The Two McKays
It’s unusual to see two trailers for the same film that (a) use different titles and (b) present the film in a somewhat different light. The movie is Jake Goldberger ‘s Don McKay (Image Entertainment, 4.2), a spider’s web drama that plays like a cut-rate Coen brothers film. It’s fairly awful. Drink hemlock, stab yourself with a pen knife, jump off a 30-story building, etc.
McKay played at last year’s Tribeca Film Festival. And yet last fall a trailer used the title Moment of Truth, and a YouTube blurb called it a “darkly comedic thriller noir.” About five weeks ago a new trailer for Truth, re-titled as Don McKay, sold it as a straight Fatal Attraction-type melodrama.
Directed and written by Goldberger, Don McKay stars Thomas Haden Church (who also exec produced) and Elisabeth Shue with Melissa Leo, James Rebhorn, M. Emmet Walsh, Pruitt Taylor Vince and Keith David in supporting roles.
I was having trouble believing what I was watching. I was convulsing in my seat. It felt like a bad acid trip. I was asking myself, “Is this really happening? Somebody made this movie and I’m watching it?”
I’m stunned and amazed by the disparity between Church in Sideways and Leo in Frozen River and Shue in Leaving Las Vegas and coming away from these films persuaded that these gifted people are fairly golden and sage observers of the human condition, etc. And then you see them in a film like Don McKay and you wonder, “Are these guys trying to commit career suicide ? What happened to their brains? Couldn’t they have told the director ‘hey, this makes no sense’ and somehow improved their performance?’”
I’ll run my full pan (which I wrote this morning) closer to opening day. There’s no hurry.
“What do you need from me? Help me with the dead body.”
Classic.
Scrap that last post this one’s even better:
“I think you’ve spilled enough seed in the house already”.
Watching those two trailers back to back is extremely disorienting. I hope they both end up as previews on the same DVD soon.
I see that “Hot Tub Time Machine” is no “The Hangover” as I pointed out in the comments of both your posts speculating on the potential.
What happened to the really fake-looking birds?
I think I just had some kind of epiphany regarding women in slips and bad, mannered neo-noir films.
It’s definitely an incredibly odd movie, and a bit of a disorienting experience to sit and watch, but I liked it. Has real cult audience potential.
A little bit off topic but where has the great James Rebhorn been the last half dozen years? The guy is one of the best all around character actors working today.
Mike, Rebhorn’s been on a fair amount of TV, mostly not very good stuff like THE BOOK OF DANIEL and WHITE COLLAR. He killed on 30 ROCK recently.
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Don Mckay is nice, kinda liked it anyway.
Sean