Crawford finds Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding

Gossip Girl‘s Chace Crawford is the latest to jump onto the cast of Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding. The strangely comma-induced title for a film is directed by Bruce Beresford, who’s previous work includes Tender Mercies and Driving Miss Daisy. The young actor is part of a cast that contains Jane Fonda and Catherine Keener.

Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding tells the story of Diane (Keener), an uptight New York City lawyer who is in desperate need of an escape after her husband asks for a divorce. Along with her two children, she takes refuge at her estranged hippie mother Grace’s (Fonda) farmhouse, where she is exposed to a motley crew of free thinkers. What was meant to be a stress-free getaway quickly turns into a reminder of why Diane escaped her mother’s hippie lifestyle in the first place, as the reunion forces her, her children, and Grace to find peace with each other and more importantly with themselves. Crawford will star as a war-protesting butcher who catches the eye of Diane’s politically active and intellectual daughter (CS!).

Christina Mengert and Joseph Muszynski wrote the script with Lauren Munsch, Jonathan Burkhart, Claude and Brice Dal Farra set as producers on the feature. The film is set to be released sometime in 2011 with filming set to begin later on this year in New York’s Hudson Valley.