Any idea what it's about/based on? Anything?
Just curious... but its 'filming' and there is no synopsis yet. Any thoughts...? Anyone....? ...hello...? IS anyBODY OUT there?
share...just nod if you can hear me.
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That's right. A true art film by wunderkind brothers who ripped off their crew. They will spend the next year or two at labor board hearings getting reamed for violating every labor code in the state of California. *beep* artists, and lying decietful phonies, those fabulous Miller Brothers.
shareouuuuuuuuuuuuuch! Sounds like somebody is a little po'd. Were you on the crew? What happened, pray tell?
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PRMEPNT, I checked some of your other posts -- do you just go around disparaging every one that you feel has sligthed you? I don't know about any of this bull**** with this clown but here's an article I found on Google about the film and the brothers directing it. Looks pretty interesting to me.
http://www.azstarnet.com/sports/133046
Wow! Sounds like some of my fellow crew members feel they were not taken care of very well. It's true that the budget was small. All I can tell you is that I was paid bellow scale but did not feel abused.
The story is about twin brothers who return home after failing to make it into the major leagues. The movie was filmed in Marin and Sonoma counties in California. Ed Harris was amazing to watch. Good script. Good drama. Cannot wait to see the finished product. My experience as a crew member was a good one.
Hi there - I helped make the movie. Thanks for your comment. Logan and Noah did write the memoir. It's called "Either You're In Or You're In the Way" (published by HarperCollins). Have you read it yet? It just became a National Bestseller. I think you'd like it!
The website is www.inorintheway.com
Let me know if you're interested and I can have the guys sign it for you.
Warm regards,
Jeromy Zajonc
It is a great film, and "primepnt-1" sounds remarkably like the *single* person who was caught doing illicit activities on the set and was terminated for their unprofessional behavior. The Miller Brothers didn't "rip off their crew" as everyone knew what the score was going into the project. The Miller Bros did not "violate every labor code in the state of California." They did their homework and performed impeccably. The comment that the Miller Bros ".......will spend the next year or two at labor board hearings getting reamed for violating every labor code in the state of California".........smacks of someone making it their mission to make that happen, despite the fact that it simply isn't true. Could that be you, primepnt-1?
If all this negative gibberish was true, you wouldn't have professional actors such as Ed Harris, Brad Dourif, and Lee Merriweather participating in the film.
The Miller Bros conducted the project professionally and treated everyone with the utmost respect.
From someone-who-was-there-and-observed-first-hand.
Wow. I worked on this movie, too, and while it was a really difficult shoot (freezing weather, rain, mud, etc.), the Miller Brothers couldn't have been nicer, more gracious, or more appreciative of everyone on the cast AND crew's contribution. There clearly wasn't a big budget, and as another poster/crew member pointed out, everyone knew what they were getting into going in.
I have worked on union and non-union shows, and there are various people who've made my list of "shady people I'll never work for/with again" but the Miller brothers definitely aren't on that list.
Ah yes, read the book. "Primepnt-1" sounds like one of two characters on the set, Big Angry and his dissolute buddy. Since Big Angry actually walked out on the production, my money's on his alcoholic, drug abusing sidekick.
shareAh yes, read the book. "Primepnt-1" sounds like one of two characters on the set, Big Angry and his dissolute buddy. Since Big Angry actually walked out on the production, my money's on his alcoholic, drug abusing sidekick.
shareThe brothers did not rip anyone off. They were awarded a $250,000 filmmaker's GRANT from Panavision to borrow expensive camera equipment for free. If that's called "ripping off" the crew, then Steven Soderbergh and Jared Hess are also scam artists, since they both received the same grant to make "Sex, Lies, and Videotape" and "Napoleon Dynamite."
shareWhat proof do you have? No one goes into an indie film production expecting superstar payment, unless you're an idiot.
"Too bad you can't reload you're game and try again."
Not funny dough head. Lets here some real input!!
sharehttp://www.touchinghomemovie.com/
Check this out. It should answer your questions.
Thanks.
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To answer the original poster, the movie is autobiographical. It is about the two brothers who made the film and their father, who was homeless the last 15 years of his life and pretty much drank himself to death. They play themselves. Ed Harris plays their father. And Brad Dourif plays their uncle.
I'm currently reading their memoir of shooting the film, EITHER YOU'RE IN OR YOU'RE IN THE WAY. Definitely recommend this. Great book.
Hi there - I helped make the movie. Thanks for your comment. Logan and Noah did write the memoir. It's called "Either You're In Or You're In the Way" (published by HarperCollins). Have you read it yet? It just became a National Bestseller. I think you'd like it!
The website is www.inorintheway.com
Let me know if you're interested and I can have the guys sign it for you.
Warm regards,
Jeromy Zajonc