Okay boys and girls ... Hal Haberman and Jeremy Passmore's film Special is one we've shown a lot of love to in these pages over the past couple years and for very good reason: it deserves a lot of love. The quirky indie comedy starring Michael Rapaport as a clinically depressed man convinced that he is developing super powers has been stuck in distribution limbo for a couple years now but thanks to the good folk at Magnet and their Six Shooter Films series you can finally see what we've been talking about when it begins its limited theatrical run (also available on VOD) today. And to celebrate we've got a little something to give away to you lot: an original Special one sheet signed by Haberman, Passmore and Rapaport!
Want it? Simple enough all you have to do is {encode="contests@twitchfilm.net" title="send me an email"} answering this question: Though Rapaport dominantly plays support roles this is not his first unusual lead. Name the film in which he plays a wrestling chiropractor taking on a major pharmaceutical company. This is a quick one, we're going to draw our winner Monday, so get your answers in quick.
Check the Special trailers out below the break and get out and support the film!
SPECIAL is the second film in Magnet’s “Six Shooter Film Series,” a series of six films highlighting the vanguard of genre cinema from around the globe. Opening the series is Swedish film LET THE RIGHT ONE IN with four other films to follow over the coming months: Nacho Vigalondo’s TIMECRIMES (Spain), Ollie Blackburn’s DONKEY PUNCH (UK), BIG MAN JAPAN (Japan), and EDEN LOG (France).
Is this movie ever going to come out?!
I am excited about this movie because I think M.R. is an under-rated and sometimes sadly ignored talent. I really warmed to his sitcom War at Home (and I hate sitcoms) but I think he has a solid body of work that hints at greatness still to come.
I still remember that Premiere magazine article about up and coming actors he was featured in when he was nobody and then True Romance came out where he basically played himself from that article and he has never gone away since. I'd cast him in almost anything and would love to see more serious roles from him.
Er, Deadpool ... from this very post: "it begins its limited theatrical run (also available on VOD) today." That's the whole point of the contest.