Breakthrough Films & Television has signed up Rosanna Arquette to top-line The Signs of Living from director Gail Harvey, the indie TV producer’s latest movie outing.

Based on a script by Divana Ippolitti, the drama will star Arquette as the live-in girlfriend of an aging rock star, and a popular inspirational speaker with her own TV show.

The former band member befriends a teen in a not-so-typical dysfunctional family living next door as he attempts to escape old rock star habits.

Besides Arquette, there’s no word on additional casting for The Signs of Living.

Breakthrough movie division executive producer Marina Cordoni is stick-handling the indie Canadian drama, which will bypass Telefilm Canada to fill out its projected $2 million budget with a domestic broadcast license fee and U.S. and European pre-sales.

Cordoni told Playback Daily that Breakthrough toppers Ira Levy and Peter Williamson are slowly and surely branching out into feature film production on modest budgets and projects that tap Canadian talent at home and in Los Angeles, in addition to U.S. star-wattage like Arquette.

“Don’t put all your money immediately into movies with huge budgets, that’s a huge gamble,” Cordoni said of Breakthrough’s production strategy on the movie side.

Breakthrough last year produced two movies, Penelope Buitenhuis’ A Wake, and the Spencer Rice-starring mockumentary Confessions of a Porn Addict.

The greenlight for The Signs of Living, to be shopped at the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival, comes as Cordoni prepares two additional projects, a family film and a genre pic, for unveiling at the American Film Market in the fall.