Flashback to the ‘90s with No Alternative, starring Harry Hamlin, Kathryn Erbe, up-and-comers Michaela Cavazos and Conor Proft, Chloe Levine (TVs “The Defenders”), and Aria Shahghasemi (TVs “Legacies”). Directed by William Dickerson and based on his book of the same name, No Alternative is a teen drama that drills a hole into the world of suburban American teenagers in the early ‘90s and is set against a backdrop steeped in grunge and punk rock music. No Alternative is Dickerson’s fourth feature film, the others being Detour, The Mirror and Don’t Look Back.
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- 3/29/2019
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The critical success of 2010′s Buried didn’t exactly cause a wave of claustrophobic copycats, but a few similarly structured films found their way into production in the past few years. Wrecked saw Adrien Brody trapped in his car after an accident, and Stephen Dorff was stuffed in a trunk (hurray!) for Brake. All three films, for better or worse, had storylines “outside” the single location (car, coffin) that offered additional narrative momentum beyond a simple survival story. Director/co-writer William Dickerson‘s feature debut, Detour, forgoes that additional layer to focus almost exclusively on one man trapped in a confined space and desperate to escape. Is that enough to keep viewers’ attention for ninety minutes? Yes. And no. And yes. Jackson (Neil Hopkins) awakens at the wheel of his car with the engine stalled and the airbag deployed. It’s pitch black outside his windows, but what he mistakes at first for nightfall is in fact...
- 3/27/2013
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
I graduated from the American Film Institute's Directing Program in 2006 with a handful of scripts and a short film. It was not the best time to be breaking into the business. Despite AFI's stellar reputation, I was entering the work force at the beginning of the writer's strike -- I couldn't sell a script, I could barely get a meeting, and I certainly couldn't get a job directing. After a year and a half of flirting with Hollywood development deals and screenplay options, my writing partner, Dwight Moody, came up...
- 3/26/2013
- by William Dickerson
- The Wrap
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