June Squibb Joins Alex Borstein In Indie Dramedy ‘Turn The Lights Back On’

EXCLUSIVE: Academy Award nominee June Squibb (Eleanor the Great) is set to star opposite Emmy winner Alex Borstein in Turn the Lights Back On, an indie dramedy that we announced in June.

Based on true events and inspired by experiences many families faced during the Covid era, Turn the Lights Back On centers on a family forced to confront decades of unresolved tensions while facing an unprecedented moment in modern history. The film, marking the feature debut of writer-director Dave Pantano, is described as being in the spirit of titles such as Little Miss Sunshine, August: Osage County and The Brothers McMullen.

Borstein plays Emma, an exhausted elementary school teacher grappling with perimenopause, family responsibility, and the impossible decision to place her aging mother into assisted living just as the world begins to shut down.

Squibb will play Emma’s mother Mary, a woman clinging to any feelings of control in her life that she can as she ages, her faculties decline, and her dementia worsens.

Producers on Turn the Lights Back On include Dino Maglaris, Harrison Chiu, and Addie Scott Irwin of Salado Pictures, plus Borstein and Marni Rosenzweig of The Rosenzweig Group.

Oscar-nominated for her work in Alexander Payne’s Nebraska, Squibb recently garnered critical acclaim for her work in the indies Eleanor the Great, directed by Scarlett Johansson, and Thelma from Josh Margolin. Up next, she’ll also be seen in the fourth and final season of Showtime’s Yellowjackets. She is repped by BRS/Gage.