Janney Reads "A Book of Common Prayer"

Allison Janney ("The West Wing," "The Way Way Back") has joined the indie film adaptation of author Joan Didion's  novel "A Book of Common Prayer" says Variety.

The story focuses on an American woman (Christina Hendricks) who arrives in a fictional Central American country on the verge of revolution in the hopes of being reunited with her fugitive 19-year-old daughter.

Janney plays an anthropologist who married into the ruling family of the country.

Campbell Scott also stars in the film as the husband of Hendricks's character. Hart Bochner will play the missing daughter's father.

Scott will direct the film from an adapted script by Joyce McKee and Rachel LeMin

Marcia Weiss is producing the film

Production begins in June.