The Adventures of Sebastian Cole (1998)

Director:

Tod Williams

Writer:

Tod Williams (written by)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama

Plot:

In June, 1983, in Dutchess County, New York, Sebastian Cole joins his mother, step-father, and sister for dinner...

Plot Keywords:

High School | England | Friendship | Spanish | College Acceptance Letter

Awards:

4 nominations

Cast

Adrian Grenier	...	Sebastian Cole
Clark Gregg	...	Hank / Henrietta Rossi
Aleksa Palladino	...	Mary
Margaret Colin	...	Joan Cole
John Shea	...	Hartley
Marni Lustig	...	Jessica Cole
Joan Copeland	...	Grandmother
Tom Lacy	...	Grandfather
Gabriel Macht	...	Troy
Herbert Russell	...	Wayne (as Russel Harper)
Greg Haberny	...	Jimmy Bogardus
Peter McRobbie	...	Principal
Merritt Wever	...	Susan
Marisol Padilla Sánchez	...	Woman In Desert
Rory Cochrane	...	Chinatown
Levon Helm	...	Juvie Bob
Famke Janssen	...	Fiona
Tennison Hightower	...	Anne
Nicole Ari Parker	...	Nurse Jenny
Graeme Malcolm	...	John
Dan Tedlie	...	Hall Monitor
Miguel Nájera	...	Man In Desert
Jane Jensen	...	Nightclub Girl
C.S. O'Brien	...	Batting Cage Guy
Nikki Liberti	...	Waitress
Joe Lisi	...	Concrete Guy
Tod Williams	...	Liquor Store Guy (as Kip Williams)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Joseph C. Felece	...	Gym Teacher (uncredited)
Francis Maiorino	...	Gator (uncredited)

Directed by
Tod Williams

Writing credits
Tod Williams		(written by)

Produced by
Karen Barber	....	producer
Jasmine Kosovic	....	producer

Original Music by
Elizabeth Swados

Cinematography by
John Foster

Film Editing by
Affonso Gonçalves

Casting by
Ann Goulder

Costume Design by
Eric Daman

Makeup Department
Kerrie R. Plant	....	key makeup artist

Production Management
Kendall McCarthy	....	post-production supervisor

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Neil Daly	....	assistant director
Jeff Huston	....	second assistant director
Russell Parr	....	second second assistant director
Guy H. Rocourt II	....	first assistant director
Duncan White	....	first assistant director: additional photography

Art Department
John K. Berry	....	grip: Los Angeles
Heather Dunbar	....	set dresser
Kyle Kinsella	....	property master
Riel Paley	....	set dresser

Sound Department
Tom Efinger	....	sound
Robert Fernandez	....	sound
Amishjim Schulze	....	boom operator
Thomas Varga	....	sound mixer
Thomas Varga	....	sound
Damian Volpe	....	sound editor

Stunts
Jeffrey Lee Gibson	....	stunt coordinator (as Jeffery Gibson)

Camera and Electrical Department
Nicholas R. Bell	....	third grip
Paul Burns	....	Steadicam operator
Casey Campbell	....	gaffer
Riad Deeb	....	grip
Kate Fix	....	second assistant camera
Alan Jacobsen	....	gaffer: Los Angeles
Tom Jensen	....	first assistant camera: Los Angeles
Adam Silver	....	electrician
Jason Summers	....	first assistant camera

Casting Department
Rebecca L. Murray	....	casting assistant

Editorial Department
Jim Finn	....	negative cutter
Harry Muller	....	color timer

Music Department
Buck Damon	....	music consultant
Lynn Geller	....	music supervisor
Amanda Scheer-Demme	....	music supervisor

Other crew
Jennifer Latham	....	location manager
Francis Maiorino	....	key set assistant
Ted Roach	....	production coordinator: Los Angeles
Maureen Tuohy	....	script supervisor

Thanks
Ted Hope	....	special thanks
Cole Sebastian	....	special thanks

Production Companies

• Culpan Productions LLC

Distributors

• CMV Laservision (2009) (Germany) (DVD)
• Oasis International (worldwide rights excluding USA)
• Paramount Classics (1999) (USA)

Other Companies

• Chapman/Leonard Studio Equipment  camera dollies

Also Known As:

MPAA:

Rated R for language and crude sexual references, and for some substance abuse

Runtime:

99 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby SR

Certification:

Iceland:L | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Clermont, New York, USA

Company:

Culpan Productions LLC

Trivia:

John Shea and Margaret Colin also play a divorced couple in Gossip Girl.

Goofs:

Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Sebastian has his accident you hear the tires squealing, but he is clearly driving on a dirt road.

Quotes:

Mary:You taste sour.
Sebastian Cole:You taste sweet.
Mary:I am sweet.
Sebastian Cole:Well, I'm sour.
Mary:I don't mind.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Frame on the Wall: The Making of 'The Door in the Floor' (2004) (V)

Soundtrack:

Call Me

A touching coming-of-age story filled with wit and irony

The Adventures of Sebastian Cole is a movie about Sebastian, a teenage boy who has an extremely dysfunctional family. His father is married to a South East Asian woman and is hardly ever around. His mother is married to a man named Hank. She has a partial breakdown when Hank reveals that he is going to have a sex change operation. She takes Sebastian and moves back to her homeland England. Sebastian doesn't like England so he goes back to stay with his step father Hank, who is now in the process of becoming a woman and called Henrietta. While staying with her he has many intentional adventures that he plans on using in a novel that he wants to write. These adventures include nearly drinking himself to death, getting high from a whip cream bottle, being with a girl named Mary, and riding his bike through the halls of his school as a masked man. The movie had many different plot twists but some of the story became dragged out longer than it should off. Still when it reached the end I found myself in tears, which I would consider a good quality because it means that I became close enough to the characters to become emotionally involved.

The acting was good, especially the performance of Adrian Grenier. I loved him as Sebastian. He was comical and dramatic. Sebastian was maturing though out the film but still had a lot to learn about life. Adrian Grenier knew how to become this character and I think that his performance was phenomenal.