Seven Days in Utopia (2011)

Director:

Matt Russell

Writers:

David Cook (screenplay) &
Rob Levine (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:

2 September 2011 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Sport

Tagline:

Life is never the same once you've been to Utopia.

Plot:

After a disastrous debut on the pro circuit, a young golfer finds himself unexpectedly stranded in Utopia, Texas and welcomed by an eccentric rancher. |

Plot Keywords:

Golfer | Ranch | Place Name In Title | Golf Movie | Golf

Awards:

5 nominations

Cast

Kathy Baker	...	Mabel
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Robert Bear	...	Chuck
Lucas Black	...	Luke Chisholm
Dora Madison Burge	...	Hannah chisolm (as Madison Burge)
Brady Coleman	...	Patron
Kim de Patri	...	Golfer
Richard Dillard	...	Golfer #1
Robert Duvall	...	Johnny Crawford
Jerry Ferrara	...	Joe Buckner
Brian Geraghty	...	Jake
Sarah Jayne Jensen	...	Maggie Swanson
Melissa Leo	...	Lily
Josh Painting	...	Duane
Ezra Proch	...	Young Luke Chisolm
Destiny Soria	...	Golf Fan
Joseph Lyle Taylor	...	Martin Chislom
Sally Vahle	...	Mary Chisum
Deborah Ann Woll	...	Sarah
Kim Couture	...	Golf Fan (uncredited)
Kim Couture	...	Golf Fan (uncredited)
Mitchell Rad	...	Valero Texas Open Gallery Fan (uncredited)

Directed by
Matt Russell		(as Matthew Dean Russell)

Writing credits
David Cook		(screenplay) (as David L. Cook) &
Rob Levine		(screenplay) &
Matt Russell		(screenplay) (as Matthew Dean Russell) &
Sandra Thrift		(screenplay)
David Cook		(novel "Golf's Sacred Journey: Seven Days at the Links of Utopia") (as David L. Cook)

Produced by
Ele Bardha	....	associate producer
Jason Michael Berman	....	producer (as Jason Berman)
Rob Carliner	....	executive producer
Kwesi Collisson	....	co-producer
David Cook	....	executive producer
Ken Herfurth	....	executive producer
Lindsay Hovel	....	associate producer
W. Michael Jenson	....	associate producer
Susan Kirr	....	co-producer
Susan Kirr	....	line producer
Mark G. Mathis	....	producer
Phil Myers	....	executive producer
Mick Partridge	....	associate producer
Jess Stainbrook	....	executive producer

Original Music by
Klaus Badelt
Christopher Carmichael

Cinematography by
M. David Mullen		(director of photography)

Film Editing by
Robert Komatsu

Casting by
Lindsay Graham
Mary Vernieu

Production Design by
Maxwell Fasen
Clark Hunter

Art Direction by
Helen Harwell
Poldo Ramirez

Set Decoration by
Amy Bell

Costume Design by
Molly Maginnis
Amy Maner

Makeup Department
Jacenda Burkett	....	key makeup artist
Kim Collea	....	personal makeup artist
Ken Diaz	....	makeup department head
Sharon Ray Ely	....	hair stylist
Terri Ewton	....	department head hair
Leola Perez	....	key hair stylist

Production Management
Joe McDougall	....	production supervisor

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Meg Beatty	....	first assistant director: second unit
Mary Beth Chambers	....	second assistant director
Alisa Fredericks	....	first assistant director
Andrea Longan	....	second second assistant director
Don Michael Paul	....	second unit director
Mark Spencer	....	first assistant director: second unit

Art Department
Brad Blei	....	set dresser
Kevin Blosser	....	props
Chris Combs	....	assistant property master
Jason Hammond	....	property master

Sound Department
Bayard Carey	....	production sound mixer
Gary Coppola	....	supervising sound re-recording mixer
Tim Dallesandro	....	boom operator: second unit
Mark Ettel	....	sound re-recording mixer
Sandy Gendler	....	sound designer
Brad Harper	....	sound mixer
Yagmur Kaplan	....	sound re-recording mixer
Phil Kim	....	post-production sound assistant
Eric Maldin	....	foley mixer
Jeffrey A. Pitts	....	sound designer
Adam Risner	....	sound utility
Sasha Saenz-Basaldua	....	sound recordist
Christopher Sheldon	....	supervising sound editor
Gregg Teutonico	....	field sound recordist
Gregg Teutonico	....	foley editor

Special Effects by
Dennis Ray Mitchell	....	special effects assistant
Ken Speed	....	special effects coordinator

Visual Effects by
David Altenau	....	visual effects supervisor: FuseFX
Branden Bauer	....	roto/paint artist
Kyle Belko	....	digital artist
Adam Briggs	....	visual effects artist
Ryan Egan	....	compositor
Evan Ghigliotty	....	digital artist
Evan Ghigliotty	....	digital compositing supervisor
Nick Hamer	....	digital artist
Ian A. Harris	....	compositor: BakedFx
Tassos Kouvelis	....	animator
George Loucas	....	visual effects supervisor
Diane Macke	....	visual effects coordinator
Matthew Massarella	....	digital compositor (as Matt Massarella)
Josh Miyaji	....	visual effects artist
Jessie Mizrahi	....	visual effects coordinator
Sokratis Parsanos	....	cg supervisor
Aldo Ruggiero	....	digital compositor
Jason Shum	....	animator
D.J. Sing	....	visual effects editor: Baked FX
Robert Snyder	....	compositor
Pablo Wang	....	visual effects artist

Stunts
Ele Bardha	....	stunt coordinator
Thomas E. Bentley	....	assistant stunt coordinator
Joshua Ryan Edwards	....	stunt double: Robert Bear
Joshua Ryan Edwards	....	stunt player
Kevin P. Manning	....	stunt double

Camera and Electrical Department
Wes Ahl	....	key rigging grip
Carlos Benavides	....	best boy electrician
Justin DeGuire	....	second assistant camera
Raul A. Erivez	....	first assistant camera: second unit
Patrick Fortune	....	best boy grip: second unit
Geoffrey Frost	....	second assistant camera
Maximilian Gutierrez	....	cinematographer: second unit (as Max Gutierrez)
Brad Heiner	....	key grip
Jeff Holman	....	grip
Kevin Lippincott	....	prep electric: Shreveport
Marcos O. Lopez	....	first assistant camera
Scott Magruder	....	electrician
Clayton Null	....	dolly grip
Sam Pearcy	....	film loader
Jeff Peterson	....	grip
Chad Lear Plunkett	....	dolly grip: "b" camera
Ian Quigley	....	electrician
Van Redin	....	still photographer
Ashley Riggs	....	grip
John Sheeren	....	first assistant camera: "b" camera
Peter Simonite	....	director of photography: second unit
James Soward	....	best boy grip
Erik Untersee	....	grip
Aaron Welch	....	electrician

Animation Department
Jason Shum	....	animator

Casting Department
Sarah Dowling	....	extras casting
Ashley Hallford	....	extras casting assistant
Andrew Reyes	....	extras casting assistant

Editorial Department
Damian Drago	....	digital imaging
Victor Franco	....	digital imaging
Victor Franco	....	digital restoration
James Garrett	....	assistant editor
Scott Gregory	....	digital film colorist
Momo Hsiao	....	digital imaging
Alan Pao	....	digital intermediate producer
Sebastian Perez-Burchard	....	additional colorist
Heather Toll	....	post-production coordinator

Music Department
Christopher Carmichael	....	musician: bass
Christopher Carmichael	....	score co-producer
Tommy Coster	....	composer: additional music
Tommy Coster	....	music producer
Simone de Leuw	....	score production manager
Lindsay Fellows	....	executive music producer
April Kimble	....	music supervisor
Stephen Lukach	....	music intern
Daniel Rojas	....	music arranger
Daniel Rojas	....	musician: guitar
Daniel Rojas	....	score technical advisor
Steven A. Saltzman	....	music editor
Mark Anthony Yaeger	....	additional songs by

Transportation Department
William Davis	....	transportation coordinator
John Proctor	....	transportation captain
Ronnie Reeves	....	transportation captain
Tara Reimers	....	transportation
Steven Willhoite	....	production van driver
Daniel O. Wiseman	....	driver: honey wagon

Other crew
Dwight Adair	....	dialect coach
Debbie Bilski	....	key craft service
Nicole Bilski	....	craft service assistant
Randy Bilski	....	medic
Sherrie Bradshaw	....	key production accountant
Erin Calahan	....	assistant to director
Erin Calahan	....	assistant to producers
Caroline Connor	....	production coordinator
Malcolm Duncan	....	production assistant
Mollie A. Gallagher	....	production secretary
Nancy R. Giles	....	production assistant: second unit
Jeff Guerrero	....	travel coordinator
Melanie Kirk	....	assistant production coordinator
Paul Knaus	....	location manager
Adam Madrigal	....	craft service
K. Lynn Martin	....	script supervisor
Brian Murphy	....	production assistant
Earl Nottingham	....	stand-in: Robert Duvall
Don Michael Paul	....	creative golf consultant
Rex Peterson	....	horse trainer
Tom Prince	....	post production supervisor
Kyle Prohaska	....	marketing
Karen Ramirez	....	travel coordinator
Will Rimmer	....	production assistant
Vernon Smith	....	locations production assistant
Brian Sutherin	....	set production assistant
Jacob Uher	....	first assistant accountant
Jenni Wieland	....	payroll accountant
Jessica Yackey	....	accounting clerk

Production Companies

• Prospect Park
• Utopia Pictures

Distributors

• Visio Entertainment (2011) (USA) (theatrical)
• ARC Entertainment (II) (2011) (USA) (DVD)
• Eagle Films (2011) (Non-USA) (all media) (middle east)

Special Effects

• Baked FX (visual effects)
• Decapo Film Group (special effects)

Other Companies

• Chapman/Leonard Studio Equipment  camera cranes
• Chapman/Leonard Studio Equipment  camera dollies
• Chapman/Leonard Studio Equipment  hydrascope telescoping crane arm
• Chapman/Leonard Studio Equipment  stabilized remote camera systems
• Lotus Post  ADR recording
• Lotus Post  post-production sound services
• Lotus Post  sound re-recording
• Martinez Barbanell  legal counsel
• Stand Sound  sound post-production
• Tunnel Post  post-production facilities

Also Known As:

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Certification:

USA:G

Filming Locations:

Fredericksburg, Texas, USA

Company:

Prospect Park

Trivia:

"Seven Days in Utopia" is the third film credit which Robert Duvall and Lucas Black share. In addition to the 1996 film "Sling Blade" in which they shared no screen time, they appeared in the 2009 film "Get Low" which also starred Bill Murray and Sissy Spacek.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: The morning after a torrential rain near the end of the film, Luke is instructed to bury a box in a small hole dug into the earth. The dirt - whether recently dug or not - would have shown some moisture retained from the storm and would not have been the fine dusty powdered dirt in this scene following that size of a thunderstorm. The hole, too, would have shown some moisture absorbed into the earth.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Johnny Crawford:How can a game have such an effect on a man's soul? The way I see it, how can it not? You don't chose the game, it choses you. And when it does, life and golf become forever connected. That's how it was for a young man named Luke Chisholm.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno: Episode #18.110" (2010)

Soundtrack:

Eyes On You

a wonderful film

this film obviously was written by a screenplay writer who really knows the golf, one of the sports heavily commercialized by necessary must-have sponsorship. the screenplay writer had subtly purify the commercial odor and turned it into a philosophy of life.

what a great casting job! every role was nicely picked for the right actor to play it. r.d. simply did another great job in this movie. he delivered those great words so naturally like originating from his heart. the young actor who played that conflicting young golfer was pretty awesome too. that young actress was also such a nice cast, pure, slender, kind and gentle, a typical American country girl in our dream.

this is a great film, a film about 99.99% without any commercial purpose but was ruined in the last 0.01% when the movie ended with a stupid arrangement by asking viewers an inevitable question: 'did he make the putt?" and ask you to visit a website URL: www.didhemaketheputt.com. when you typed and clicked the enter, it brought you to a 100% commercial site, selling lot of bi-products of this movie. it not only ruined my good impression cast by this movie, it actually made me sneer uncontrollably. well, after all, golf movies are still carrying lot of commercial-wise purposes.