OVERNIGHT
Last night, I was having dinner at Carmine's, one of my favorite local restaurants, and began chatting with our waiter, Frankie Mosca. I introduced myself to Frankie the last time I was in for dinner after I overheard him telling some other patrons about the ups-and-downs of his other career as a filmmaker. Since that visit, he was the subject of an interesting profile in the local paper, and has continued to struggle to complete his passion-project, entitled This Wretched Life. Anyway, last night, while discussing Hollywood's ruthless and corrupting ways, Frankie mentioned a fairly recent film on that very subject which had somehow skipped over my radar—a documentary called Overnight (2003), which, according to IMDB, captures the remarkable "rise and stumble of Troy Duffy, the bartender-cum-filmmaker who was swept up by Miramax's Harvey Weinstein to turn his script for The Boondock Saints into a feature film." I saw the completed film version of The Boondock Saints (1999), which stars Willem Dafoe in a slick orgy of violence that has made it a cult favorite among many young people, but it never quite won me over. Nevertheless, I've just ordered a DVD of Overnight on Amazon, and look forward to checking it out. You can check out its trailer below...
