Writer-director Hurt McDermott (Nightingale in a Music Box) extracts
a ton of fun from a great cast, sharp editing, and a witty, offbeat script.

--The Chicago Reader

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

1. Black Mail Press

 

Chicago Reader Review, April 2, 2010  

A philandering, middle-aged mope (Taylor Nichols), fired from his job as second-string film critic for a Chicago daily, plunges his savings into a doomed repertory cinema (portrayed by the late Three Penny in Lincoln Park). His dishy, tart-tongued wife (Kelly Hazen) intercepts a letter he's written on flameproof paper to their pretty young pastor (Lois Atkins) but mistakenly assumes it was meant for their child's nanny (Sara Krukowski). That barely begins to summarize the spiraling convolutions of this modestly budgeted video, whose daffy comic plot is nominally patterned after Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. Writer-director Hurt McDermott (Nightingale in a Music Box) extracts a ton of fun from a great cast, sharp editing, and a witty, offbeat script. 104 min. By Cliff Doerksen

To obtain a  screener or to arrange an interview with Hurt McDermott, Taylor Nichols, Andrzej Krukowski or anyone else from the production or for more info, please contact Kerri Noto at 312 952 7186.
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