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The Color Wheel (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

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

Running Time:
83 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 2011 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Alex Ross Perry

Written By:
Carlen Altman
Alex Ross Perry

Actors:
Carlen Altman ..... JR
Bob Byington ..... Professor Neil Chadwick
Kate Lyn Sheil ..... Julia
Anna Bak-Kvapil ..... Kim Thompson
Ry Russo-Young ..... Zoe
Craig Butta ..... Norton the Bully
Alex Ross Perry ..... Colin
Tom Brown ..... Antique Tom
Kate Hollowell ..... Ellie
Anna Margaret Hollyman ..... Roberta B.
Keith Poulson ..... Norton's Sidekick
Ethan Smith ..... Singing Waiter
Jody E. Smith ..... Ms. Wagner
Roy Thomas ..... Motel Clerk
Sarah Virden ..... Preppie No-Pineapple
C. Mason Wells ..... Chris 'Wheels' Locke

Synopsis:

In this bracingly original comedy, the director Alex Ross Perry gives a harsh, sarcastic twist to the intimate rivalry of siblings. He co-stars as Colin, a diffident aspiring writer whose older sister, J.R. (Carlen Altman), a proud and caustic aspiring actress, has dropped out of college after ending a relationship with 'one of the top broadcast-journalism professors in the entire state.' She recruits Colin to join her on a road trip to her ex's house to retrieve her belongings. The siblings' antic humiliations begin at a Christian-themed motel, where they must pretend to be a married couple, and continue through a series of chance encounters, including one with former high-school friends (Kate Lyn Sheil and Anna Bak-Kvapil). Along the way, they pummel each other verbally and unearth several decades of pent-up grudges. Perry directs these uproarious rapid-fire outbursts with exquisite comic timing and incisive comic framing (the black-and-white cinematography is by Sean Price Williams); he and Altman go at each other with claws bared, revealing the terrifying vulnerability of two wounded souls who know each other's wounds all too well.

JR has broken up with her professor. She enlists her nervous and obnoxious younger brother Colin to take a short road trip in order to help move out her belongings. They bicker and fight, with one another and pretty much anybody they encounter, before being brought to a place of togetherness and understanding as a result of being pushed away by everybody in their lives except one another.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 19 May, 2015.