I don't understand how I was able to sit through such an amazingly amateurish film. What a bunch of lucky bastards to be able to work with an all-star cast, and yet provide them with such a poorly written script. Only Frank Gorshin came close to portraying a belivable character with the lines written for him -- that's Frank, baby! As for the others, I was shocked that noone was allowed to improvise anything. Perhaps everything was done in one take? That would explain it since the budget could not have been more than $50K.
The family that made the film seemed to have suffered from a lack of constructive criticism during production (much like what George Lucas may have expirienced with his latest trilogy). Noone had the guts to tell them that the film, in a word, sucked.
There were a few shots in the film, however, where there really was some cinematography (in the church for instance). The worst shot however involved a woman using a garden rake to rake what appears to be snow. Which is another thing! It's Spring in Buffalo. There's still some snow on the ground, and they try to show this by blatantly placing clumps of "snow" directly on the steps of a building -- the one place where there would NOT be any snow where snow-shovelling is an artform.
AVOID THIS FILM AT ALL COSTS. It is nothing like the enjoyable independent films: My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Clerks, etc... These little gems had something called a great script.
The family that made the film seemed to have suffered from a lack of constructive criticism during production (much like what George Lucas may have expirienced with his latest trilogy). Noone had the guts to tell them that the film, in a word, sucked.
There were a few shots in the film, however, where there really was some cinematography (in the church for instance). The worst shot however involved a woman using a garden rake to rake what appears to be snow. Which is another thing! It's Spring in Buffalo. There's still some snow on the ground, and they try to show this by blatantly placing clumps of "snow" directly on the steps of a building -- the one place where there would NOT be any snow where snow-shovelling is an artform.
AVOID THIS FILM AT ALL COSTS. It is nothing like the enjoyable independent films: My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Clerks, etc... These little gems had something called a great script.