A comedy about a small New Jersey town on the night of Orson Welles' legendary 1938 "War of the Worlds" radio broadcast, which led millions of listeners to believe the U.S. was being invaded by Martians.
Cassidy is a struggling actress, grinding out auditions, worrying that any chance at stardom may have already passed her by. Desperate to save money to move to Hollywood, she takes a job working as a runner for her mother's boyfriend.
Deep in the Northern California woods, in the heart of the notorious Emerald Triangle, lies a remote cabin. The residents struggle to fight off the repeated attacks and abductions by ... See full summary »
A U.S. Marshal seeking justice for his brother's murder defends a small town from a corrupt Mayor and his henchmen with intents to revive the civil war.
Director:
Richard Gabai
Stars:
Nathan Parsons,
Jamie-Lynn Sigler,
Stephen Lang
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A comedy about a small New Jersey town on the night of Orson Welles' legendary 1938 "War of the Worlds" radio broadcast, which led millions of listeners to believe the U.S. was being invaded by Martians.
In-joke: mayor Clark Hill (Tony Hale) recommends the book "Gone with the Wind" to his friend Lorraine Davison (Heather Burns). The male star of the film of "Gone with the Wind" was Clark Gable. See more »
Goofs
The dialogue includes several modern expressions that wouldn't have been used in 1938, including "time frame" and "inappropriate" to mean an unwanted sexual advance from a man to a woman. See more »
This movie suffers in the first place from a boring and disjointed plot. And that is a kiss of death for any film. It starts there. The basic plot situation makes one sit up - the doings of a number of people in an small town in the New York area who believed the by now legendary radio play that Orson Welles did with the H.G. Wells story War of the Worlds - a story about the Martians attacking earth. It was done in the form of news announcements and according to legend many people believed it was true and panicked. Brave New Jersey sets out to tell story of a number of them. And right there it all falls to pieces because the description of the plot is the most exciting part. For the rest it is mediocre acting, bad story line, boring characters... in fact mediocre soap opera. Don't bother with this movie. Rather stare at the wall.
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This movie suffers in the first place from a boring and disjointed plot. And that is a kiss of death for any film. It starts there. The basic plot situation makes one sit up - the doings of a number of people in an small town in the New York area who believed the by now legendary radio play that Orson Welles did with the H.G. Wells story War of the Worlds - a story about the Martians attacking earth. It was done in the form of news announcements and according to legend many people believed it was true and panicked. Brave New Jersey sets out to tell story of a number of them. And right there it all falls to pieces because the description of the plot is the most exciting part. For the rest it is mediocre acting, bad story line, boring characters... in fact mediocre soap opera. Don't bother with this movie. Rather stare at the wall.