Title: Wake Writer-director: Steve Garrett Starring: Jerad Anderson, Monica Pitpit, Steve Garrett, Renee Victor, Joseph Raymond Lucero, Janna Bossier A world premiere, in-competition title at the just underway, 14th annual Dances With Films festival, writer-director Steve Garrett’s Wake is a rangy, philosophically-tinged drama that connects mostly on the value of its production design, which gives the movie a certain grungy Venice Beach authenticity. For a while it looks as though Wake may be a low-fi companion piece to Lords of Dogtown, chronicling the local skate scene. Bobby (Jerad Anderson) is a talented but emotionally isolated skater who’s trying to scrape together enough money to procure a better life for his stripper girlfriend Carmen (Monica Pitpit),...
- 6/5/2011
- by bsimon
- ShockYa
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