WHAT WE ALL WANT

Feature Film, In Development

In a dying suburban mall a mattress store employee sets out to investigate whether her husband, the mall's night security guard, is having an affair and in doing so discovers a hidden side to both the mall and herself.

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When the doors opened on Southdale Center in 1956, America was forever changed. Located in Edina, Minnesota, Southdale was America’s first introverted mall: the exterior walls were blank, and all the activity was focused on the inside. Upon its opening, TIME Magazine heralded the invention as a “pleasure-dome-with-parking.” I grew up in Burnsville, a suburb of Minneapolis, amidst a sea of aluminum siding, highways, and a swath of malls—one of my main hangouts as a teenager. Today the U.S. is home to an increasing number of “dying malls” in which a handful of stores are barely hanging on. The fleeting state of malls today, combined with my upbringing inspired me to write a story almost entirely set in a dying suburban mall.