Field Day (2004)

User Rating:

3.9/10   

Director:

John O'Shaughnessy

Writer:

Jeanne Marie Spicuzza (writer)

Release Date:

10 January 2005 (USA)

Genre:

Short | Drama

Tagline:

Sometimes the horrors of the past are the lessons of the future.

Plot:

A group of youths invite an unsuspecting history student to play a surreal war game which reckons the past and proves to be a worthy lesson for the future.

Cast

Jeanne Marie Spicuzza	...	Angela
Will Keir	...	Chris
Billy Bradley	...	Riley
Rudy Dobrev	...	Joey (as Robert DoBrev)
James Black	...	Kai
Josh Guerrin	...	Prisoner of War #1
Frederik Hamel	...	Prisoner of War #2
Derek Yu	...	Viet Cong Soldier #1
Chris McLaughlin	...	Viet Cong Soldier #2
Max the Lizard	...	Mini-Max the Waterdragon

Directed by
John O'Shaughnessy

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Jeanne Marie Spicuzza		writer

Produced by
Jeanne Marie Spicuzza	....	executive producer
Isabelle Stead	....	producer

Original Music by
Guy Hoffman
Brice Martin
Michael S. Patterson

Cinematography by
John O'Shaughnessy

Film Editing by
John O'Shaughnessy

Casting by
Davida Vaccaro

Costume Design by
Lisa Ormiston

Makeup Department
Stephanie Bravo	....	key makeup artist

Production Management
Isabelle Stead	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Ed Cha	....	first assistant director
Ken Dean	....	second assistant director

Art Department
Ray Harris	....	storyboard artist

Sound Department
Michael Nevius	....	boom operator
Becca Justine Yannone	....	boom operator
Rudy Zasloff	....	sound mixer

Camera and Electrical Department
Lynn King	....	gaffer
Roy Kwalk	....	grip
Dario SanMiguel	....	key grip

Music Department
Guy Hoffman	....	music supervisor

Other crew
Sabine Bradley	....	animal wrangler
Rosemary Leeson	....	script supervisor
Rick Rosenthal	....	production counsel
Hanna Strauss	....	animal wrangler
Mike Tristano	....	weapons master

Thanks
Jeff Blauvelt	....	special thanks
Noam Chomsky	....	special thanks
Ralph Nader	....	special thanks
Jean Rudney	....	special thanks
Tyler Smith	....	special thanks

Production Companies

• seasons & a muse

Distributors

• Digital Video Networks Ltd. (2004) (UK) (DVD)
• INOCULATION/group (2004) (worldwide) (DVD)
• Screen International (2004) (UK) (DVD)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

seasons & a muse

Trivia:

In the United States, it's easier to buy a real firearm than to rent a prop gun for an anti-war film.

Quotes:

Chris: They're deciding... and we're dying.

Soundtrack:

Let the Mermaids Flirt With Me

Great movie, excellent message!

The visuals in this film are spectacular! The lighting is artfully executed. The story, very well-written by Ms. Spicuzza, follows a graduate student who has studied American history, the first step in education, but has never truly experienced the inhumanity and corruption of the business of war. As we witness some of the dreadful similarities between Vietnam and Iraq, its attacks on the poor, "Field Day" offers us a personal approach to these themes, I hail the filmmakers for their daring. I'm not surprised that I haven't seen this picture in a multitude of festivals. The material is simply too controversial, which is what makes the work truly shine.