Writer/director Henry
Jaglom is what is affectionately referred to as an actor’s director (or
filmmaker). Like Woody Allen, actors
look for the opportunity to work with Jaglom; they want to have parts in his
movies.
Perhaps it is an ego
thing … doesn’t matter, that’s just the way it is.
Such is the case with the
July 16 DVD release of 45 Minutes from Broadway courtesy of
Breaking Glass Pictures. The ARR for
this theatrical production of Jaglom’s stage play, “Just 45 Minutes from
Broadway,” comes in at 284 days and the box office from the film’s limited
arthouse run last year was $115,771. It
remains very much a stage play (by design).
Actors and families of
actors are, well, different. It’s both a
gift and a curse. Consider Pandora
(Tanna Frederick), a mercurial thespian who has come crashing back to earth (once
again) after her latest love-found/love-lost romance has come to its all too
frequent and predictable conclusion.
She retreats to the family homestead to heal her wounds.
Her parents are also
actors (played by Jack Heller and Diane Salinger), so normal to them is not
necessarily normal to what they refer to as “civilians.” A “civilian” would be all of non-actors; you
know, people without the “gift.”
One such “civilian” is
her sister, Betsy (Julie Davis), who — it would appear — has a certain distain
for both her parents and her flighty sister (perhaps, just perhaps, because
they are ACTORS). She too returns to
the family digs, but with her fiancé in tow (played by Judd Nelson) … let the
games begin!
And that is exactly what 45
Minutes from Broadway is all about.
Games and diversions!
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