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Live One
USA 2024
produced by Dallas Ryan for Dark Launch Productions
directed by Dallas Ryan
starring Dallas Ryan, Ryan Vania, Chloe Gay Brewer, Daisy Dolittle Roberts, Steve Bilecz, Stephen Thomas Abbott, Sean Vickrey, Bonnie Brown, Rodney Brown, Michelle Liner, Christian Schmitt (= Vanor Schmitt), Anna Beatriz Tagliaferri Schmitt
written by Dallas Ryan, music by Stephen Thomas Abbott, Kevin MacLeod, Filthy McGreedy, Dallas Ryan
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Coming home one day, David (Dallas Ryan) has to notice his daughter
Sophia (Anna Beatriz Tagliaferri Schmitt) is gone, but soon enough he
receives a call that she has been kidnapped, but if he fulfills a few
tasks the abductor has thought up for him he'll see his daughter again
unharmed. The tasks though come across more like evil pranks, he has to
welcome his best friend (Christian Schmitt) in drag and confess his
undying love, he has to welcome his best customer (Ryan Vania) in a Nazi
uniform and confess his adoration for Adolf Hitler, and he has to give an
enormous tip to a delivery buy, then talk rubbish to him. So yeah, pranks,
but life-threatening ones, as they ruin a friendship and his business, and
he could have done with that tip for the delivery guy himself. Thing is,
these three pranks were only the beginning, and from now on the tasks more
and more probe David's mind, and by the by he sees his own life in a new
light - and he doesn't necessarily like what he sees ... Now
for the most part (though by no means exclusively) this movie is basically
a guy talking into his phone - which might sound uninteresting on paper,
but it's always what one makes out of it - and writer/director/star Dallas
Ryan has made quite a bit out of it, it's pretty much a chamber thriller
that unfolds to epic proportions, so much so that it really shatters the
whole world view of the protagonist. And clever writing keeps the whole
thing relatable, while Dallas Ryan delivers a very emotional performance
to keep things relatable and help make this a really cool watch.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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