Try Seventeen (2002)

User Rating:

6.1/10   

Director:

Jeffrey Porter

Writer:

Charles Kephart (writer)

Release Date:

1 April 2003 (Russia)

Genre:

Comedy | Romance | Drama

Tagline:

You're only seventeen once. For Jones Dillon, it's one time too many.

Plot:

The story of a young man who enters college only to discover that he can learn more about life and love from his neighbors in the apartment building where he lives.

Plot Keywords:

Apartment Building | Apartment | College | Photographer | Fantasy Life

Cast

Elijah Wood	...	Jones
Franka Potente	...	Jane
Mandy Moore	...	Lisa
Chris William Martin	...	Steve
Deborah Harry	...	Ma Mabley
Elizabeth Perkins	...	Blanche
Aaron Pearl	...	Brad
Andrew Jackson	...	Guy
Malcolm Scott	...	Randy
Aloma Wright	...	Alicia
Frank C. Turner	...	Custodian
Josh Byer	...	Skinhead
Chad Faust	...	Tough
Daniella Evangelista	...	Girlfriend
Michael Roberds	...	Clerk
Michael P. Northey	...	Phone Guy
Vicky Huang	...	Cantonese Girl
Chris Boyd	...	No Arms
Narmaya	...	Belly Dancer
Desiree Zurowski	...	Nude Instructor
Tom Bell	...	Bartender

Directed by
Jeffrey Porter

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Charles Kephart		writer

Produced by
Boaz Davidson	....	executive producer
Mike Elliott	....	producer
Randall Emmett	....	producer
George Furla	....	producer
Joseph P. Genier	....	co-producer
Bradley Jenkel	....	executive producer
Avi Lerner	....	executive producer
Trevor Short	....	executive producer
John Thompson	....	executive producer
Michele Weisler	....	producer
Holly Wiersma	....	producer
Shawn Williamson	....	co-producer

Original Music by
Andrew Gross

Cinematography by
Blake T. Evans

Film Editing by
David M. Richardson

Casting by
Maureen Webb

Production Design by
Rachel O'Toole

Art Direction by
Geoff Wallace

Set Decoration by
Shane Vieau

Costume Design by
Katrina McCarthy

Makeup Department
Devyn Griffith	....	assistant makeup artist
Kandace Loewen	....	hair stylist
Andrea Simpson	....	assistant hair stylist
Margaret Yaworski	....	makeup artist

Production Management
Dan Clarke	....	unit production manager
Jonathan Shore	....	post-production supervisor

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Jeffrey Furlong	....	trainee assistant director
Robert Lee	....	second unit director
Jay Henry Moritz	....	second assistant director
Michael Pohorly	....	third assistant director
Gary Blair Smith	....	first assistant director

Art Department
James Blake	....	key scenic artist
Kristen Bond	....	set supervisor
Gerri Crawford	....	props buyer (as Gerri-Lynne Crawford)
Greg Diachok	....	lead scenic artist
Adrian Dowell	....	construction coordinator
David Dowling	....	lead props
Michael Farrell	....	head carpenter
Scott Holburn	....	on-set dresser
Barry Kemp	....	assistant set decorator
Kristina Lyne	....	assistant art director
David Menske	....	set decoration buyer
David Perun	....	property master
Judi Stackaruk	....	set dresser

Sound Department
Hugo DeLaCerda	....	sound re-recording mixer
Dario DiSanto	....	foley editor
Kris Fenske	....	supervising sound editor
Megan Goudsward	....	background sound editor
Wolfgang Herold	....	sound supervisor: Germany
Kirby Jinnah	....	dialogue editor
Deni King	....	adr supervisor: Los Angeles
Laurie Melhus	....	sound coordinator
Bill Mellow	....	sound re-recording mixer
Mark Noda	....	boom operator
Sina Oroomchi	....	sound re-recording mixer
Gene Radzik	....	stereo sound consultant: Dolby
Jean Raymond	....	foley mixer
Brian Ruryk	....	assistant sound editor
Adam Sharpe	....	adr mixer
David Shea	....	adr mixer: Vancouver
Shane Shemko	....	foley artist
William Skinner	....	production sound mixer
Ann Townshend	....	assistant sound editor (as Anne Townshend)
Cam Wagner	....	foley artist
Rich Walters	....	assistant sound editor

Special Effects by
James Franchuk	....	special effects first assistant
John Sleep	....	special effects coordinator

Visual Effects by
John Fukushima	....	digital compositor
Sean Hewitt	....	optical printer operator
Rita Schrag	....	optical printing supervisor
Jim Stewart	....	optical designer
Joel Tong	....	digital compositor

Stunts
Scott J. Ateah	....	stunt coordinator
Garvin Cross	....	stunts
Crystal Dalman	....	stunt double
Ryan Ennis	....	stunts
Rick Pearce	....	stunts
Heath Stevenson	....	stunts
Claire Webb	....	stunts

Camera and Electrical Department
Paul Akehurst	....	lamp operator
Ray Boyle	....	gaffer
Ryan Cox	....	grip
Michael Davies	....	camera operator
Dwight Durham	....	assistant camera trainee
Chris Helcermanas-Benge	....	still photographer
Cliff Hokanson	....	camera operator
Lynne Kam	....	best person grip
Benoît Lamarche	....	key grip
Mark Lunn	....	first assistant camera
Heather MacNeill	....	second assistant camera
Dave McFarland	....	additional cinematographer
Patrick Moore	....	generator operator
Philippe Palu	....	dolly grip
Shelly Papp	....	best boy electric (as Shelley Papp)
Dave Roughley	....	lamp operator
Scott Kozak	....	grip (uncredited)

Casting Department
Sandra Couldwell	....	extras casting
Lonnie Mackenzie	....	extras casting assistant (as Lonnie Rathie)

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Brie Thorpe	....	assistant costume designer

Editorial Department
Dave Duce	....	post-production coordinator (as David Duce)
Earl Fudger	....	first assistant editor
Harvey Greenberg	....	head of post-production
Ryan Hogan	....	final colorist
Vicki McIsaac	....	post-production coordinator

Music Department
Jeff Lingle	....	music editor
Ashley Miller	....	music supervisor
Brian Reardon	....	composer: source cue
Trent Walker	....	composer: songs "Any Minute Now" and "Heartbreak June"
Rich Walters	....	music editor
Brian Reardon	....	session musician (uncredited)

Transportation Department
Ben Derrick	....	transportation coordinator
Viola Janzen	....	transportation captain
Matt Trask	....	co-transportation captain

Other crew
Tsila Adler	....	post-production accountant
Leon Thomas Braun	....	production assistant
Donald Bruce	....	production controller
Karen M. Cockrell	....	post-production accounting manager (as Karen Cockrell)
Ian Doig	....	animal trainer: wild animals
Dani Elias	....	production assistant
Bianca Feldevere	....	production assistant
Scott Firth	....	trainee assistant location manager
Kate Gajdosik	....	accounting clerk
Dave Gaudet	....	stand-in
Brandon Grimes	....	assistant: Mr. Emmett and Mr. Furla
Tim Gunderson	....	craft service
Brady Hallongren	....	title supervisor
Shannon Harron	....	assistant accountant
Patti Henderson	....	script supervisor
Carol Hocking	....	production accountant
Dmitry Kazak	....	production assistant
Jayme Lemons	....	assistant: Ms. Weisler
Paul Lukaitis	....	location manager
Grace MacLeod	....	animal trainer
Gregory Makaroff	....	stand-in (as Greg Makaroff)
Dawn Mander	....	stand-in
Rico Mielnicki	....	assistant location manager
Samantha Morris	....	assistant to producer
Theresa Peoples	....	assistant: Ms. Weirsma
Katherine Potts	....	assistant: Mr. Lerner
Christine Roberts	....	assistant: Mr. Thompson & Mr. Davidson
Brendan Rooney	....	assistant production coordinator
Joey Setter	....	production coordinator
Heidi Windebank	....	production assistant

Production Companies

• Millennium Films
• Epsilon Motion Pictures
• Brightlight Pictures
• Capital Arts Entertainment
• Emmett/Furla Films
• Millenium Pictures

Distributors

• Califórnia Home Vídeo (2004) (Brazil) (DVD)
• Califórnia Home Vídeo (2004) (Brazil) (VHS)
• Filmax S.A. (Spain)
• Nu Image Films (non-USA)
• PlazaVista Entertainment (2004) (Switzerland) (DVD) (as Medaria Home Entertainment)
• Try Seventeen Productions Inc.
• Universum Film (UFA) (2004) (Germany) (DVD)

Other Companies

• Original Conforming Services  negative cutting
• Sharpe Sound Studios  post-production audio facilities
• Stewart Motion Picture Services  titles and opticals

Also Known As:

All I Want (USA) (DVD title)

MPAA:

Rated R for language and some sexuality.

Runtime:

96 min (Toronto International Film Festival)

Country:

Canada | USA

Language:

German | English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) | Canada:14A (Ontario) | Canada:G (Quebec) | Canada:14A (Manitoba) | Iceland:L | Australia:M | Denmark:11 | Germany:12 | Indonesia:17/atas | Philippines:PG-13 | Singapore:NC-16 | UK:15 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Company:

Millennium Films

Trivia:

On some of the DVD box covers, Jane and Lisa's hair colors are reversed from that of the movie.

Quotes:

Blanche: You can't just stop some people, Jones. They come into your life destined to leave it.

Soundtrack:

É Dia

Respect and purpose.

This is a very sensitive and original `coming of age' film, centered around a seventeen-year-old boy seeking to find meaning in his life. His mom had been, in her youth, a self-absorbed, dope-smoking and thrill-seeking Bohemian, who fell for an equally superficial and pretentious pseudo-intellectual of the writer variety, and by the time he went out for a pack of cigarettes never to return, she had found herself pregnant. That would have been the end of her story had mom been a pauper, but her family had money, so by the time the story opens the son had been shuttled around through every prep-school in the country. He never knew his father, and what he knew about his mother was that she never grew up.

What little his mother would say about his father were myths, which he clings to desperately in this story. Had his father `really' been a writer? All he has for proof is an old typewriter, on which he tries to write letters to his father that are never mailed. The whereabouts of the father are not known. Estranged and alienated from his parents, he ends up in an apartment where he can begin to find himself through associations with others who have complicated stories of their own to share. Not surprisingly, he falls in love with an older woman who is much like his mother: self-absorbed and addicted to dysfunctional relationships. Almost as though to redeem his mother through the woman, he tries to prove himself the better man to her, in contrast to the slick and quick former boyfriend, with his leather clothes and hot guitar. He is a nice guy that wants to finish better, not last. It is a very mature and well-crafted story.