Country: USA
Year: 1997
Duration: 23'
A young boy, possessing an ability to predict the outcome of horse races, enlists his uncle in the family gardener, in an attempts to rescue his mother from debt. D.H. Lawrence's classic story is updated to contemporary Los Angeles.
Biography
film director
Michael Almereyda
Michael Almereyda (Overland Park, Kansas, USA, 1959) after a stint as a screenwriter, debuted in directing in 1987 with the short A Hero of Our Time. He then realized Twister and in 1992 made Another Girl Another Planet, which won the Golden Gate Award at the International Film Festival of San Francisco. In 1995 he and Amy Hobby co-directed At Sundance. The Rocking Horse Winner, which was presented in Torino in 1997, won the Award for Best Short Film at the Hamptons International Film Festival that same year. In 2000 he directed Hamlet, with Sam Shepard, a fundamental encounter even for This So-Called Disaster (2003). In 2002, Happy Here and Now won the Jury Prize at the South by Southwest Film Festival.
FILMOGRAFIA
A Hero of Our Time (cm, 1985), Twister (1989), Another Girl Another Planet (1992), Aliens (cm, 1993), Nadja (id., 1994), At Sundance (coregia/codirector Amy Hobby, doc., 1995), The Rocky Horse Winner (1997), Trance (1998), Hamlet (Hamlet 2000, 2000), Happy Here and Now (2002), This So-Called Disaster: Sam Shepard Directs the Late Henry Moss (2003), Deadwood (ep. E.B. Was Left Out; Deadwood, ep. L’esclusione di E.B., TV, 2005), William Egglestone in the Real World (doc., 2005), New Orleans Mon Amour (2008).
Cast
& Credits
Director and screenplay: Michael Almereyda.
Director of photography: Patrick Rousseau.
Editor: Steve Hamilton.
Music: Simon Fisher Turner.
Cast and characters: Eric Stoltz (zio joe), Jesse Forrestal (Jesse), Paula Malcomson (madre di Jesse), Walter Benitez (joe, il giardiniere).
Production company: Spin Cycle Post, 12 West 27 Street, 6th floor, New York, New York 10001, USA, tel. +1-2126792720, fax +1-212-6792730.
Director of photography: Patrick Rousseau.
Editor: Steve Hamilton.
Music: Simon Fisher Turner.
Cast and characters: Eric Stoltz (zio joe), Jesse Forrestal (Jesse), Paula Malcomson (madre di Jesse), Walter Benitez (joe, il giardiniere).
Production company: Spin Cycle Post, 12 West 27 Street, 6th floor, New York, New York 10001, USA, tel. +1-2126792720, fax +1-212-6792730.