Country: USA
Year: 1999
Duration: 16'
Robert is reading the words "In God We Trust" on a quarter, when he gets pulverized into a limp flying fetal position by a speeding truck. Only moments into purgatory, he learns he is going to hell because he mowed the word "asshole" into his neighbor's lawn, shipped a box of vomit to his ex-girlfriend, and didn't get enough points in general. Fate gives Robert a second chance, however, and he escapes back to Earth. Now, he must wrap things up with his girlfriend, his dad, and his parakeet "Benny", as purgatory tries to kill him with everything they've got.
"I often find myself choosing my actions by how I will be judged in the end. This led me to thinking, 'Who judges?' and 'By what criteria do they judge?' 'Do they use computers?' 'Are they on the internet?' The more I thought about it, it seemed a little ridiculous that there would be a giant tallying system, kind of a bank, in which people worked all day sending people to their fate. I wanted to satire the world that I created in my head, by showing the man that beat the system" (Jason Reitman).
Biography
film director
Jason Reitman
Jason Reitman (Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1977) while attending USC, Jason Reitman made his fisrt short film Operation which was selected for the 1998 Sundance Film Festival. His second short, H@ was a production of the Fox movie channel. H@ premiered at South by Southwest 1999. He made is feature film debut with Thank You for Smoking (2005). He notably earned Academy Award nominations for directing Juno (2007) and Up in the Air (2009), the latter of which earned Reitman a Golden Globe Award, a WGA Award and a BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay.
FILMOGRAFIA
Operation (cm, 1998), H@ (cm, 1999), In God We Trust (cm, 2000), Gulp (cm, 2001), Uncle Sam (doc., cm, 2002), Consent (cm, 2004), Thank You for Smoking (id., 2005), Juno (id., 2007), Up in the Air (Tra le nuvole, 2009), Young Adult (2011), Labor Day (Un giorno come tanti, 2013), Men, Women and Children (2014), Roast Battle (cm, 2016), Tully (id., 2018), The Front Runner (id., 2018).
Cast
& Credits
Regia, soggetto e sceneggiatura: Jason Reitman.
Director of photography: Eric Steelberg.
Art director: Elizabeth Leonard.
Editor: Yanosh Cuglove.
Cast and characters: Richard Speight, Jr. (Robert), Jeff Witzke (Gil), Shelley Berman (Manny).
Production company: Watch Out For The Bears, 269 South Beverly Drive, # 225, 90212 Beverly Hills, USA, tel. +1-323-6561588, fax +1-323-8520499.
Foreign sales agent: Atom Films, 815 Western Avenue, Seattle, USA, tel. +1-206-2642735.
Director of photography: Eric Steelberg.
Art director: Elizabeth Leonard.
Editor: Yanosh Cuglove.
Cast and characters: Richard Speight, Jr. (Robert), Jeff Witzke (Gil), Shelley Berman (Manny).
Production company: Watch Out For The Bears, 269 South Beverly Drive, # 225, 90212 Beverly Hills, USA, tel. +1-323-6561588, fax +1-323-8520499.
Foreign sales agent: Atom Films, 815 Western Avenue, Seattle, USA, tel. +1-206-2642735.