When a Hollywood producer acquires the rights to adapt Ross McElwee’s 1986 breakthrough SHERMAN’S MARCH into a work of fiction, his twenty-year-old son Adrian sees a chance for his father to finally reach a wider audience. As the adaptation stalls, Adrian gets swept into a deepening drug addiction. Reflecting on a lifetime behind the camera, REMAKE captures Ross' own effort to remix and remake the movie that Adrian never got to finish.
