June Squibb as Gladys and Stacy Keach as Will in a scene from “Lost & Found in Cleveland.”Double G Films
SOURCE: Cleveland.com | Joey Morona
March 31, 2025
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Clevelanders showed up in a big way for “Lost & Found in Cleveland.” The independent film sold nearly 2,500 tickets to its Midwest premiere at the Cleveland International Film Festival on Sunday.
That set a record for the largest audience for a single screening in CIFF history and is also the biggest crowd to see a film at Playhouse Square since the Playhouse Square Foundation was established in 1973.
The previous festival record was held by the world premiere of “Believeland,” which drew 2,049 people to the Connor Palace at CIFF40 in 2016, cleveland.com reported at the time.
Shot entirely in the city in 2023, “Lost & Found in Cleveland” is a dramedy about five people whose lives intersect when America’s favorite antiques appraisal show comes to town. The movie tells the stories of a mailman (Dennis Haysbert) with a collection of seemingly ordinary vases; a professor (Santino Fontana) trying to unload an embarrassing but potentially valuable collection; a Korean War veteran (Stacy Keach) with some interesting plates; a socialite (Liza Weil) who brings in a statue with a dubious backstory; and a precocious nine-year-old boy (Benjamin Steinhauser) with an old letter that could change his life.
