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Everything Moves Alone

2001, Movie, NR, 100 mins

Everything Moves Alone: Review

EVERYTHING MOVES ALONE
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Amateurish but sweet-natured, this slight comic drama about a young man at loose ends has a certain shaggy charm, which can't quite counteract the double whammy of its technical limitations and meandering script. Amiable Scotch Leary (Philip Guerette) is fresh out of the army and keen to effect a reconciliation with his estranged older brother, Rob (Mike Aransky). Rob lives in a small New England town, so Scotch hops on a bus, armed with a duffel bag containing all his worldly possessions and a plan that goes no further than the moment he turns up on his brother's doorstep. While trying to hitch a ride from the bus station to the center of town, Scotch makes a friend of sorts in the moody Anderson (Thomas Edward Seymour). Anderson immediately drags the unwitting Scotch into his on-going feud with belligerent video store owner McDunley (Matt Ford), which mostly involves juvenile pranks of the dog-doo-in-the-mailbox variety. Scotch's attempt to patch things up with his intensely hostile brother (who's made an enemy of just about everyone he's ever met) isn't an immediate success, but Scotch is determined to hang in there. Meanwhile, he picks up a little cash committing petty acts of vandalism on Anderson's behalf, and begins to learn more about his secretive friend. That's about it for plot; most of the movie revolves around Scotch and Anderson sitting around jawboning about girls, fishing, orange juice and what-have-you. The film is essentially a three-man show: Seymour, Aransky and Guerette not only star but, in various combinations, shot, produced and edited it — Aransky and Seymour wrote both the script and the score. Credit to them for having pulled the project together, and for their desire to make something other than a cheesy horror movie or a sub-Tarantino gangster picture. But the film drags badly (at an hour and forty minutes, it's at least 15 minutes too long), in part because no one in the cast is a sufficiently compelling actor to make such insubstantial material interesting. The town's lone gay resident (Erik Nivison) is a truly offensive stereotype, and the characters' quirks frequently seem forced, rather than outgrowths of their personalities. leave a comment --Maitland McDonagh
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