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April 02, 2012

LIPINSKI TO PLAY YOUNG BROLIN FOR 'LABOR DAY'

LabordayEXCLUSIVE: After playing a young Tommy Lee Jones in MEN IN BLACK 3, Josh Brolin is getting his own fresh-faced doppelganger, as SUITS thesp Tom Lipinski is in talks to play a younger version of Brolin in Jason Reitman's LABOR DAY, Variety's Jeff Sneider reports. Pic is an adaptation of Joyce Maynard's novel of the same name. Reitman is writing and directing the film, which follows Frank Chambers (Brolin), an escaped convict who seeks shelter with a depressed single mom (Kate Winslet) and her teen son over Labor Day weekend. Lipinski will appear in flashbacks as young Frank, who returns from Vietnam and promptly marries his hometown sweetheart, only to find that she's no longer the innocent teenage girl he left behind.

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