GUY IN ROW FIVE
A film review by Steve Rhodes
Copyright 2005 Steve Rhodes
RATING (0 TO ****): **
Likeable actors; lightweight script. In GUY IN ROW FIVE, Thess (Bobby Field) is an aspiring actor who wants a regular part in "Rodeo Nights," a hot new television series, but the casting director puts it best when she says, he "couldn't act wet in a pool." The TV series, as you probably can guess, is intentionally over-the-top awful.
Thess uses his girlfriend Rose (Clare Kramer from BRING IT ON) as his head boom operator for a documentary on his life. Whenever she raises the boom, more of her attractive midriff is exposed. The on-going joke is that Rose hits Thess on the head whenever he says something that she doesn't like. The two of them have great charisma together, so it's a shame that the script doesn't give them more to do. Every once in a while the dialog is cute, and one of the best lines occurs when Thess explains his approach to Shakespeare. "The trick to Shakespeare," he tells Rose, "is to 'feel it.' Half of the time I don't know what I'm saying but I 'feel it.'"
GUY IN ROW FIVE runs 1:37.
The film is being shown as part of San Jose's Cinequest Film Festival (www.Cinequest.org), which runs March 2-13, 2005.
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