Newly minted Phase 4 Films has acquired U.S. rights to "
The Poker House," the directorial debut of thesp Lori Petty, and set a July 17 theatrical release.
"
The Poker House," starring Selma Blair, David Alan Grier and Jennifer Lawrence, is a portrait of life in a poor small town in Iowa in 1976. Petty and Grier co-wrote the script.