No matter how many gifting suites, D-list “celebrities” and/or head-splitting parties the malevolent forces of modern commerce may stuff into the wintry idyll of Park City over the next week, we’ll always have the movies. And as usual, “we” also means studios and distributors with money to burn and release slates to fill. Let the Sundance bidding wars begin! “This year’s Sundance Film Festival will be the biggest buyer’s market ever,” writes Steve Pond at TheWrap, and whether or not his prediction checks out, tires will be kicked and deals will be made — perhaps as soon as the credits roll on tonight’s openers The Queen of Versailles, Hello I Must Be Going , Wish You Were Here and Searching for Sugar Man . But with apologies to those films and other buzzy titles like Spike Lee’s Red Hook Summer , Stephen Frears’s Lay the Favorite , Julie Delpy’s 2 Days in New York and the hip anti-rom-com Save the Date — and in grand Movieline tradition — here are five others likeliest to have buyers fanning themselves with their checkbooks. [Plot descriptions reprinted from the Sundance 2012 Festival Guide ]
