The first film, a romantic and supernatural fantasy drama film, was written and directed by Akiva Goldsman, and based on Mark Helprin's novel "Winter's Tale". Bomer plays the young father of Colin Farrell's character. "Winter's Tale" received negative reviews. His second release of the year was in the black space fiction comedy "Space Station 76" by Jack Plotnick, alongside Liv Tyler and Patrick Wilson. James Rocchi of "The Wrap" said; "all the performers are game" and the performance of Bomer; "as a melancholy engineer with a prosthetic hand that looks like a Nintendo Power Glove".