This is a DVD full of madness, not mayhem. It plays out overnight in a greasy spoon of a restaurant somewhere in Los Angeles with flashbacks giving the supporting stories for the main characters, Hope (Heather Graham) and Will (Jeremy Sisto). Both give excellent performances with Graham as a laid back waitress who won’t take any more and Sisto who won’t take “no” for an answer.
The flashbacks provide us with their first meeting on the beach with Sisto’s come on approach by asking for a cigarette to their first sexual encounter on top of an apartment building and then into the world of drugs. At that time, all Graham wants to do is forget about her Midwest upbringing and make it big in music with her guitar which she constantly plays to entertain herself and Sisto.
She loses gigs because producers see the needle marks on her arms. She leaves her guitar, case and all in a tunnel somewhere in LA, snorts coke one last time, kicks Sisto out, starts then stops an affair with a young lady who is high on drugs, puts up with nonsense from two jerks in one booth and takes orders. Linda Hamilton gives her advice on how to get rich quick by doing the down and dirty routine as an escort, Tess Harper tells her that Sisto will return and he does.
A producer and director dine in and try to set up Heather for a movie deal all the while mentally thinking what they’ll do to her when they get her in bed. She’s thinking along the same line and plays along with the game and puts them both off. When Sisto returns, he has procured a gun, locks down the restaurant and begs Graham to leave with him. At gunpoint, she agrees to go, but only as his hostage.
As if things aren’t interesting enough, the cops arrive and threaten by microphone to enter the establishment if Sisto doesn’t surrender. He hollers he will kill someone if they try to enter. Good time to revert to another flashback with Graham and Sisto at her apartment with him using his head to knock on her apartment door. She opens the door, but won’t let him in. He wipes blood from his forehead and cries and he ends up in a ball on the floor.
The ending is still a ways off and I’ll keep you dangling. This has not been released yet and I know you’re dying to find out what happens. You’ll have to wait. I’m such a tease! It gets tense and the movie is exception. Director Alan White and Producer Jerry Wayne did an exceptional job putting this movie together. And, I commend Editor Jay Nelson for his work. The sound quality is excellent, no microphone shadows to be seen, no muffed dialogue (thank you, coach), and the music soundtrack is not invasive. Thumbs up on this one!
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