LET THEM CHIRP AWHILE -
(unrated) 2007 - USA - English - 91 minutes
Directed by: Jonathan Blitstein
Featuring: Justin Rice, Brendan Sexton III, Zach Galligan, Laura Breckenridge, Pepper Binkley, Anthony Rapp
Bobby (Rice) is a struggling screenwriter who tries to get romantically involved with a friend by agreeing to take care of her dog. He's also stuck on an idea for an arty screenplay involving talking pigeons. His friend Scott (Sexton III) is a depressed musician bored with his girlfriend and miserable in his day job. When Bobby tells Scott the idea for his new script, Scott leaks the info to Hart, (Galligan) Bobby’s nemesis, a playwright whose campy drama about 9/11 has won awards and a run at an off-Broadway theater. What begins as a quirky comedy about relationships and writer’s block becomes a coming-of-age tale about competition and self-reliance among the “me-generation”.
BEST FEATURE FILM -- East Lansing Film Festival OPENING NIGHT SELECTION -- Woodstock Film Festival OPENING NIGHT SELECTION -- Mar Del Plata Buenos Aires, Filma Madrid
"Fresh and original." --Independent
"Can supply the plot the [mumblecore] movement so desperately cries out for." --New York Press
"A major new filmmaker is in town." --Jamming
"The good fortune didn’t end at casting." --Indiewire
I saw a screener copy of this - pretty solid flick...witty, intelligent, and awkwardly sexual...felt sort of Woody Allen-ish. Definitely worth checking out
