![]() Critics were divided in reaction to the film some praised the performances, the dialogue and the cinematography, while others thought it was unoriginal, forgettable, and poorly acted. Its run lasted just three days, and it grossed only US$11,931. The Go-Getter debuted on January 22, 2007, at the Sundance Film Festival and was given a limited theatrical release on June 6, 2008, by Peace Arch Entertainment. Ward provided most of the music for the film, complemented by songs from The Black Keys, Elliott Smith, The Replacements, and Animal Collective. Filming took place between October and November 2005 in Oregon, Nevada, California, and Mexico. Before production began, Hynes and three other crew members traveled to almost every location visited in the film to perform a test shoot, trying various filming styles and techniques. After his mother died, and his marriage ended, he took a road trip of his own and wrote "different things," some of which came together in the script for The Go-Getter. The story was based partially on Hynes's own experiences. He communicates with the car's owner, Kate (Deschanel), via her cell phone while he travels. In the film, 19-year-old Mercer (Pucci) steals a stranger's car to embark on a road trip to find his estranged brother and tell him that their mother has died. The film stars Lou Taylor Pucci, Zooey Deschanel, and Jena Malone. Opens Friday, December 7 at the Carlton Cinema in Toronto, the Globe Cinema in Calgary and the Mayfair in Ottawa.The Go-Getter is a 2007 American independent road film directed and written by Martin Hynes. Starring Aaron Abrams, Tommie-Amber Pirie and Kristian Bruun. ![]() Written by Aaron Abrams and Brendan Gall. ![]() Hence my hunch that a weekly dose of Owen, Lacie, Kevin and Cerebral Pauly might actually work, TV already having proved with shows like Arrested Development that we don’t have to “like” characters to like them. And yet, once you’ve absorbed their collective horribleness, the characters start to grow on you – just about in time for the movie to end. There’s every reason to hate The Go-Getters and everybody in it. Sample un-PC character: a pimp in the bar nicknamed Cerebral Paulie ( James Cade), so named because he incurred a brain injury while driving drunk and now suffers from palsy. Most people will find Owen and Lacie’s story off-putting initially (and maybe entirely as well), but It is so over-the-top in its characterizations and plot turns that you have to be impressed by the movie’s determination to offend. So, like a rejected Trailer Park Boys episode, we watch two low-lives try everything from mugging pan-handlers to rigging up a glory-hole in Kevin’s bar to finance their bus-tickets. The obstacle: the $98 in bus fare it would take both of them to get there. So without moral guilt, we can laugh at every mishap that befalls them as they concoct a life-changing scheme that involves leaving Toronto for Brockville (where they plan to more or less take over the house belonging to Lacie’s grandmother). How deplorable? On meeting Lacie, Owen agrees to give her $5 for a sexual service – the same $5 he stole from her bra when he found her comatose on a bathroom floor in the first place. But every effort is made to show that these two are so deplorable, they are clearly authors of their own predicament. Sure, it’s a movie that squeezes laughs out of the plight of the homeless (Owen’s exasperated brother Kevin, played by Kristian Bruun, does allow them to sleep on a filthy mattress in the leaky boiler room of his bar). I also may be getting deeper than director Jeremy LaLonde (Baroness von Sketch Show) and writers Abrams and Brendan Gall ever intended. Anger seems to be the fallback emotion for both, and may be the connective tissue that draws them to each other. Actually, quotes around “love” might be in order, since Owen and Lacie aren’t exactly into warm-feels.
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