Bindlestiffs (2012)

Three high school virgins, suspended from school on a bogus graffiti charge, flee to the inner city in an attempt to live out the plot of The Catcher in the Rye - a book they neither have ... See full summary »

Director:

Andrew Edison

Writers:

Andrew Edison (story), Andrew Edison,

Stars:

John Karna, Luke Loftin, Andrew Edison

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Cast

Credited cast:
John Karna	...	John Woo
Luke Loftin	...	Luke Locktin
Andrew Edison	...	Andrew Edwards
Will Fordyce	...	Charlie Sanderson
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Morgan Alexander	...	Todd Perkles
Kurt Bauer	...	Principal Kerosene
Jordan R. Coleman	...	Stevon
Matt Cragg	...	News Announcer
Griffin Davis	...	Griff Mavis
Renee Edd	...	Sheila Merrifield
Andy Jo	...	News Interviewee
Barbara Lasater	...	Ms. Niffle
Dorcas Leung	...	Mindy Woo
Adelaide Lummis	...	Caramel
Sharad Kant Patel	...	Mike Cook

Storyline

Three high school virgins, suspended from school on a bogus graffiti charge, flee to the inner city in an attempt to live out the plot of The Catcher in the Rye - a book they neither have read nor understand. BINDLESTIFFS documents their struggles along the way as they surrender their virginities to vagrants, prostitutes, and crack fiends. Hot on their tail is Charlie, the deranged school security guard. Under the impression that the boys are planning a school shooting, he takes the law into his own hands to stop them and save America.

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Plot Keywords:

school | prostitute | virgin | catcher in the rye | high school | 

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Genres:

Comedy

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for pervasive crude and sexual content, language, some drug use and brief violence - all involving teens

Details

Official Sites:

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Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

January 2012 (USA)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Green Stoplight

Technical Specs

Runtime:

80 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

The movie was shot over 2 1/2 years, as it was edited, and then re-written. Andrew Edison and Luke Loftin ended up dropping out of college to focus on making the movie. After the numerous shoots, the filmmakers ended up with 200 hours of HD footage, totaling 7 TB (~7000 GB).

User Reviews

Crude but not all that funny

I can kinda guess why Kevin Smith would highly recommend this movie from his company Smodcast Pictures. But this is just a immature movie with 3 virgin kids that act brash and immature without being all that funny. Kevin Smith calls this movie a comedic genius but it's far from it. Some people might compare this movie to "Superbad" but it reminded me more of the movie "The Virginity Hit" which is another crappy movie that is just crude. Being crude is fine if it's funny in movies in my book but that doesn't apply to this movie. I am impressed when a movie tends to entertain with just literally a shoe string budget but this didn't impress me at all. I guess I didn't get angry at how bad this movie is, but was pretty much bored watching this movie. It's just a crude movie that tries really really hard to be funny with pretty bad actors. In fact I highly doubt these guys will make it to the big screen as one of the main character in other project they might end up in. And that is if they end up in another project and if so it's probably going to be another very very low budget indie movie.

3.6/10