Adopt a Sailor (2008)

Director:

Charles Evered

Writer:

Charles Evered (writer)

Release Date:

5 January 2009 (France)

Genre:

Drama

Tagline:

He fell out of a plane and into their lives.

Plot:

A self-involved New York couple adopt a sailor during Fleet Week.

Plot Keywords:

Based On Play

Cast

Bebe Neuwirth	...	Patricia
Peter Coyote	...	Richard
Ethan Peck	...	Sailor
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Lezly Clayton	...	Woman #1 in Time Square
Scot Cregan	...	Navy Lieutenant
Patrick Evans	...	Pete the golfer
Jenel Fontes	...	Woman #2 in Time Square
Renae Madore	...	Woman in Port Authority
Wendy Rolfe Evered	...	USO Worker (as Wendy Rolfe Evered)
Christopher Scholl	...	Navy Commander
Griffin Wade	...	Boy in USO
Jon Wagner	...	Jon the golfer

Directed by
Charles Evered

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Charles Evered		writer

Produced by
Sherry Halperin	....	producer
David Ho	....	producer
Sarah Johnson	....	associate producer
Audrey Loggia	....	producer
Mike Marix	....	executive producer
Mark Victor	....	producer
Kim Waltrip	....	executive producer
Kim Waltrip	....	line producer
Kim Waltrip	....	producer

Original Music by
Joshua Fardon

Cinematography by
Ulf Soderqvist

Film Editing by
Marty James

Production Design by
David Borgula

Makeup Department
Judy Twine	....	key hair stylist
Judy Twine	....	key makeup artist

Production Management
David Ho	....	post-production supervisor

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Suzanne LaBelle	....	second assistant director
Jim McKinney	....	first assistant director

Sound Department
Lorita de la Cerna	....	foley artist
Lorita de la Cerna	....	foley mixer & editor
Randy Dzielak	....	boom operator
Michael Gassert	....	adr recordist
Diane Greco	....	foley artist
David Ho	....	sound effects editor

Camera and Electrical Department
Simon Soderqvist	....	assistant camera

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Caryl Eagle	....	wardrobe

Music Department
Joshua Fardon	....	composer: theme music

Other crew
Anthony Baltierra	....	production assistant
Shirin June Behrouzfard	....	production assistant
Steve Choi	....	production assistant
Kevin Cramer	....	production assistant
Chris Cronin	....	production assistant
Jason Gayler	....	production accountant
Anthony Grippa	....	production assistant
Suzanne LaBelle	....	production coordinator
Audrey Norris	....	script supervisor
Christopher Scholl	....	naval technical advisor
Matthew Shaker	....	stand-in
Jessi Sundell	....	production assistant
Amy Szilagyi	....	production assistant
Elizabeth Carol Thompson	....	naval technical advisor
Sasha Young	....	production assistant

Thanks
Bob Anderson	....	grateful acknowledgment (as Cdr. Robert Anderson)
Amy Lovato	....	grateful acknowledgment
Christine Murphy	....	special thanks
Caroldean Ross	....	sincere thanks
Elizabeth Carol Thompson	....	sincere thanks
Brian Whiting	....	very special thanks

Production Companies

• Kim and Jim Productions
• WonderStar Productions

Distributors

• Echo Bridge Home Entertainment (2010) (USA) (all media)
• Film1 (2012) (Netherlands) (TV) (limited)

Other Companies

• Film Emporium  E&O insurance
• Klass Entertainment  product placement

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Filming Locations:

USS Wasp

Company:

Kim and Jim Productions

Trivia:

Adopt a Sailor was nominated for a Best Drama award at the California Independent Film Festival, 2009.

Movie Connections:

References On the Town (1949)

Intersections

Charles Evered first wrote the play on which this film is based and then turned that play into a movie, directing it with all the sensitive promise of the script. It is a pleasure to experience this little low budget Indie and be swept up in the honest manner in which it invites us to look at our lives from a different perspective.

It is Fleet Week in New York, a time when sailors about to be shipped out to duty are given an evening of freedom with the option of accepting the invitation of families to invite them into their homes as a farewell. A young HM3 (navy corpsman) from Turkey Scratch, Arkansas played with poetic sensitivity by Ethan Peck (grandson of Gregory Peck) is serendipitously 'adopted' by a dysfunctional New York couple - Patricia (Bebe Neuwirth) runs a gallery and husband Richard (Peter Coyote) makes films. As Patricia responds to the sailor's wonder, 'Movies are what people what to go see, films are what you try to convince people to see' - evidence that Patricia has been supporting the marriage so that Richard doesn't have to work except to make unwanted films: the couple is nearing dissolution. Through one evening of conversation Patricia and Richard voice their failing love, the sailor maintains an innocence about life in the big city and in doing so shares some of his own small town fears and frustrations about becoming an adult- and the three people find a new look on their lives as a result. The film is at once hilarious, verbally brutal, revealing, and genuinely tender as these three people's lives intersect to find new and healthy direction.

Ethan Peck is absolutely extraordinary in maintaining his innocent near-angel role, never becoming mawkish or a parody of 'Southern uneducated kids'. He is a joy throughout the film and demonstrates that he is an actor of great promise. Bebe Neuwirth and Peter Coyote are both solid and polished actors and make us examine their decadent marriage without allowing the viewer to take sides but instead to ache for both of them. The film is a jewel and speaks especially loudly about the young lads who are being sent off to war. Charles Evered is a major talent to watch. Highly Recommended.

Grady Harp