It's a full-blown Canada & US theatric run. Some say it's close to 200 cinema's in Canada alone, SO, doing some rough math for an A-release, then 1000-ish cinema or more in dee States. But that's just a guess, OK?
Civic Duty (2007, 98', 35mm[1.85:1?], colour, stereo, USA/Canada)
"Where does legitimate concern end and paranoia begin? A man finds himself walking that fine line in this tense independent drama. Terry Allen (Peter Krause) is an accountant who lives a seemingly ordinary life until he loses his job. Unable to buy the new house he was hoping to get for his fiancée, Marla (Kari Matchett), Terry spends most of time in his apartment, looking for job leads, sending out resumés, and feeling increasingly powerless. As Terry watches more and more stories about the war on terror on cable news channels, he begins developing an intense suspicion of his new neighbor Gabe Hassan (Khaled Abol Naga), an Arab exchange student. Terry notices Gabe keeps late hours, takes out his trash in the middle of the night, and has a lot of visitors of Middle Eastern descent dropping by his flat, and slowly Terry becomes convinced Gabe is involved in terrorist activities. Terry visits Tom Hillary (Richard Schiff), an FBI agent, and tells him about Gabe and his habits; Tom doesn't pay much attention to what Terry has to say, and convinced danger lurks, he decides to take the law into his own hands. Civic Duty received its world premiere at the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide [movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=347384]
Six Feet Under's Peter Krause plays, Terry Allen (lead role) - imdb.com/name/nm0470244/
Egyptian-actor, Khaled Abol Naga plays, Gabe Hassan - imdb.com/name/nm1178100/
West Wings Richard Schiff plays, Agent Hillary - imdb.com/name/nm0771493/
Invasion's Kari Matchett plays, Marla - http://imdb.com/name/nm0558182/
4400 & Intelligence's Ian Tracey plays, Lt. Lloyd - imdb.com/name/nm0870439/
CD dir/editor: Jeff Renfroe - imdb.com/name/nm1199954/
See folks in this post-911 created era, it is sooooooooo refreshin' to have a film that not only confronts dee racism created by said event, but puts it in dee true perspective and light. All you Krausean fangirls'n'boys would be sooo proud of your homeboy. We're finally talkin' Oscar for dear-old Peter folks, a good way to put dee Emmy defeat behind him!!! PLUS, his co-star & Egyptian acting superstar, Khaled Abol Naga plays dee Islamic graduate student
Gabe Hassan. Khaled is like dee Egyptian "Tom Cruise" and this is his break-through north american film. Smart move Khaled!!!
Civic Duty will put both of them on dee map, as dee serious Oscar-actors that they are!!! As a filmmaker myself, I just like to say that my dear friend and CD writer/director, Jeff
[now with 2 f's] Renfroe, deserves more praise for pulling off a careful balance of dealing with dee true nature of our times, with a need to uncover this needless and unkind racism that exists towards Arabs, and other visible minorities of dee earth. With that said, most people will make dee obvious comparison to Hitchcock's
Rear Window (people already have, and will continue to do so), and in speaking to Renfroe about it said, he "hates it. It's not a remake of
Rear Window, and wishes people would stop making dee comparisons. My film holds up just as well on it own thank you very much. Shang! Shang!!!" (paraphrasing here). Personally I loved Renfroe's original tagline: "Are You Doing Yours?" But for some strange reason dee distributor decided to change it to: "Know Thy Neighbor!" I hate that tagline. Someone please change it back to Jefro's original one. OK? It sums up his film best. Btw, are you doing your civic duty folks!!! Just practising. I smell Oscar acceptance-speech territory here?
Viddy U well then....
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Droog #26 dee Minister of Anthropology
@ shangorama.comPS - Watch dee CD trailor:
tribecafilmfestival.org/tixSYS/2006/filmguide/event_np_trailer.php?EventNumber=3691
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