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Dakota Fanning & Helen Hunt to star in Please Stand By

Dakota Fanning and Helen Hunt have boarded director Ben Lewin’s road-trip drama “Please Stand By”.

Fanning will play a brilliant young woman with autism, who escapes her care home with the goal of delivering her script to a Hollywood competition. Hunt plays her no-nonsense carer who goes after her.

Michael Golamco penned the script. Producers are Daniel Dubiecki and Lara Alameddine of Allegiance Theater.

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