Jam (film)
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Jam is a 2006
drama film
written by Craig E. Serling and Nicole Lonner and produced by Dianne Burnett for Burnett Entertainment
in association with Thanksgiving Films. Directed by Serling as his first feature film
, the film is the feature-length version of a short film by the same name that he shot in 2004. Starring Elizabeth Bogush
, Dan Byrd
, Julie Claire
, and David DeLuise
, Jam premiered at the Vail Film Festival
on April 1, 2006, aired on television on the Starz! TV channel
, and was released on DVD
on July 3, 2007, by the Starz!
distribution branch of Anchor Bay Entertainment
.
. The script for Jam was completed in 2003, and after obtaining financing, Serling shot the concept as a short film in 2004, completing principal photography in 2-1/2 days, and making the film's debut at the The Other Venice Film Festival in 2005. The filmmaker found that shooting it as a short before shooting it as a feature allowed him to hone the script and concept to better create a marketable project. After obtaining financing for the feature-length version, Serling shot it over a 15-day period in 2006. The feature length film made festival rounds before being licensed for release through Starz!
, airing first on their TV channel
and then being released on DVD through Anchor Bay Entertainment.
, Ted (William Forsythe
) and Josh (Dan Byrd
) are out for an afternoon drive in the country. When a dog darts across the road, Ted slams on the brakes and is struck from behind by Lorraine (Marianne Jean-Baptiste
), a cellist on her way to a performance gig. The impact shoves Ted's vehicle into a power pole, which falls across the road and drops electrically charged lines, blocking traffic on the narrow two-lane rural highway. As they and other travelers are now stuck, strangers emerge from their cars and become unusual companions while awaiting the hazard to be cleared.
Dale (Jeffrey Dean Morgan
), is a divorcé spending his Father's Day with his children, Robert (Skyler Gisondo
) and Brianna (Marissa Blanchard). Amy (Amanda Detmer
) is enroute to her own wedding with her friends Stephanie (Amanda Foreman
) and Jen (Elizabeth Bogush
) along for support. Lilac (Gina Torres
) is a lesbian
hippie who moves among the other stranded motorists seeking help for her very pregnant partner Rose (Mariah O'Brien
). She is hassled by Gary (Jonathan Silverman
) and Judy (Julie Claire
), a yuppie
couple who have been bickering over the fact that they have been unable to conceive a child. In a stolen RV redneck
s Curt (Christopher Amitrano) and Jerry (David DeLuise
) have stolen an ATM
and cannot figure out how to get the money from inside it. As they contemplate their problem, Lilac enlists their aid to deliver Rose's baby. Mick (Alex Rocco
) and his wife Ruby (Tess Harper
) are a middle-age couple out for an afternoon drive, and Mick ends up as a fatherly advisor on "affairs of the heart" to a few of the others stranded.
panned the film, writing "Jam is a great big pile-up of a movie", and offered that being "more than just contrived or hokey, the film stuffs itself full of sitcom characters and the sort of situations that would get rejected from bottom rung TV dramas." They felt that that the material was "dopey" and "hackneyed", that the number of interwoven character studies did not offer any single story thread worth watching, and that none of the characters rang true in their behaviors, attitudes, or revelations. They offered that while most of the cast struggled, actors Gina Torres
, Marianne Jean-Baptiste
, and William Forsythe
manage to maintain artistic integrity, even though all were hampered by trite dialogue, weak plotting, cheap symbolism, lazy exposition, and laughable story turns. The conclusion was that the film "plays like a clumsily written and poorly performed stage play, the kind that really wants to say important things about the human condition but can't get beyond its own lousiness."
DVD Verdict
also panned the film, offering that it was the "Seinfeld
of indie films" in that "It's a movie about nothing." They note that no one is hurt in the collision that creates the storyline, the ATM and RV thieves are "innocuous to the point of being silly", that the film's one attempt at a sexual overtones and liaison goes nowhere, and the "big reveals" aren't just not big, they are pretty much set up and no surprise to the viewer. They also note that being set on Father's Day, there is "a vague thread of "father issues" through out the piece", but that being vague, the threads are not properly developed. They also noted that though billed as a drama, the film was "more comedy than drama," but that it did not have enough comedy to make it a funny film. In their critique, they wrote that the title of "Jam does the movie a disservice," and that a more appropriate title might have been Stuck or Bored, for the film offered "none of the intensity that people feel in a real traffic jam—believe me, I live in Los Angeles, I know traffic jams." The reviewer "never felt the drama, the tension or the confronting of fears" as was offered through descriptions on the back cover of the DVD box. They offered in the film's defense that as a character study, it succeeded "to a certain extent," and that the actors proved better than the material with which they were dealing, all cast being recognizable television staples for years. In conclusion, the reviewer wrote "Watching Jam, is like watching a dozen real people do what real people do when they're stuck—which is nothing much. So if it was the filmmaker's desire to capture a very real moment in the lives of very normal people, he succeeded with flying colors."
AMC Filmcritic appreciated the director's efforts, in that the plot device of a group of people simply stopped in traffic and interacting for 90 minutes while awaiting the road to be cleared was "either genius or insane." They expanded that the interwoven storylines contained "some good stories and some bad, some good actors and some poor ones." And concluded that "The concept is cute but ultimately a little undercooked."
's 'Independent Spirit Award' for writers Craig E. Serling and Nicole Lonner.
s in 2006 and before its 2007 release on DVD. These festivals included the Vail Film Festival
, the Newport Beach International Film Festival
, the The Other Venice Film Festival, the Boston Film Festival
, the Hollywood Film Festival
, and the Santa Fe Film Festival
.
TV channel, the film was released on DVD on July 3, 2007, by Starz!
/Anchor Bay Entertainment
.
DVD extras include commentary with writer/director Craig Serling, cinematographer Jeff Vinditti, and composer Andy Kubiszewski, with the three peppering each other with questions. There is also the "making of" vignette When Lives Collide showing behind-the-scenes of the production and interviews with the writers, as well as two short "deleted scenes" clips, the film's original trailer, and Starz/Anchor Bay previews. Also included is the film's screenplay in a downloadable PDF format.
2006 in film
- Highest-grossing films :Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top-grossing films that were first released in the United States in 2006...
drama film
Drama film
A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...
written by Craig E. Serling and Nicole Lonner and produced by Dianne Burnett for Burnett Entertainment
Mark Burnett
Mark Burnett is a British television producer and executive producer, based in the United States. He currently is the executive producer of five network television series with seven hours of network programming. Works with which Burnett is associated have won multiple awards and recognition...
in association with Thanksgiving Films. Directed by Serling as his first feature film
Feature film
In the film industry, a feature film is a film production made for initial distribution in theaters and being the main attraction of the screening, rather than a short film screened before it; a full length movie...
, the film is the feature-length version of a short film by the same name that he shot in 2004. Starring Elizabeth Bogush
Elizabeth Bogush
Elizabeth Bogush is an American actress. She has appeared in many TV shows, including Titans with Yasmine Bleeth in 2000 and Breadwinners, and she has guest-starred in many more, including The Adventures of Pete and Pete, Scrubs, Beverly Hills, 90210, Felicity, Everybody Loves Raymond, October...
, Dan Byrd
Dan Byrd
Daniel "Dan" Byrd is an American actor. His most prominent roles include the 2006 remake of The Hills Have Eyes, the CW original comedy series Aliens in America, A Cinderella Story alongside Hillary Duff, ABC's Cougar Town, and the 2010 movie Easy A.-Life and career:Byrd was born in Marietta,...
, Julie Claire
Julie Claire
-Filmography:TV Series*Damages as Gail Sturmer*Dirt as Cheryl Steen*Day Break as Angela Rondello*Entourage as Carrie Carlson *Grounded for Life as Lina*Curb Your Enthusiasm as Iris/Sunglasses Saleswoman...
, and David DeLuise
David DeLuise
David Dominick DeLuise is an American actor and director.-Career:DeLuise was born in 1971 in Los Angeles, California. He is the youngest son of actor and comedian Dom DeLuise and actress Carol Arthur , and the brother of actor, writer, director Peter DeLuise and actor Michael DeLuise.His first...
, Jam premiered at the Vail Film Festival
Vail Film Festival
The Vail Film Festival is a four-day film festival that has taken place annually in late March or early April in Vail, Colorado since 2004. The 2011 Vail film festival took place March 31 - April 3 in Vail, Colorado...
on April 1, 2006, aired on television on the Starz! TV channel
Starz!
Starz is an American premium subscription channel that features mainly first-run motion pictures, along with some original programming...
, and was released on DVD
DVD
A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....
on July 3, 2007, by the Starz!
Starz!
Starz is an American premium subscription channel that features mainly first-run motion pictures, along with some original programming...
distribution branch of Anchor Bay Entertainment
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Anchor Bay Entertainment is a U.S. based home entertainment and production company and is a division of Starz Media, which is a unit of Starz, LLC. It was previously owned by IDT Entertainment until 2006 when IDT was purchased by Starz Media. Anchor Bay markets and sells feature films, series,...
.
Background
The concept was based upon an incident when Serling and his writing partner Nicole Lonner were stuck in a traffic in upstate New YorkNew York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
. The script for Jam was completed in 2003, and after obtaining financing, Serling shot the concept as a short film in 2004, completing principal photography in 2-1/2 days, and making the film's debut at the The Other Venice Film Festival in 2005. The filmmaker found that shooting it as a short before shooting it as a feature allowed him to hone the script and concept to better create a marketable project. After obtaining financing for the feature-length version, Serling shot it over a 15-day period in 2006. The feature length film made festival rounds before being licensed for release through Starz!
Starz!
Starz is an American premium subscription channel that features mainly first-run motion pictures, along with some original programming...
, airing first on their TV channel
Starz!
Starz is an American premium subscription channel that features mainly first-run motion pictures, along with some original programming...
and then being released on DVD through Anchor Bay Entertainment.
Plot
On Father's DayFather's Day
Father's Day is a celebration honoring fathers and celebrating fatherhood, paternal bonds, and the influence of fathers in society. Many countries celebrate it on the third Sunday of June but it is also celebrated widely on other days...
, Ted (William Forsythe
William Forsythe (actor)
William Forsythe is an American actor, known for playing "tough guy" roles. He is also a writer, and has several short stories that are set to be published.-Early life:...
) and Josh (Dan Byrd
Dan Byrd
Daniel "Dan" Byrd is an American actor. His most prominent roles include the 2006 remake of The Hills Have Eyes, the CW original comedy series Aliens in America, A Cinderella Story alongside Hillary Duff, ABC's Cougar Town, and the 2010 movie Easy A.-Life and career:Byrd was born in Marietta,...
) are out for an afternoon drive in the country. When a dog darts across the road, Ted slams on the brakes and is struck from behind by Lorraine (Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Marianne Raigipcien Jean-Baptiste is a British actress and singer of Antiguan and St. Lucian heritage.-Early life:...
), a cellist on her way to a performance gig. The impact shoves Ted's vehicle into a power pole, which falls across the road and drops electrically charged lines, blocking traffic on the narrow two-lane rural highway. As they and other travelers are now stuck, strangers emerge from their cars and become unusual companions while awaiting the hazard to be cleared.
Dale (Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Jeffrey Dean Morgan is an American actor, best known to television and movie audiences as Denny Duquette on Grey's Anatomy, patriarch John Winchester on Supernatural, and as The Comedian in the 2009 superhero film Watchmen....
), is a divorcé spending his Father's Day with his children, Robert (Skyler Gisondo
Skyler Gisondo
Skyler Gisondo is an American teen actor probably best known for his roles as Bryan Pearson on The Bill Engvall Show and Tommy Doyle in Rob Zombie's Halloween.-Awards:...
) and Brianna (Marissa Blanchard). Amy (Amanda Detmer
Amanda Detmer
Amanda Jeannette Detmer is an American actress who has appeared in various films and television shows.-Life and career:...
) is enroute to her own wedding with her friends Stephanie (Amanda Foreman
Amanda Foreman
Amanda Foreman may refer to:*Amanda Foreman , born 1966*Amanda Foreman , born 1968...
) and Jen (Elizabeth Bogush
Elizabeth Bogush
Elizabeth Bogush is an American actress. She has appeared in many TV shows, including Titans with Yasmine Bleeth in 2000 and Breadwinners, and she has guest-starred in many more, including The Adventures of Pete and Pete, Scrubs, Beverly Hills, 90210, Felicity, Everybody Loves Raymond, October...
) along for support. Lilac (Gina Torres
Gina Torres
Gina Torres is an American television and movie actress. She is known for her roles in science fiction and fantasy. She has appeared in many television series, including Hercules: The Legendary Journeys , Xena: Warrior Princess , the short-lived Cleopatra 2525, as well as Alias , Firefly Gina...
) is a lesbian
Lesbian
Lesbian is a term most widely used in the English language to describe sexual and romantic desire between females. The word may be used as a noun, to refer to women who identify themselves or who are characterized by others as having the primary attribute of female homosexuality, or as an...
hippie who moves among the other stranded motorists seeking help for her very pregnant partner Rose (Mariah O'Brien
Mariah O'Brien
Mariah O'Brien is an American film and television actress.-Career:O'Brien is perhaps best known for playing the role of "Beth" in the 1995 horror sequel Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers. Her feature film debut was a small role in the 1992 drama Gas, Food Lodging, which starred Brooke Adams,...
). She is hassled by Gary (Jonathan Silverman
Jonathan Silverman
-Personal life:Silverman was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Devora and Hillel Emanuel Silverman, a rabbi. He is the grandson of famous Conservative Rabbi Morris Silverman. David Schwimmer was his best friend in high school. He is married to actress Jennifer Finnigan who he briefly co...
) and Judy (Julie Claire
Julie Claire
-Filmography:TV Series*Damages as Gail Sturmer*Dirt as Cheryl Steen*Day Break as Angela Rondello*Entourage as Carrie Carlson *Grounded for Life as Lina*Curb Your Enthusiasm as Iris/Sunglasses Saleswoman...
), a yuppie
Yuppie
Yuppie is a term that refers to a member of the upper middle class or upper class in their 20s or 30s. It first came into use in the early-1980s and largely faded from American popular culture in the late-1980s, due to the 1987 stock market crash and the early 1990s recession...
couple who have been bickering over the fact that they have been unable to conceive a child. In a stolen RV redneck
Redneck
Redneck is a historically derogatory slang term used in reference to poor, uneducated white farmers, especially from the southern United States...
s Curt (Christopher Amitrano) and Jerry (David DeLuise
David DeLuise
David Dominick DeLuise is an American actor and director.-Career:DeLuise was born in 1971 in Los Angeles, California. He is the youngest son of actor and comedian Dom DeLuise and actress Carol Arthur , and the brother of actor, writer, director Peter DeLuise and actor Michael DeLuise.His first...
) have stolen an ATM
ATM
-In science and technology:*Adobe Type Manager, typeface management software from Adobe Systems Allocated*Air traffic management, synonym for air traffic control*Alternating Turing machine, model of computation used in theoretical computer science...
and cannot figure out how to get the money from inside it. As they contemplate their problem, Lilac enlists their aid to deliver Rose's baby. Mick (Alex Rocco
Alex Rocco
Alex Rocco is an American actor. His roles have ranged from comedy to playing gangsters in Mafia movies.-Early life:...
) and his wife Ruby (Tess Harper
Tess Harper
Tess Harper is an American actress.-Early life:Born Tessie Jean Washam on August 15, 1950 in Mammoth Spring, Arkansas. Her parents' names are Ed and Rosemary Washam. She grew up around lots of quilts and quilt makers. On her own time, she liked to sit on the porch-swing and read...
) are a middle-age couple out for an afternoon drive, and Mick ends up as a fatherly advisor on "affairs of the heart" to a few of the others stranded.
Cast
- Marianne Jean-BaptisteMarianne Jean-BaptisteMarianne Raigipcien Jean-Baptiste is a British actress and singer of Antiguan and St. Lucian heritage.-Early life:...
as Lorraine - William ForsytheWilliam Forsythe (actor)William Forsythe is an American actor, known for playing "tough guy" roles. He is also a writer, and has several short stories that are set to be published.-Early life:...
as Ted - Jonathan SilvermanJonathan Silverman-Personal life:Silverman was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Devora and Hillel Emanuel Silverman, a rabbi. He is the grandson of famous Conservative Rabbi Morris Silverman. David Schwimmer was his best friend in high school. He is married to actress Jennifer Finnigan who he briefly co...
as Gary - Elizabeth BogushElizabeth BogushElizabeth Bogush is an American actress. She has appeared in many TV shows, including Titans with Yasmine Bleeth in 2000 and Breadwinners, and she has guest-starred in many more, including The Adventures of Pete and Pete, Scrubs, Beverly Hills, 90210, Felicity, Everybody Loves Raymond, October...
as Jen - Dan ByrdDan ByrdDaniel "Dan" Byrd is an American actor. His most prominent roles include the 2006 remake of The Hills Have Eyes, the CW original comedy series Aliens in America, A Cinderella Story alongside Hillary Duff, ABC's Cougar Town, and the 2010 movie Easy A.-Life and career:Byrd was born in Marietta,...
as Josh - Julie ClaireJulie Claire-Filmography:TV Series*Damages as Gail Sturmer*Dirt as Cheryl Steen*Day Break as Angela Rondello*Entourage as Carrie Carlson *Grounded for Life as Lina*Curb Your Enthusiasm as Iris/Sunglasses Saleswoman...
as Judy - David DeLuiseDavid DeLuiseDavid Dominick DeLuise is an American actor and director.-Career:DeLuise was born in 1971 in Los Angeles, California. He is the youngest son of actor and comedian Dom DeLuise and actress Carol Arthur , and the brother of actor, writer, director Peter DeLuise and actor Michael DeLuise.His first...
as Jerry - Amanda DetmerAmanda DetmerAmanda Jeannette Detmer is an American actress who has appeared in various films and television shows.-Life and career:...
as Amy - Amanda ForemanAmanda Foreman (actress)Amanda Foreman is an American actress who is best known for the role of Meghan Rotundi on the college drama series Felicity.-Early life:...
as Stephanie
- Tess HarperTess HarperTess Harper is an American actress.-Early life:Born Tessie Jean Washam on August 15, 1950 in Mammoth Spring, Arkansas. Her parents' names are Ed and Rosemary Washam. She grew up around lots of quilts and quilt makers. On her own time, she liked to sit on the porch-swing and read...
as Ruby - Jeffrey Dean MorganJeffrey Dean MorganJeffrey Dean Morgan is an American actor, best known to television and movie audiences as Denny Duquette on Grey's Anatomy, patriarch John Winchester on Supernatural, and as The Comedian in the 2009 superhero film Watchmen....
as Dale - Mariah O'BrienMariah O'BrienMariah O'Brien is an American film and television actress.-Career:O'Brien is perhaps best known for playing the role of "Beth" in the 1995 horror sequel Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers. Her feature film debut was a small role in the 1992 drama Gas, Food Lodging, which starred Brooke Adams,...
as Rose - Alex RoccoAlex RoccoAlex Rocco is an American actor. His roles have ranged from comedy to playing gangsters in Mafia movies.-Early life:...
as Mick - Gina TorresGina TorresGina Torres is an American television and movie actress. She is known for her roles in science fiction and fantasy. She has appeared in many television series, including Hercules: The Legendary Journeys , Xena: Warrior Princess , the short-lived Cleopatra 2525, as well as Alias , Firefly Gina...
as Lilac - Skyler GisondoSkyler GisondoSkyler Gisondo is an American teen actor probably best known for his roles as Bryan Pearson on The Bill Engvall Show and Tommy Doyle in Rob Zombie's Halloween.-Awards:...
as Robert - Christopher Amitrano as Curt
- Marissa N. Blanchard as Brianna
Critical response
DVD TalkDVD Talk
DVD Talk is a website for DVD enthusiasts founded in January 1999 by Geoffrey Kleinman when DVDs and DVD players were first beginning to hit the market.The site started as an online forum, an email newsletter, and a page of DVD news and reviews...
panned the film, writing "Jam is a great big pile-up of a movie", and offered that being "more than just contrived or hokey, the film stuffs itself full of sitcom characters and the sort of situations that would get rejected from bottom rung TV dramas." They felt that that the material was "dopey" and "hackneyed", that the number of interwoven character studies did not offer any single story thread worth watching, and that none of the characters rang true in their behaviors, attitudes, or revelations. They offered that while most of the cast struggled, actors Gina Torres
Gina Torres
Gina Torres is an American television and movie actress. She is known for her roles in science fiction and fantasy. She has appeared in many television series, including Hercules: The Legendary Journeys , Xena: Warrior Princess , the short-lived Cleopatra 2525, as well as Alias , Firefly Gina...
, Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Marianne Raigipcien Jean-Baptiste is a British actress and singer of Antiguan and St. Lucian heritage.-Early life:...
, and William Forsythe
William Forsythe (actor)
William Forsythe is an American actor, known for playing "tough guy" roles. He is also a writer, and has several short stories that are set to be published.-Early life:...
manage to maintain artistic integrity, even though all were hampered by trite dialogue, weak plotting, cheap symbolism, lazy exposition, and laughable story turns. The conclusion was that the film "plays like a clumsily written and poorly performed stage play, the kind that really wants to say important things about the human condition but can't get beyond its own lousiness."
DVD Verdict
DVD Verdict
DVD Verdict is a judicial themed website for DVD reviews. The site was founded in 1999. Current editor in chief is Michael Stailey, who also reviews for Rotten Tomatoes...
also panned the film, offering that it was the "Seinfeld
Seinfeld
Seinfeld is an American television sitcom that originally aired on NBC from July 5, 1989, to May 14, 1998, lasting nine seasons, and is now in syndication. It was created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld, the latter starring as a fictionalized version of himself...
of indie films" in that "It's a movie about nothing." They note that no one is hurt in the collision that creates the storyline, the ATM and RV thieves are "innocuous to the point of being silly", that the film's one attempt at a sexual overtones and liaison goes nowhere, and the "big reveals" aren't just not big, they are pretty much set up and no surprise to the viewer. They also note that being set on Father's Day, there is "a vague thread of "father issues" through out the piece", but that being vague, the threads are not properly developed. They also noted that though billed as a drama, the film was "more comedy than drama," but that it did not have enough comedy to make it a funny film. In their critique, they wrote that the title of "Jam does the movie a disservice," and that a more appropriate title might have been Stuck or Bored, for the film offered "none of the intensity that people feel in a real traffic jam—believe me, I live in Los Angeles, I know traffic jams." The reviewer "never felt the drama, the tension or the confronting of fears" as was offered through descriptions on the back cover of the DVD box. They offered in the film's defense that as a character study, it succeeded "to a certain extent," and that the actors proved better than the material with which they were dealing, all cast being recognizable television staples for years. In conclusion, the reviewer wrote "Watching Jam, is like watching a dozen real people do what real people do when they're stuck—which is nothing much. So if it was the filmmaker's desire to capture a very real moment in the lives of very normal people, he succeeded with flying colors."
AMC Filmcritic appreciated the director's efforts, in that the plot device of a group of people simply stopped in traffic and interacting for 90 minutes while awaiting the road to be cleared was "either genius or insane." They expanded that the interwoven storylines contained "some good stories and some bad, some good actors and some poor ones." And concluded that "The concept is cute but ultimately a little undercooked."
Awards and nominations
In 2006, the film won the Santa Fe Film FestivalSanta Fe Film Festival
The Santa Fe Film Festival is a Non-Profit Organization which presents important world cinema in a non-commercial context that represents aesthetic, critical and entertainment standards highlighting New Mexican film, new American and foreign film including revivals, retrospectives, independent...
's 'Independent Spirit Award' for writers Craig E. Serling and Nicole Lonner.
Film festivals
The film screened at the Director's Guild of America before its multiple film festivalFilm festival
A film festival is an organised, extended presentation of films in one or more movie theaters or screening venues, usually in a single locality. More and more often film festivals show part of their films to the public by adding outdoor movie screenings...
s in 2006 and before its 2007 release on DVD. These festivals included the Vail Film Festival
Vail Film Festival
The Vail Film Festival is a four-day film festival that has taken place annually in late March or early April in Vail, Colorado since 2004. The 2011 Vail film festival took place March 31 - April 3 in Vail, Colorado...
, the Newport Beach International Film Festival
Newport Beach Film Festival
The Newport Beach Film Festival is a film festival in the United States held in Newport Beach, California, that showcases more than 350 films to more than 30,000 attendees annually....
, the The Other Venice Film Festival, the Boston Film Festival
Boston Film Festival
Boston Film Festival is an annual film festival held in Boston in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. It has been held annually since 1984, usually in early September....
, the Hollywood Film Festival
Hollywood Film Festival
The Hollywood Film Festival is an annual Film festival which is located in Los Angeles, California, USA. The Festival was established in 1997 by Carlos de Abreu and his wife, model Janice Pennington....
, and the Santa Fe Film Festival
Santa Fe Film Festival
The Santa Fe Film Festival is a Non-Profit Organization which presents important world cinema in a non-commercial context that represents aesthetic, critical and entertainment standards highlighting New Mexican film, new American and foreign film including revivals, retrospectives, independent...
.
DVD
After airing on the Starz!Starz!
Starz is an American premium subscription channel that features mainly first-run motion pictures, along with some original programming...
TV channel, the film was released on DVD on July 3, 2007, by Starz!
Starz!
Starz is an American premium subscription channel that features mainly first-run motion pictures, along with some original programming...
/Anchor Bay Entertainment
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Anchor Bay Entertainment is a U.S. based home entertainment and production company and is a division of Starz Media, which is a unit of Starz, LLC. It was previously owned by IDT Entertainment until 2006 when IDT was purchased by Starz Media. Anchor Bay markets and sells feature films, series,...
.
DVD extras include commentary with writer/director Craig Serling, cinematographer Jeff Vinditti, and composer Andy Kubiszewski, with the three peppering each other with questions. There is also the "making of" vignette When Lives Collide showing behind-the-scenes of the production and interviews with the writers, as well as two short "deleted scenes" clips, the film's original trailer, and Starz/Anchor Bay previews. Also included is the film's screenplay in a downloadable PDF format.
External links
- Jam at the Internet Movie DatabaseInternet Movie DatabaseInternet Movie Database is an online database of information related to movies, television shows, actors, production crew personnel, video games and fictional characters featured in visual entertainment media. It is one of the most popular online entertainment destinations, with over 100 million...
- Film trailer at filmcritic.com