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Girl, 3 Guys and a Gun, A
New Concorde // R // December 11, 2001
List Price: $19.98 [Buy now and save at Amazon]
The Movie:
A Girl 3 Guys & a Gun is a family affair. Written, produced, directed, and starring Brent Florence, the film was produced by Florence pére and features mére and pére in the background of a shot. The movie seems to have been made mostly on the family ranch in Ojai, California, The story itself has been brewing in the director's mind for some time. It began as a black and white Super 8 short made one summer called The Sorted Ones, and graduated to a feature film sometime later.
I picked up this DVD because Natasha Henstridge was announced as staring, but in fact she has a silent walk on. She appears near the beginning of Chapter Two as the "5 O'clock Girl." The rest of the movie concerns three friends. One of them, Frank (Florence), is dumped by his girlfriend, so he and the rest of them, Neil (Christian Leffler) and Joey (Kenny Luper) decide that the small town they live in cannot contain their large talents. But in order to skip town, according to slacker logic, they first need to rob the local bingo game. Later, as they wend their way through the twisty, dusty backroads of their town, they run into the blond haired Dave (Josh Holland) and his running-away-from-home girlfriend, the symbolically named Hope (Tracy Zahoryin). The lads proceed to show the girl Dave's true colors, so that Frank and Hope can make a connection. By the end of the movie, the law finally catches up with everybody, and Hope is corresponding with the imprisoned Frank, who does community service in the same bingo parlor with his two pals.
This is one of those vanity productions in which the whole story is geared to privileging the main character, who must find true love. That being said, producer-director-writer Florence does expand his palette to include some town eccentrics, and to explore the character of his two buddies. Everybody sort of looks the same, so you have to concentrate quite a bit on the narrative, which, sadly, doesn't bear a whole lot of fruit. In the end, though, A Girl 3 Guys & a Gun is a first effort that shows a little bit of promise.
The DVD
VIDEO: New Concorde has given Mr. Florence his head with this disc, and A Girl 3 Guys & a Gun comes laden with extras. In payment, Roger Corman receives the first of the disc's cast and crew bios. The film itself appears to have been shot on digital video, then transferred to film; it has that clear yet sometimes ghostly look to it when the camera pans. It's a widescreen image (1.85:1) with a lot of brown and yellow hues provided by cinematographer Matthew W. Davis. By the way, the film is also advertised as "from the executive producer of Snow Falling on Cedars, which is one Lloyd A. Silverman, who also has a cast-bulking cameo.
SOUND: The sound option consists of two channel Dolby Digital, with no subtitles. The soundtrack suits the limited needs of the movie, though it is a film with a vigorous mostly original soundtrack.
MENUS: An animated, musical menu, using some of the original songs from the film, offers 24 chapter scene selection for this 88 minute movie.
PACKAGING: A Girl 3 Guys & a Gun comes in a keep case whose cover art shows most of the cast looking very Melrose Place. The box is at least honest about the level of Henstridge's participation: she isn't mentioned.
EXTRAS: Besides scene selection and a bunch of trailers for other New Concorde films (Up Against Amanda, Raptor, and Hard as Nails), and one-to-two screens worth of bios for Corman, Florence, Holland, Zahoryin, Luper, and Leffler, the disc offers no less than two audio commentary tracks. Florence is on both of them: on the first he is joined by music designer Todd Hannigan, on the second by Hannigan, cinematographer Davis, Luper, Leffler, and crew man of all trades Bret Haley. Both are highly informative. Finally, there is about seven-and-a-half minutes of moderately amusing bloopers, and the "original" trailer.
Final Thoughts: Just as A Girl 3 Guys & a Gun is a work of great love and commitment on the part of its makers, it requires reciprocating affection from the viewer to succeed. If the viewer indeed does fall for the film, an excellent array of extras will fan the flames of that passion.
A Girl 3 Guys & a Gun is a family affair. Written, produced, directed, and starring Brent Florence, the film was produced by Florence pére and features mére and pére in the background of a shot. The movie seems to have been made mostly on the family ranch in Ojai, California, The story itself has been brewing in the director's mind for some time. It began as a black and white Super 8 short made one summer called The Sorted Ones, and graduated to a feature film sometime later.
I picked up this DVD because Natasha Henstridge was announced as staring, but in fact she has a silent walk on. She appears near the beginning of Chapter Two as the "5 O'clock Girl." The rest of the movie concerns three friends. One of them, Frank (Florence), is dumped by his girlfriend, so he and the rest of them, Neil (Christian Leffler) and Joey (Kenny Luper) decide that the small town they live in cannot contain their large talents. But in order to skip town, according to slacker logic, they first need to rob the local bingo game. Later, as they wend their way through the twisty, dusty backroads of their town, they run into the blond haired Dave (Josh Holland) and his running-away-from-home girlfriend, the symbolically named Hope (Tracy Zahoryin). The lads proceed to show the girl Dave's true colors, so that Frank and Hope can make a connection. By the end of the movie, the law finally catches up with everybody, and Hope is corresponding with the imprisoned Frank, who does community service in the same bingo parlor with his two pals.
This is one of those vanity productions in which the whole story is geared to privileging the main character, who must find true love. That being said, producer-director-writer Florence does expand his palette to include some town eccentrics, and to explore the character of his two buddies. Everybody sort of looks the same, so you have to concentrate quite a bit on the narrative, which, sadly, doesn't bear a whole lot of fruit. In the end, though, A Girl 3 Guys & a Gun is a first effort that shows a little bit of promise.
The DVD
VIDEO: New Concorde has given Mr. Florence his head with this disc, and A Girl 3 Guys & a Gun comes laden with extras. In payment, Roger Corman receives the first of the disc's cast and crew bios. The film itself appears to have been shot on digital video, then transferred to film; it has that clear yet sometimes ghostly look to it when the camera pans. It's a widescreen image (1.85:1) with a lot of brown and yellow hues provided by cinematographer Matthew W. Davis. By the way, the film is also advertised as "from the executive producer of Snow Falling on Cedars, which is one Lloyd A. Silverman, who also has a cast-bulking cameo.
SOUND: The sound option consists of two channel Dolby Digital, with no subtitles. The soundtrack suits the limited needs of the movie, though it is a film with a vigorous mostly original soundtrack.
MENUS: An animated, musical menu, using some of the original songs from the film, offers 24 chapter scene selection for this 88 minute movie.
PACKAGING: A Girl 3 Guys & a Gun comes in a keep case whose cover art shows most of the cast looking very Melrose Place. The box is at least honest about the level of Henstridge's participation: she isn't mentioned.
EXTRAS: Besides scene selection and a bunch of trailers for other New Concorde films (Up Against Amanda, Raptor, and Hard as Nails), and one-to-two screens worth of bios for Corman, Florence, Holland, Zahoryin, Luper, and Leffler, the disc offers no less than two audio commentary tracks. Florence is on both of them: on the first he is joined by music designer Todd Hannigan, on the second by Hannigan, cinematographer Davis, Luper, Leffler, and crew man of all trades Bret Haley. Both are highly informative. Finally, there is about seven-and-a-half minutes of moderately amusing bloopers, and the "original" trailer.
Final Thoughts: Just as A Girl 3 Guys & a Gun is a work of great love and commitment on the part of its makers, it requires reciprocating affection from the viewer to succeed. If the viewer indeed does fall for the film, an excellent array of extras will fan the flames of that passion.
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