The Cutting Room (2001)

User Rating:

6.6/10   

Director:

Daniel Barnz

Genre:

Short | Comedy

Tagline:

Is there life after you've hit the cutting room floor?

Plot:

In a trailer park on the outskirts of nowhere, all the characters edited out of every movie, book, play...

Cast

Tawanda Blair	...	Mercedes
Steven Flynn	...	Romlet
Shannon Holt	...	Dr. Feinstein
Sarah Koskoff	...	Lucy Bennett
Lauren Lane	...	Joan Swanson
Todd Louiso	...	Jason

Runtime:

15 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

A little clever thing

"The Cutting Room" was shown on IFC as part of one of its short film collections. It's a perfect fit for the channel - hip, funny, smart, and stylish.

The idea for "The Cutting Room" is very clever - there's a trailer in Hollywood where characters go when they get cut out of movies and plays and books. The film looks at how a character from an action film comes to realize this fate when he meets four other characters who have been similarly cut.

The post-titles mention Dogme 95 (they also mention a few other things, which must be some sort of hip) and the film is indeed made true to those tenets, complete with shaky cameras and wacky angles.

It's a fun little film and worth looking for if you have IFC.