Country: USA
Year: 1984
Duration: 33'
Henry, or rather Ned, wants to leave his home town to travel the world or to look up a girlfriend. From the moment he wants to climb aboard the train, he is prevented or delayed by people from his surroundings. A friend has a car crash, a girl he knows is unhappy with her husband and tries to seduce Ned, several youths decide that, before he gets on board the train, he should be beaten up.
Biography
film director
Hal Hartley
Hal Hartley was born in 1959 and grew up in the suburbs outside New York City. He attended art school for one year (1978-79) in Boston. He attended the State University of New York at Purchase Film School from 1980 to 1984. He moved to New York City after graduation and completed three short films between then and 1988 when he made his first feature film, The Unbelievable Truth. He lives and maintains his production company, True Fiction Pictures, in New York City.
FILMOGRAFIA
The Unbelievable Truth (1989), Trust (1990), Ambition (cm, 1991), Theory of Achievement (cm, 1991), Surviving Desire (cm, 1991), Simple Men (1992), Amateur (1994), NYC 3/94 (video, cm, 1994), Opera (cm, 1994), Flirt (1995).
Cast
& Credits
Director, screenplay and editor: Hal Hartley.
Director of photography: Michael Spiller.
Sound: James Coleman.
Cast: Ricky Ludwig, Leo Gosse, Janine Erickson, Karen Sillas, Bob Gosse, George Feaster, Pamela Stewart, David Troup.
Director of Production: Hal Hartley.
Produzione e vendita all'estero: True Fiction Pictures, 12 West 27th St., New York, NY 10001, tel. 2126844284, fax 2126866109.
Director of photography: Michael Spiller.
Sound: James Coleman.
Cast: Ricky Ludwig, Leo Gosse, Janine Erickson, Karen Sillas, Bob Gosse, George Feaster, Pamela Stewart, David Troup.
Director of Production: Hal Hartley.
Produzione e vendita all'estero: True Fiction Pictures, 12 West 27th St., New York, NY 10001, tel. 2126844284, fax 2126866109.