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'The Quitter' movie makers showed perseverance
'The Quitter' movie makers showed perseverance

Director Matthew Bonifacio and his Bethlehem-born wife Julianna Gelinas Bonifacio discovered the hard way that simultaneously planning a wedding and shooting a movie can be a demanding proposition. One day tensions ran so high on the set of the baseball and relationship drama "The Quitter" that the pair nearly quit each other — professionally and personally. It all started when Matthew, the film's director and star, decided to shuffle the shooting schedule around and spring a particularly demanding scene on Julianna, who co-stars with Matthew in the film. "I had been thinking about how to get into the headspace for this moment, and then Matthew said he...