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Shit Year (DVD) (*)

$33.99

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
German ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Germany ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
95 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 2010 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Cam Archer

Written By:
Cam Archer

Actors:
Ellen Barkin ..... Colleen West
Luke Grimes ..... Harvey West
Bob Einstein ..... Rick
Theresa Randle ..... Marion
Melora Walters ..... Shelly
Josh Blaylock ..... Not Marcus
Djuna Bel ..... Girl in Bed
Tiffany Anders ..... Checkout Girl
Nate Archer ..... Man with Tractor
Fairuza Balk ..... Message Voice
Rickie Lee Jones ..... Narrator
Kevin Keirstead ..... Marcus
Anna Moore ..... Hal's Assistant
Kavita Rao ..... Skin Person
London Vale ..... Skin Person

Synopsis:

Do you ever stand in the mirror so long that you become disgusted with yourself? Aging movie star Colleen West (Ellen Barkin) asks this very Hollywood question to her young beau and fellow actor Harvey West (Luke Grimes) early in Cam Archer's Shit Year, a volatile but intoxicating examination of personal emptiness. Throughout the film's many hypnotic narrative tangents, it's blatantly obvious Colleen specializes in this type of masochistic discourse. Time spent with Harvey during a final artistic hurrah (a community theater production) is especially self-immolating for Colleen. The romantic delusions eventually wash away and she's left with only her shape-shifting memories that are both expansive and distrusting in nature. After her relationship with Harvey fractures, Colleen moves to a cabin somewhere in the woods north of Los Angeles, but instead of serenity she finds the constant roar of tractors and bulldozers clearing nature away for development plans. 'All I hear are machines,' she says, cementing a clear reality: There will be no peace throughout this Shit Year.

For Colleen West, the actress played by Ellen Barkin in Shit Year, it was as the unprintable title of this experimental narrative suggests a long, lousy time, and now it's gone, Baby, gone. Having announced that she's retiring from acting, Colleen moves to a cabin in the country and into her memories of a younger man she calls her latest disappointment, Harvey (Luke Grimes), a beauty with a sensitive pout and fogged-over eyes. She also strikes up a friendship of sorts with a neighbor (Melora Walters) and is visited by her brother (a funny Bob Einstein). Every so often, Colleen appears to visit a therapist. All of this becomes eventually, almost begrudgingly, clear in a movie that seems determined to be anything but.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 05 December, 2011.

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