The Story
Director's Statement
Status
"One Too Many Mornings" is an independent comedy feature film, shooting on nights and weekends through Summer 2008.
THE STORY: FISCHER can't remember the last time he woke up without a hangover. He lives in a church: a real one. Where people baptize, marry, pray and die. It's an ideal situation for a young guy with no aspirations: if he locks up the church, he can sleep in the back. Free of charge.
6:00am. Tuesday morning. Fischer's old friend from high school shows up unannounced. Even though they haven't seen each other in years, PETER just drove 10 hours straight because his girlfriend of five years just cheated on him. He's looking for a place to hide. To think. To drink. What better place than Fischer's church?
After leaving 50 unanswered voicemails, RUDY shows up four days later. That's Peter's girlfriend. She didn't cheat on him. She did something much worse. She proposed to him.
ONE TOO MANY MORNINGS is the simple story of these friends, realizing that they're strangers to not only each other, but to themselves. They're trying to help each other with that.
They're not very good at it.
DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT:
I almost made a feature film last year. I had a script. I had all the financing. I had all the actors. It was a horror-comedy, and it was all set to go. Right before I was about to pull the trigger and take all my vacation time from work to make it happen, I realized that I did not want devote a year or more to that particular story.
It's no surprise that making an independent film is a hell of a lot of work, and takes a hell of a lot of passion. In thinking of the year in front of me, I realized that I would rather not make a film that year, than potentially make a film I wasn't completely emotionally invested in. That wouldn't be fair to myself, to my crew, or to the audiences watching it.
So instead we wrote ONE TOO MANY MORNINGS. This film is personal. It's about us. It's about our problems. And we put every ounce of emotional truth into it we possibly could. While on the surface it deals with familiar themes of alcoholism and relationships, to me it's more about a much more difficult subject: realizing that your closest friends and loved ones are strangers. What's even more difficult: it's also a comedy.
Now that we're in the position of asking people to invest money and resources (nothing terrifies me more), I'm a lot less afraid. We're going to make this film no matter what, shooting it on nights and weekends. We simply can't afford to do it any other way, and that doesn't bother me. In fact, even though this is going to be 100 times harder than that horror-comedy of last year, I'm looking forward to it 100 times more.
And even though we are making this on a tiny scale, we still need help. We still need support. We still need to find a way to buy a can of paint so that we can make the walls of the donated location we're shooting in not white. Maybe you can buy that can of paint? Maybe that can of paint is collecting dust in your garage? Please click on "you can help" for other examples.
STATUS:
Currently, the film is halfway through production. We've shot everything we can without spending real money and are currently raising the rest so we can shoot the rest in late Summer.
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