiction.

At the same time, SCOTT (Adrien Brody), a shady American businessman, is in Italy to steal designs from fashion houses. Hating everything Italian, Scott wanders into the “Café Americano” in search of something familiar to eat. There, he meets MONIKA (Moran Atias), a beautiful Roma woman, who is about to be reunited with her young daughter. When the money she has saved to pay her daughter’s smuggler is stolen, Scott feels compelled to help. They take off together for a dangerous town in Southern Italy, where Scott starts to suspect that he is the patsy in an elaborate con game.

THIRD PERSON tells three stories of love, passion, trust and betrayal, in a multi-strand story line reminiscent of Paul Haggis’s earlier Oscar-winning film CRASH. The tales play out in New York, Paris and Rome: three couples who appear to have nothing related but share deep commonalities: lovers and estranged spouses, children lost and found.

As Haggis puts it: “In any relationship there is always a third person; perhaps not romantically, perhaps not even consciously, but present in some form.” At its heart, THIRD PERSON is much more than a collection of love stories—it is a mystery, a puzzle in which truth is revealed in glimpses, and clues are caught by the corner of the eye—and nothing is truly what it seems.

Haggis first conceived the idea for THIRD PERSON shortly after wrapping The Next Three Days, his last feature film (2010).

The director voices satisfaction for every bit of challenge, irony, and complexity wrapped up in THIRD PERSON. “It’s a bit of a contradiction for me: on the one hand, it’s a very personal, intimate relationship drama that I wrestled with writing for years, and on the flipside, it had me shepherding a dazzling, high-profile ensemble cast through all these glorious locations at a breathless clip. It meant giving three different stories three distinct visual looks, and yet bringing it all back together as a unified whole. I’m a very lucky man and filmmaker to have had the talents of such a cast and crew to help carry it off.”

The film had it’s premiere at the 2013 Toronto Film Festival and will screen at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 24th.

Sony Pictures Classics will release the THIRD PERSON in NY and LA on June 20th.