The Cure for Boredom (2001)

Director:

Ruben Preuss

Writer:

James Harris

Genre:

Comedy

Plot:

Sex, love and murder abound when two guys, two waitresses and a group of mobsters meet. |

Plot Keywords:

Independent Film

Cast

Sunda Croonquist	...	Sunda (as Sunda Lynn Croonquist)
Brad Grunberg	...	Johnny Ragoni
Judd Nelson	...	Max
Seymour Cassel	...	Eddie
Joe Viterelli	...	Fat Tony Ragoni
Sal Viscuso	...	Joey
Paul Ben-Victor	...	Rudy (as Paul Ben Victor)
Mark Stuart Lane	...	Frankie (as Mark Lane)
William Webb	...	Vito
John Hoyt	...	Mikey (as John Glenn Hoyt)
Christopher Berry	...	Sam
James Harris	...	Burt
Amy Hathaway	...	Betty
Marisa Ryan	...	Dayna
Maureen McGovern	...	Waitress
Bill Evans	...	Bartender
Rachel Bovino	...	Rachel

Directed by
Ruben Preuss

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
James Harris

Produced by
Jerald Bovino	....	associate producer
James Harris	....	associate producer
Mark Stuart Lane	....	executive producer
Michael S. Murphey	....	producer (as Michael Murphey)
Ruben Preuss	....	producer
Miguel Tejada-Flores	....	producer
Michael 'Spike' Van Briesen	....	line producer

Original Music by
Gigi Meroni

Cinematography by
Zoran Hochstätter

Film Editing by
David Kern

Casting by
Gale Salus

Production Design by
Chris Frank		(as Christopher Frank)

Art Direction by
Mickey Breitenstein

Set Decoration by
Amy Brownson

Costume Design by
Rory Cunningham

Makeup Department
Kimberly Eckhout	....	key makeup artist
Dolly Greene	....	key makeup artist
Keleigh Lippert	....	hair stylist

Production Management
Joel C. Peterson	....	production manager (as Joel Peterson)

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Edward Kalpa	....	second second assistant director
Daniel R. Suhart	....	second assistant director (as Dan Suhart)
Greg Webb	....	first assistant director

Art Department
Scott Breitenstein	....	swing gang
David Craig	....	swing gang
Daniel Davis	....	swing gang
Matthew Krueger	....	scenic artist
Joshua Sundby	....	property master

Sound Department
Kevin Maloney	....	boom operator
Ed White	....	sound mixer

Special Effects by
Mark R. Byers	....	special effects coordinator
Dennis Dion	....	special effects coordinator

Stunts
Mickey Breitenstein	....	stunt coordinator
Aliza Washabaugh	....	stunt double: Betty

Camera and Electrical Department
Ross Addiego	....	additional dolly grip
Andrew Belvedere	....	still photographer
Richard E. Garcia	....	camera loader (as Richard Garcia)
Emily Mackley	....	first assistant camera
Thomas S. Pelkowski	....	second assistant camera
Pablo Santiago-Brandwein	....	best boy grip
Carrie Wassenaar	....	camera loader

Casting Department
Bill Timoney	....	casting associate

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Deirdre C. Salomone	....	key costumer

Editorial Department
Troy Niemans	....	assembly editor

Transportation Department
Bruce Comtois	....	transportation captain

Other crew
Kasey L. Allee	....	production accountant (as Kasey Allee)
Aleksandra Karpov	....	assistant production coordinator
Michael Percival	....	location manager
Barbara Rushworth	....	script supervisor

Production Companies

• Film Three, L.P.

Distributors

• Creative Light Video (2000) (USA) (DVD)
• RCV Home Entertainment (2002) (Netherlands) (DVD) (VHS)
• Showcase Entertainment (2000-2003) (non-USA) (all media)

Other Companies

• Chapman/Leonard Studio Equipment  camera dollies

Also Known As:

"Sex & Bullets" - USA (alternative title)

MPAA:

Rated R for language, some violence, sexuality and brief drug use

Runtime:

87 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

USA:R | Iceland:16

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Film Three, L.P.

May Have Been Intended As A Type Of "Black Comedy", But Never Actually Becomes Much Of Anything.

One wishes to favour this film, as it would seem to contain certain bizarre elements that would make for a successful comedy, but a script that is vulgar, roughly composed, and simply not very funny lowers the overall quality of the work. Action opens as a pair of contract killers, Max (Judd Nelson) and Eddie (Seymour Cassel) are polishing off a young man, son of organized crime head Fat Tony Ragoni but, after the assignment is completed, instead of promptly making themselves elusive, a witless script has Max demanding to go into a local convenience store where he propositions a tipsy young woman by posing as a doctor, adding that he is, in fact, a "sex therapist". Betty (Amy Hathaway), his pickup, has traipsed to the store to be, indeed, picked up, as she drunkenly has stated to her roommate Dayna (Marisa Ryan) and she, with murdering Max in tow and apparently satisfactory for her intentions, returns to the women's apartment for further consideration of mindless frolic. Dayna, not wishing to contend with the clamour of amoUrous merrymaking, instead goes to a local restaurant whereupon she meets Sam (Christopher Berry) and Burt (James Harris), roommates themselves, who plainly have no particular purpose in life, although an audience must deal with the misfortune of listening to Burt's weak attempts at being humorous. Meanwhile, Fat Tony (Joe Viterelli), desirous of bidding a proper goodbye to the corpse of his slain son, deposited within the trunk of Eddie's vehicle, assigns two thugs to locate the killers in well-cast scenes that would have been more enjoyable if under the control of skillful direction. To complicate matters even more, a low grade criminal employed by Fat Tony steals a car that just happens to be Eddie's, with its body laden trunk, at about which time Eddie chooses to reveal himself as a homosexual, attempting to seduce Sam in a clumsily artificial sequence, all while Dayna is acquainting Burt, a confessed virgin, with the delights of heterosexual lovemaking. Views concerning sexual recreation are discussed often in needful tones by a good many of the characters during this tale that ostensibly looked to be appealing upon paper, but is manifestly undernourished as a production while burdened with a narrative that is ineffectively worked out. Attempts at whimsy by Harris, as either actor or scriptor, are consistently jejune, particularly so relating to dialogue, with Hathaway, as the sole player secure with a part's interpretation, garnering acting laurels in this disappointing affair that wants for a much tighter hand at the helm.