Slingshot (2005)

User Rating:

4.9/10   

Director:

Jay Alaimo

Writers:

Matthew Martin (writer) and
Jay Alaimo (screenplay)

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Romance

Tagline:

Two cunning and manipulative drifters venture into Farifield County, Connecticut looking to seduce wealthy and lonely housewives.

Plot Keywords:

Gay Slur | Diner | Conneticut | Sociopath | Nudity

Cast

David Arquette	...	Ash
Thora Birch	...	April
Balthazar Getty	...	Taylor
Julianna Margulies	...	Karen
Joely Fisher	...	Emma
Michael Janik	...	Dickson
Svetlana Metkina	...	Fast Bobby
Lillo Brancato	...	DJ
Katie Chonacas	...	Ruby
Sara Colton	...	Constance
Katherine Cunningham-Eves	...	Tina
Spencer Diamond	...	Tracey
Patrick Dizney	...	Gerry
Rachel Konstantin	...	Candice
Andrea Leigh	...	Joy

MPAA:

Rated R for pervasive language, drug use, some sexuality and violence.

Runtime:

90 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

USA:R | Argentina:13 | Finland:K-13

Filming Locations:

Connecticut, USA

Company:

Bold Films

Quotes:

Tracey: You're not some kind of child molester, are you?
Ash: If I was a child molester, would I tell you about it?
Tracey: [ponders a beat] Good point.

Movie Connections:

Features Where the Day Takes You (1992)

Soundtrack:

Reach For The Moon

Good indie movie

Glad to see this is finally out on DVD. It's nice to see these actors on screen and in roles that suit them well. Gotta love Arquette, Birch, Marquiles and Getty. I wish more movies like this were made these days. It felt, to me, like a movie in the vein of the great indie dramas of the early 90s - the ones that also had a good amount of real life humor but also had real characters. Hopefully it's not a dying breed. I don't mean to imply that this movie is a talky, unplotted movie like Clerks or Pompetus of Love (nothing against those films). This is absolutely a genre film - a con film - it's just done in a sort of different tone than others.

I don't know how this movie did theatrically but it's a definitely worth a rent. I think of it as a hang out movie, to use a Quentin Tarantino phrase, the kind of movie where you really enjoy hanging out with the characters.