Forum of Independents - Competition 2003 / Bug / USA 2002
Silverlake, Los Angeles: a small boy steps on a bug and kills it. All events have their consequences: the death of the insect sets off a chain reaction, causing confrontation between various characters in this bizarre comedy.
Silverlake, Los Angeles: a small boy steps on a bug and kills it. All events have their consequences: the death of the insect sets off a chain reaction, causing confrontation and collision between various characters in this bizarre comedy. Two lovers are lost and find themselves again, the owner of a Chinese restaurant, hounded by health inspectors, suffers a terrible end, a person trying to commit sucide is saved, and, in the nick of time, an important spare part reaches a plane waiting to take off. One joke follows another in quick succession in this fast-moving gag machine, which might be seen as a successful cinematic formulation of the chaos theory.
89 min / Color, 35 mm
Director Matt Manfredi, Phil Hay
/ Screenplay Matt Manfredi
/ Dir. of Photography Scott Kevan
/ Music Theodore Shapiro
/ Editor John Binninger
/ Producer Lysa Hayland, Kate Margolis, Brian Gerber
/ Production Hayland/Margolis Films
/ Cast Brian Cox, Jamie Kennedy, Sarah Paulson, John Carroll Lynch, Christina Kirk
/ Contact Curb Entertainment
www: www.curbentertainment.com
Matt Manfredi (Palos Verdes, California) is a graduate of the American Film Institute. Phil Hay grew up in Ohio and graduated from the University of California. Manfredi and Hay co-wrote Crazy/Beautiful, which was released in the US in 2001, and The Tuxedo with Jackie Chan, released in 2002. Bug is their feature co-directing debut.
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