Hi Everybody, Sorry we haven’t been on here as much as we should but thanks so much for coming. I guess I have been overwhelmed with the opening of “An Unreasonable Man”. We open in DC on Friday February 23 as well as Honolulu, Austin, Dallas and Wilmington, DE. I will be at the DC opening with Ralph so come on by and tell your friends!
It’s been interesting doing the Q and A. I covered the NYC shows last week-end and Steve and Lawrence O’Donnell covered LA and Pasadena, CA. I had great crowds. It’s interesting because when Ralph is there he gets all the questions and when he’s not, most of what I do is tell the audiences what he has said to others. Although I have say the occasional question comes in about how this movie came about in the first place.
Oddly enough, it was an idea for a sit-com. Steve had a development deal after his 9 years at “Everybody Loves Raymond” and I was so on board to help him with that. It was going to be a sit-com about a public interest office in DC with a consumer advocate. Are you laughing already? Anyway, to make a long story kinda short, it went nowhere but as I introduced him to all my friends and former colleagues, it became very obvious that we had to tell this story. So we started interviewing people, set up a very humble, cockroach-ridden, edit room in Echo Park, CA. We were a team of about 5. Kevin our producer and Ellie our do-everything-aspiring-actress gal worked on card tables in the kitchen. Our editor, Alexis was in the big room with the Final Cut Pro system that none of us were exactly sure how to use. But before we knew it we were in Sundance on a 3 and half hour cut that we got down to 2 hours 35 minutes for the festival. We actually called in another editor, Beth who helped Alexis and all of us to make this thing look like a real movie. After Sundance we shortened it to the length it is now, 2 hours and 2 minutes. But just so you know, without credits — it would be 1 hour, 59 minutes. Darn those credits.
So here we are going out to 40 cities. Please tell your friends.
I’m going to start talking on here every few days to catch you up on what’s going on. And I’m also going to work on Steve to come by and give his 2 cents!!!
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The one thing that I learn again and again with showing this movie is that there is no middle ground with Ralph. Either people love him or hate him…. everyone has a definite opinion, so thanks for saying yours on here.
Henriette
