A Talk With Daniel Housman
A few weeks ago, just prior to the theatrical release of The Treatment, Past the Popcorn Managing Editor Greg Wright talked over the phone with Daniel Housman, the film’s screenwriter. Seattle publicists were eager to promote Housman’s local connection: Housman worked for several years as a journalist with The Stranger, one of the city’s primary alternative weeklies.
Housman’s film is an adaptation from a novel, and tells the very direct story of a New York City school teacher’s struggle to find a meaningful adult relationship. His therapist has tried for years to help him get past his arrested development — and abruptly decides to “end the treatment.” But Jake Singer’s treatment really isn’t over.
The film is being released on DVD October 9.
Wright talked with Housman about the differences between Seattle and New York, and about how the screenwriter played middle-man between a book author and director with very different ideas about the world.
