Writer-director-editor James Westby's low-fi valentine to hard-core film buffs offers hope to the movie-mad and the undersocialized, but protagonist Scotty Pelk (Melik Malkasian) — you know, Scotty like Jimmy Stewart's character in VERTIGO (1958) — is such an annoying little dweeb that it's hard to imagine anyone else caring about his travails. Portland-based Scotty works at Video Connections until his fanatical hectoring of customers and fellow staffers who don't care about Jean-Luc Godard and Ingmar Bergman or the superiority of letterboxing over pan-and-scan gets him fired. Unable to get a gig at another video store, he takes a job at an auto-parts wareh...
Released:
2004
Rated:
NR
Length:
72 mins