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Film ‘Rushlights' Opens Right this moment At The Hippodrome Cinema.

The movie, which stars Josh Henderson, Beau Bridges, Aidan Quinn and Haley Webb, is the story of two teenage lovers from Los Angeles who try to escape their life conditions by crafting the right scam, says director, co-writer and producer Antoni Stutz. He says the title, Rushlights,” which was inspired by a poem by B.J. Smith, has a figurative significance to the film. The movie, which screened on the rushlights Montreal International Pageant in 2012 and on the Dallas International and Newport Seaside Worldwide movie festivals this 12 months, is opening in restricted release in Gainesville, New York Metropolis and Los Angeles. I optioned Rushlights to Antoni years in the past and he plugged away, too, making an attempt to get the movie financed.

The unwinding greed and deceit by two younger con artists as they try to falsely declare the inheritance of a useless pal in the small city of Tremo, Texas, units the film on an inevitable path. Actress Haley Webb, 27, says the movie will appeal to an viewers from completely different generations. She says the love story pulls on the heartstrings of viewers, and the depth of the plot keeps the thriller shifting along.

Unabashedly pulpy, Rushlights brings to mind the noir cheapies churned out by the studios of Hollywood's Poverty Row in the early 1950s. A by-the-numbers thriller that wouldn't even have made for a particularly good hourlong episode of a weekly crime procedural, never mind an honest-to-God characteristic-size film. If ever a film signaled that the Quentin Tarantino copycat age of empty-headed wink-wink genre rehashing continues to be with us, Rushlights is that film.

Getting an impartial film financed is extremely laborious - primarily because it's such a dangerous enterprise - but Antoni by no means gave up and I congratulate him for persevering, getting funding and being able to realize his vision. In hindsight I feel I was good to put in writing a story about a man who would not give up even within the face of overwhelming odds because that is the type of individual a movie needs to get made and it's the kind of person that was drawn to this story. In relation to movie plotting, too many twists just end in an annoying tangle.

In case you write a story a couple of bunch of goof-ball stoners it could be hilarious but if that is the kind of one who comes on board to produce it you've obtained massive problems. Inheritance (which was my original title for the script) was the sixth script I wrote and probably the second script that was coherent enough to really be became a half-means respectable movie.