And although "Side Man" may focus on a family, it also boasts the unusual backdrop of jazz, which, said its American co-producer Ron Kastner, could work on its behalf.
And while the political campaigners trudge to places like Des Moines and Manchester, N.H., the automakers compete to fly journalists to exotic settings that will provide unusual backdrops for photography: BMW's Land Rover showed off its Discovery sport utility vehicle by shuttling writers and photographers to the Gobi Desert in Mongolia.
Despite, or perhaps because of, this backdrop, an unusual event recently took place in Amman, Jordan.
It was a win achieved in an unusual Goodison Park atmosphere, played out against the backdrop of Everton potentially offering rivals Liverpool a way back into the title race if they could continue their recent outstanding record against City.
Rural Ireland is the backdrop for this story of an unusual man named Pigeon and a woman dumped on his doorstep.
The backdrop for this season has been an unusual one because of the financial issues consuming the team's owners, who, among other things, are being sued for $1 billion by the trustee for the victims of Bernard L. Madoff's Ponzi scheme.
"The clean ones are Russian". Against a backdrop of simmering tensions, Dygalo led journalists on an unusual wide-ranging visit to Russia's Black Sea Fleet this month, complete with unprecedented access to the flagship Moskva, a guided missile cruiser.
If the film has an unusual 3-D look, it's because of the virtual sets: painted backdrops inserted digitally.
With the backdrop of a recession and rising unemployment, it might seem like an unusual time to be asking ourselves how we in business can do more to engage with disadvantaged groups, such as recovering drug users or the homeless.
