Special Report: Stephanie Laing on Tow (2025)
The Projection Booth
The Projection Booth
4.6 • 709 Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Amanda Ogle (Rose Byrne) is living in her 1991 Toyota Camry on the streets of Seattle when the car — her only lifeline — gets impounded, leaving her with a bill for $21,634 she has no hope of paying. What follows is battle for dignity against an indifferent bureaucracy, with support from a pro bono lawyer (Dominic Sessa) and a shelter manager (Octavia Spencer) who believes in her. Laing, a veteran of Palm Royale and Physical, brings an empathetic eye to the material without flinching from the grinding reality of homelessness and addiction.
Mike and Laing discuss adapting a real person's story, the challenge of making systemic failure feel intimate, and what drew her from television to the feature format.
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| 0:00.0 | There are times in life when you just have to wait and see. |
| 0:03.0 | Like waiting to see if your team will finally win the title. |
| 0:07.0 | Waiting nine long months to see if it's a boy or a girl. |
| 0:12.0 | Or waiting to see if the sun will shine on your long awaited holiday. |
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| 0:22.3 | Experience life as it's meant to be seen. |
| 0:24.8 | Book your free virtual consultation at octagra.com forward slash ICL. |
| 0:30.6 | Hey, this is Jason Kleberg from the Force Five podcast, a show that forces a guest to come up with a movie- top five list topic and then we reveal our picks on air. |
| 0:40.1 | Top five heist films, top five tearjerkers, top five movie dogs. |
| 0:44.1 | Every show you'll be asking yourself, what would be on my list? |
| 0:47.9 | Guests include directors, screenwriters, actors, podcasters, musicians, authors, and even a professional wrestler. |
| 0:54.1 | Subscribe to the Force Five podcast and you won't just be a listener, you'll be a list nerd. |
| 0:58.6 | The Force Five podcast, available wherever you are listening now. |
| 1:02.2 | There are times in life when you just have to wait and see. |
| 1:06.1 | Like waiting to see if your team will finally win the title. |
| 1:10.8 | Waiting nine long months to see if it's will finally win the title. |
| 1:13.6 | Waiting nine long months to see if it's a boy or a girl. |
| 1:18.2 | Or waiting to see if the sun will shine on your long-awaited holiday. |
| 1:24.4 | Luckily, with an Evo-ICL procedure at Optegra, you don't have to wait to see. |
| 1:27.0 | Experience life as it's meant to be seen. |
| 1:29.2 | Book your free virtual consultation at octagra.com forward slash ICL. Hold your ears folks. It's showtime. People pay good money to see this |
| 1:42.8 | movie. When they go out to a theater, they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and no monsters in the projection booth. |
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