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"   The poster for Janie Jones.  It sounds like the set of David M. Rosenthal&amp;#039;s film, Janie Jones, was akin to a Charlie Kaufman movie. In some ways, Janie Jones imitates life and in others, the actors&amp;#039; lives imitate Janie Jones. Based on Rosenthal&amp;#039;s real experience\u2014meeting his daughter for the first time when she was eleven and he was thirty\u2014the film follows Abigail Breslin&amp;#039;s character, Janie, after she&amp;#039;s abandoned by her ex-groupie mother (Elizabeth Shu) and abruptly transferred to her washed-up, rock star father, Ethan, whom she&amp;#039;s never met. Janie goes on the road with her father and eventually finds her singing voice which turns her into both her father&amp;#039;s stage partner and his salvation. Alessandro Nivola plays Ethan and says, &amp;quot;[David] had his daughter on the set for about two thirds of the shoot so during dinners and what not after work, stories, details, specific details about their first encounters and early days of getting to know each other started to just dribble out. It had a big impact on me because it was so heartbreaking and wonderful and sad\u2014just full of such complicated emotion.&amp;quot; As for Breslin, the Little Miss Sunshine stunner faced a very different challenge: singing. Breslin and Nivola performed their own vocals in film and while Nivola&amp;#039;s sung on screen before, like in Laurel Canyon, Breslin was terrifed. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;d only ever really sung at a church Christmas party,&amp;quot; she said. &amp;quot;It was incredibly nerve-racking to go to the studio. Alessandro&amp;#039;s such a great singer and guitar player, which made it even more nerve-racking. I was kind of nervous that, you know, I would get there and start singing into the mic and they&amp;#039;d fire me.&amp;quot; But don&amp;#039;t feel too bad for Breslin, she may have found her other calling. &amp;quot;I ended up liking the music aspect because it kind of made me want to try out more music. I taught myself guitar afterward and took more voice lessons and now I&amp;#039;m actually in a band with my best friend.&amp;quot; The actress and her band mate, Cassidy Reiff, have already started performing and recently played an event for her upcoming star-studded film, New Years Eve. The duo released Cabb&amp;#039;s first single, &amp;quot;Well Wishes&amp;quot; online and Breslin says, &amp;quot;when I&amp;#039;m on stage, I try to channels a mix of Ingrid Michaelson, Adele, and Stevie Nicks.&amp;quot; Janie Jones opens in theaters today.       "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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