"For indie-film fans, it was another Sundance Saturday night in Park City, Utah. As they filed into the venerable Eccles Theatre for the premiere of 'Cyrus,' it was cold and it was damp, but there was a buzz in the air, the kind that always comes with a world premiere.

For Mark and Jay Duplass -- the Metairie-raised indie-film darlings who wrote and directed the film, their first studio-backed project -- it was something different entirely. For them, it was emotional torture."