This film is just plain awful. Down to the less than amateurish acting, which is 99% off--just like the soundtrack! On the copy that I rented, the audio and video were not synched through a great deal of the movie. And the track was done at Skywalker Sound? How odd. This film has the look and feel of a school project for an Introduction to Film Making 101 at a community college. The only presentable acting is by Bryan Johnson himself. Hey, Bryan, stick to acting and leave directing to someone else.
Some of the highlights of this bad film: the waitress in the "posh" restaurant (looked like a Dennys to me) who threw the burgers down in front of the two male leads. Sorry, but in real life, waitresses who act that way don't wait for long! The senior in the nursing home whose one line "How rude!" is lost. She obviously isn't an actor. Hey, Bryan, as a director you should have cut the line or something. And the male lead says at one point in the film that he had wanted to put his show on cable access but he couldn't afford it. Oh, come one! Producing on cable access is too expensive? Where on this planet?
And casting: it just didn't make sense that the white-bread Harriet Nelson housewife with her bratty Partridge Family kid had the party-goer husband as a husband. It just didn't synch up somehow. So, maybe he married her for a coverup? But nothing like that was every hinted at. I simply couldn't imagine two so un-alike people ever getting together in this world. I couldn't imagine him, his two "sons" (were they REALLY? or was that some kind of perverted humor), wife and daughter in any kind of a family situation. The wife does refer to the two younger men as her husband's "boys" or "sons" at one point, I believe, but somehow the types just didn't line up. I'm also, quick frankly, not sure what the relationship between the junkyard owner and the attendant was. The owner refers to the attendant as "son." Was he being metaphorical or what? If you care to waste your money, rent the film and see what I mean.
I was angered by the fact that I spent money renting this movie, and to me that is a key indicator of whether or not this movie should even exist. I don't know what I would have done if I had spent full price to see this bomb in a movie house. And it's really a shame, too, because the core of the script is a good idea. More time should have been spent at the drawing board perhaps?
Some of the highlights of this bad film: the waitress in the "posh" restaurant (looked like a Dennys to me) who threw the burgers down in front of the two male leads. Sorry, but in real life, waitresses who act that way don't wait for long! The senior in the nursing home whose one line "How rude!" is lost. She obviously isn't an actor. Hey, Bryan, as a director you should have cut the line or something. And the male lead says at one point in the film that he had wanted to put his show on cable access but he couldn't afford it. Oh, come one! Producing on cable access is too expensive? Where on this planet?
And casting: it just didn't make sense that the white-bread Harriet Nelson housewife with her bratty Partridge Family kid had the party-goer husband as a husband. It just didn't synch up somehow. So, maybe he married her for a coverup? But nothing like that was every hinted at. I simply couldn't imagine two so un-alike people ever getting together in this world. I couldn't imagine him, his two "sons" (were they REALLY? or was that some kind of perverted humor), wife and daughter in any kind of a family situation. The wife does refer to the two younger men as her husband's "boys" or "sons" at one point, I believe, but somehow the types just didn't line up. I'm also, quick frankly, not sure what the relationship between the junkyard owner and the attendant was. The owner refers to the attendant as "son." Was he being metaphorical or what? If you care to waste your money, rent the film and see what I mean.
I was angered by the fact that I spent money renting this movie, and to me that is a key indicator of whether or not this movie should even exist. I don't know what I would have done if I had spent full price to see this bomb in a movie house. And it's really a shame, too, because the core of the script is a good idea. More time should have been spent at the drawing board perhaps?