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- IMDb page: The Twenty (2009)
- Rate: 6.3/10 total 26 votes
- Genre: Drama | Mystery | Romance
- Director: Chopper Bernet
- Stars: Clancy Brown, Stephanie Niznik and Chopper Bernet
- Original Music By: Andrew Bush
- Plot Keyword: Marriage | Male Female Relationship | Alcoholics Anonymous | Husband Wife Relationship | Recovering Alcoholic
- (in alphabetical order)
- Walter Spring writer
Known Trivia
Plot: Carty has a new baby, a tense marriage, and four months of fragile sobriety. When he discovers a twenty dollar bill with a message written on it, an obsession begins. Will it free him? Or destroy him? Full summary » | »
Story: Carty Fox has struggled with his drinking and the blackouts that attend it for as long as he can remember. But now, having jumped into the sober world one more time, he attempts to find a tiny handhold with which he can pull himself out of the gloom and into a more normal life. But what does that normal life look like? And how does he learn to live in it with his new son and discouraged wife? For Carty, the answer arrives in the form of a message written on a twenty-dollar bill. A message which, much to the chagrin of his family and friends, begins to intrigue him, to take hold of him, and finally drag him into an obsession. An obsession that leads him on a journey into a Lynchian landscape of shame, rage, and pain. A journey that forces him to reflect on his own life and, perhaps, to catch sight of the shadowy person he has imprisoned for all these years in his drunken state of mind. But…Written by Walter Spring
FullCast & Crew
Produced By:
- Chopper Bernet known as executive producer
- David Japka known as producer
- Kurt Kelly known as producer
- Clancy Brown known as John Simmonds
- Stephanie Niznik known as Dot
- Chopper Bernet known as Carty
- Lisa Darr known as Katherine
- Rodney Scott known as Johnny
- Laura Jordan known as Becky
- Laraine Newman known as Sharon
- Michael Raymond-James known as Freeman
- Katy Magnuson known as Lissa
- John Wesley known as George
- William Arbogast known as Bartender (as Bill Arbogast)
- Charles C. Stevenson Jr. known as Dad
- Anthony Cubba known as Seth
Supporting Department
Makeup Department:- Stephanie Kae Panek known as key makeup artist
- Meg Bernet known as property master
- James Ibbotson known as assistant art director
Companies
Production Companies:
- Live Video
- Sassaba Productions
Other Companies:
- Live Video thanks
- Tisherman Gilbert Motley Drozdoski Talent Agency (TGMD) thanks
Distributors:
- Osiris Entertainment (2010) (USA) (DVD)
Other Stuff
Visual Effects by:- Suny Behar known as colorist
- Victor Ruano known as visual effects artist
- USA 7 March 2009 (Beaufort International Film Festival)
- USA 16 April 2009 (Tallahassee Film Festival)
Filmography links and data courtesy of The Internet Movie Database
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17 Nov 2011, 7:30 am
While some deeper development of players might have helped and some scenes are slow, Chopper Bernet's gorgeously shot film and his telling, cinema verite camera style and long, crawling holds on shots conveys a felt and unsettling atmosphere. His talented actors – which includes Bernet in the lead role – render a palpable life of the damned as each person in this small town who the main character encounters struggles with regret or acts they can't undo.
In that regard, it's a realistic depiction of the hardening that can take over lives when it feels like someone should pay the karma, for us, maybe by our hand…but in real life you're lucky if you even get a shot at resolution, or one that clean. The reassuring thing might be that we are sometimes someone else's salvation, and to withdraw from that second chance is to court destruction all over again. Carty Fox of The Twenty, like a lot of us, has no idea where he's headed, and thankfully he doesn't spare us with bromides and fairy tales about how everything turns around when you stop the drinking or act better. Getting clear might just be enough. It's a messy little movie, uneven and raw. It should be.
17 Nov 2011, 7:30 am
That being said, I was very disappointed in it. The storyline ended up being pretty lame, the acting was decent, but b/c the story was so lame it didn't really matter. The film was long and boring I just couldn't wait for it to end.
I think Chopper Burnet is a pretty cool guy. He seemed to know a lot about the industry and I found him to be a very likable guy, however, this movie just left me scratching my head as to how he got this thing financed. I heard the budget was $500k.