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Who IS this woman?

posted 16 years ago by Gondorff4
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I just saw a trailer for GOOD DICK at the Nuart in L.A. (right next door to the video store where apparently much of the film was shot). In addition to being impressed by what looks like a very good film. I was instantly in awe of the beauty and mystery of the leading lady. After doing some research on IMDB I find that she wrote, produced, directed and stars...Too good to be true?
Ms. Palka is obviously a force to be reckoned with. I'm a writer living in L.A. who would love to collaborate with her, though, it seems the last thing she needs is a collaborator.
I look forward to seeing the film, the audience I saw the trailer with laughed a lot and was with it all the way. Congratulations to you Ms. Palka if you ever read these things...

"What's the rumpus?"

[–] jmichaelcremer 16 years ago

I had the chance to meet her tonight in New York at the Sunshine Cinema and she was incredibly nice and very HOT! The Scottish accent totally threw me off! Jason Ritter was also very nice and a cutie as well. Go to the film's website and find out if they will be making appearances at the Nuart or elsewhere near you. They are both very friendly, approachable people.

[–] jfreeman12 16 years ago

Saw this amazing film last night at the Cucalorus Film Festival in Wilmington,NC and she is really amazing. An excellent film by first time writer, director and leading actor. Great audience response and good Q & A after the film by both Mariann and Jason. She and Jason and 2 others are their own production company and are trying to get a distribution company to pick this one up. It deserves a wider audience! There are lots of laughs but the underlying story of the 2 characters is very poignant. Mariann has a great future ahead after this excellent first film.

[–] tintedblueusa 16 years ago

I also attended Cucalorus and saw this movie there. I agree with jfreeman12 wholeheartedly. I don't understand why it has such a low rating.

[–] gauss-cannon 16 years ago

Because it sucks.

Absolute independent crap. Now anybody with two cents to rub together and a videocam in their phone thinks they can make a movie.

If it's so good how come this drivel hasn't been bought?

[–] eden-s-foster 16 years ago

Oh right... every good movie gets bought... we live in utopia! They are distributing it themselves, not necessarily looking to sell.

[–] gauss-cannon 16 years ago

Cream usually rises to the top and crap gets flushed.

The reason Tweedledum and Tweedledee are distributing this vanity project by themselves is because no sane person would ever touch this dreck with a ten-foot pole.

Hollywood executives maybe stupid, but even they can recognize when a project is simply beyond hope.

[–] Shuya_Nobu 16 years ago

NO! I was set to go the showing at the Sunshine! And She was THERE!? I couldn't find anyone to go with me so I decided not to go figuring no one from the production would be there anyway...DAMMIT!

The short one's gawking at me and the tall one's being very droll.

[–] Extinctive 16 years ago

And because YOU are hired to try and get it flushed you're doing your best to get it done a.s.a.p.

And why wouldn't you, you're an abusive father yourself, so nobody is surprised.

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I'm holding an 'I Don't Give A Sh*t'-o-meter and the needle's not moving. - D. Coupland

[–] ronald-walker-1 16 years ago

"Cream usually rises to the top and crap gets flushed."

The way I heard it, it was scum that floats to the top.

Hollywood distributors are motivated almost entirely by profit, and are driven by a simple formula - they queue up to distribute films that "tick all the boxes" (e.g. Happy endings make more money than indecisive endings) And they avoid anything that's not an absolutely sure fire winner with their target (lowbrow, 20-something) audience. Like producers, they quite frequently find that their "formula for making money" is WRONG.

You should check out David Puttnam and Bill Forsyth - director and producer of several low budget movies. "Local Hero" (when long finished) was offered to Warner Brothers for distribution in the USA. Warner Brothers wanted the ending changed - as it was they thought they could make 25% more dollars if it was changed to a happy ending. Both producer and director refused to change it, and told Warners to take it "as is" or leave it. I think a "happy" ending would have ruined the movie - and changing it simply for profit wouldn't have been much different to prostitution. (Both involve setting your principles aside in exchange for relatively small amounts of cash)

[–] Extinctive 16 years ago

Because it hasn't been offered for sale, you dumb fool.

[–] steveo375 16 years ago

I actually hooked up with her once...Crazy huh?

[–] heathermariemiller-1 16 years ago

That would make you "Bad Dick" for putting this info up on the IMDB.