GRADUATION CELEBRATION
24 Apr
Chris Marquette and Shannon Lucio in director Michael Mayer‘s debut Graduation
Congrats to Michael Mayer, a director acquaintance whose first feature Graduation (5/2, Magnolia, trailer) will make its debut at WorldFest Houston tonight (Thursday) and then hit select cities on May 2. The film is about four friends—Chris Marquette (Alpha Dog), Shannon Lucio (The O.C.), Riley Smith (24), and Chris Lowell (Veronica Mars)—who, in order to save a sick friend’s life, decide to rob a bank owned by one’s father (Adam Arkin)… on the day of their high school graduation! As Mayer put it in an email to me, “The film is not only about the heist, but about four lifelong friends facing the end of their high school days together.” Based on this description and the film’s trailer, I sense elements of two of last year’s best films, The Lookout and Superbad, and if it’s even half as good as they are then it will be well worth a look.
Scott, thanks for the blog entry about my film. Things are really gearing up for the May 2 release, and we are getting tons of attention from press and fans. It’s exciting times!
That is Chris Lowell in the picture not Chris Marquette.