25° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL

10 Items or Less

10 Items or Less

Country: USA
Year: 2006
Duration: 82'


A well-known actor who has not made a film for four years has agreed to consider doing an “indie film” about a manager in a low-rent supermarket. He asks to be dropped off at the market in Carson, a suburb of Los Angeles, so he can research his character. He’s fascinated by one of the checkers, Scarlet, a young woman from Spain, stuck at the ten items or less lane. The actor chats her up, and when her shift ends, he asks for a ride and he helps her prepare for a job interview. A most unexpected relationship blooms and each of them will discover that life still has the capacity to surprise.

“I wrote this just before I headed off to make Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, and after that film where I was in a soundstage environment for two years, I started watching a lot of Italian Neo-realist movies for mental therapy – and I realized I had written a gift for myself, where I could just go out with two great actors on the street, and shoot away.”

Biography

film director

Brad Silberling

(Washington, 1963) studied film directing at the UCLA Film School. He managed to start his career within the entertainment industry before completing his studies. In 1986 he got a job as a production assistant for a children’s television program. From there, he progressed to direct episodes of major television series (such as “Alfred Hitchcock Presents,” “L.A. Law” or “NYPD Blue”) before of his first feature-lenght film, Casper, in 1995. 10 Items or Less was the first movie in history to be made legally available for
download while it was still in theaters.

FILMOGRAFIA

«Alfred Hitchcock Presents» («Alfred Hitchcock presenta», TV, 1989), «Top of the Hill» (TV, 1989), «Doogie Howser, M.D.» (TV, 1989), «Cop Rock» (TV, 1990), «Brooklyn Bridge» (TV, 1991), «Civil Wars» (TV, 1991), «The Antagonists» («Divisi dalla legge», TV, 1991), «L.A. Law» («Avvocati a Los Angeles», TV, 1992), «Great Scott!» (TV, 1992), «The Byrds of Paradise» (TV, 1994), Casper (id., 1995), «NYPD Blue» (id., TV, 1993-96), City of Angels (La città degli angeli, 1998), «Felicity» (TV, 1998), «Judging Amy» («Giudice Amy», TV, 2001), Moonlight Mile (Moonlight Mile - Voglia di ricominciare, 2002), Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events (Lemony Snicket - Una serie di sfortunati eventi, 2004), 10 Items or Less (id., 2006).

Cast

& Credits

regia, sceneggiatura/director, screenplay Brad Silberling
fotografia/director of photography Phedon Papamichael
scenografia/set design Denise Pizzini
costumi/costume design Isis Mussenden
montaggio/film editor Michael Kahn
musica/music Antonio Pinto
suono/sound Bob Anderson
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters Morgan Freeman (lui/him), Paz Vega (Scarlet), Jonah Hill (il ragazzo/the kid), Alexandra Berardi (la donna delle pulizie/mop lady), Bobby Cannavale (Bobby), Anne Dudek (la cassiera/checker), Jennifer Echols (Tracy), Leonardo Nam (il ragazzo/kid), Scott Norris (il membro dei Bison/Bison member), Kumar Pallana (Lee), Jim Parsons (il ragazzo alla reception/receptionist), Danny DeVito (Big D)
produttore/producer Julie Lynn, Lori McCreary, Brad Silberling
produzione/production Reveal Entertainment, Revelations Entertainment Production
coproduttore/coproducer Kelly Thomas
coproduzione/coproduction Mockingbird Pictures
distribuzione,vendita all’estero/distribution, world sales DNC Entertainment
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