A very Special trailer
Filed under: Comedy, Drama, Independent, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sundance, Movie Marketing, Cinematical Indie
Like Todd at Twitch, I'm a huge Michael Rapaport fan. Ever since I accidentally caught his debut, Zebrahead, at my local multiplex (!) in college, I've wondered why
such a talented, interesting actor ends up in so much godforsaken crap. He's clearly cursed with a)needing to make
money (presumably The War at Home is keeping him in
groceries), and b)not being a hot, photogenic kid who gets jobs because he's pretty. Sometimes the latter curse can be
turned into a blessing, though, because it means people with weird, interesting scripts looking for an actor with
passion and no fear come to him first. The result of one of those imagined encounters is Special, a movie I had never heard of until I saw the trailer on Twitch yesterday. It's about "a lonely metermaid [who] has a psychotic reaction to his medication and becomes convinced he's a superhero," and its tagline is the realistically harsh "A very select group of people in life are truly gifted. Special is a movie about everyone else." The trailer is both completely hilarious and incredibly depressing, but Rapaport is fantastic throughout, and the movie - the debut of writer/directors Hal Haberman and Jeremy Passmore - looks really wonderful. It played at Sundance this year but somehow managed to evade our screening dragnet; as of yet, no distribution has been secured.
[via Twitch]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
2-18-2006 @ 5:19PM
Scott Weinberg said...
I was able to catch it at a late-night public screening, and I dug it quite a bit. Good to see some ground-buzz grooving for this flick.
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2-18-2006 @ 7:15PM
Kat said...
That. Looks. Awesome.
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2-18-2006 @ 9:03PM
tozmervo said...
That music is going to be stuck in my head for weeks. Aaaaaarh!
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2-19-2006 @ 10:31AM
Karina said...
Both James and I were desperately trying to get into public screenings of the film whilst at Sundance (by the time it hit our radar, it's single press screening had come and gone), to no avail. I told Jeremy Walker, who was repping it for distribution, that people were talking about it and that he should try to make screeners availble to the press, and he told me they couldn't do that because distribution talks were still under way. I got the same response when I approached the rep for Son of Man, the African Jesus musical that Roger Ebert told me was the one film I must see at the festival.
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2-19-2006 @ 4:35PM
Christopher Campbell said...
The film looks amazing, though I am suspicious of its attempts to be a follower of Charlie Kaufman. I support the ambition, but doubt the abilities. Alas, I am the cynic.
Rappaport is an actor capable and deserving of a hit, however.
Also: the song in the trailer is Popcorn by Hot Butter, a novelty hit from the 70s.
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