One man's unguarded honesty threatens to destroy the longtime friendship between an aspiring screenwriter and a successful magazine editor in writer/director Russell Brown's blistering comedy about the high price of being truthful. Sam has written a screenplay. He believes the film he has dreamt up could be his ticket to the big time, but before anything else, he wants to get some feedback from his old friend David. David is a magazine editor who's currently at the top of his game. He doesn't
think too much of Sam's screenplay, and his admission of this fact opens up a critical rift between the two longtime writers. As the tension begins spreading to other areas of both men's lives, they suddenly find themselves forced to confront their motivations for becoming writers in the first place. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
Sure, The Bluetooth Virgin may not find love right around the corner, but it's a film I'll have no problem recommending 20 years from now. That's got to count for something.
Simultaneously insightful and idiotic, the minimalist pic features a succession of experts providing their two cents on Why We Write, the pitfalls of friendship and the need for outside validation.
Playing like a junior version of an early David Mamet talkfest, this arch look at the ups and downs of struggling screenwriters has more than its share of well-landed zingers.
The film is low budget and uneven in spots, but the dialogue is biting, Russell Brown's direction is often razor-sharp and the action climaxes with a virtuoso cameo appearance by the great Karen Black as a wily and wise script consultant.
Fitfully, intriguingly captures the ever-present tension between between art and commerce, and again sets on a tee the age-old question: is it an audience that makes a work a legitimate piece of art?
Neither blue teeth nor virgins make appearances, but Russell Brown's torpid indie does deliver plenty of ponderous chitchat about truth, deception, criticism and artists' motivations.
For a film so keen on creating humor off the inaptness of a character's script, Blue Tooth Virgin should have double-checked its own screenwriting chops.
Beneath the corny title, u will find a wonderful friendship story about writers and their insecurities, not being able to digest criticism... very relevant to us, the writers and the people around us. Very charming tale.
*** (out of four)
A movie about writing a movie. It's been done before, but this film turns out to be just what a screenwriter would like to offer. It lampoons the industry it serves while questioning the true reasons thousands flock to L.A., script in hand, to take on the motion picture world.
Sam (Austin Peck)
has just completed a new script that he feels is destined for greatness. He could use a break. It has been several years since his failed television show has been on the tube. He gives the script to his best friend (Bryce Johnson) to read. He does, but he hates it. He tries to give Sam the news gently, but their relationship is strained when they fight over it.
The story doesn't fall into the usual traps, instead it unfolds much like a stage play with long scenes of the characters just talking. The interaction is what makes the characters interesting. The scenes evolve much the way they would in real-life.
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