CASTING
47 DAYS.

An outgoing documentary filmmaker whose curiosity, humor and need to preserve memories open Ethan up. The role carries the romance and its emotional consequences.

Suggested playing range, not an exact age requirement.

Ethan’s funny, practical cofounder and friend. He challenges Ethan’s need for control, then offers him a way back into ordinary life. The same role includes a later appearance after six years.

Character’s playing age as written in the screenplay.

Ethan’s AI: first a voice and a fleeting reflection, later a visible humanlike presence. She can explain patterns and the archive’s limits but does not experience Ethan’s grief.

The screenplay does not specify an exact age.

The owner of the Cobalt theater, facing its closure. Her account of her father and the building gives Emily’s documentary its emotional center.

Character’s playing age as written in the screenplay.

The Cobalt’s longtime projectionist: practical, proud of his old equipment and unimpressed by fashionable technology.

Character’s playing age as written in the screenplay.

A visitor evaluating Vantage’s traffic system. Skeptical questions become a startling reaction to what looks like proof that the system works.

The screenplay does not specify an exact age.

The host of Emily’s local documentary screening, opening the conversation after the film.

The screenplay does not specify an exact age.

A screening attendee who challenges whether an emotional moment in Emily’s documentary was too invasive.

The screenplay does not specify an exact age.

The off-screen café voice calling Emily’s name, turning Ethan’s uncertain search into a recognition.

The screenplay does not specify an exact age.

The other driver caught in the conflicting routes near Briar. This is a visible reaction and physical-performance part without scripted dialogue.

Suggested playing range, not an exact age requirement.

One member of the same young couple who crosses behind Ethan and Emily twice, with deliberate changes in wardrobe and the dog.

Suggested playing range, not an exact age requirement.

The woman in the repeated young couple, identified by the same twice-looped leash movement in both passes.

Suggested playing range, not an exact age requirement.

A featured screening attendee whom Ethan confidently misidentifies while Emily people-watches. She has no scripted line.

Suggested playing range, not an exact age requirement.

A featured park passerby used in Ethan and Emily’s people-watching joke. The part has no scripted dialogue.

Suggested playing range, not an exact age requirement.

An elderly barber sweeping an empty shop, seen in Emily’s documentary about disappearing local places.

Character’s playing age as written in the screenplay.

A cook turning off a restaurant sign, seen briefly in Emily’s documentary.

Suggested playing range, not an exact age requirement.

The seated audience for Emily’s outdoor documentary screening. This is a background group; the Host, questioning Audience Member and Therapist are separate parts.

The screenplay does not specify an exact age.

The neighborhood community gathering at the Cobalt for its final night, including friends, former employees and regular patrons.

The screenplay does not specify an exact age.

The dance-floor crowd around Ethan and Emily during their relationship montage.

Suggested playing range, not an exact age requirement.