Completed - ENGLISH - Drama, Art - Culture - 98 minutes
A resourceful boy creatively uses poetry to survive when his mother, a disturbed avant garde painter, locks him in a puppet box and builds an art installation around his imprisonment
Year of production : 2016 Director(s) : Hunter LEE HUGHES Writer(s) : Hunter LEE HUGHES Cast : Patricia VELASQUEZ, Alexander DREYMON, Lydia HEARST, Rex LEE Producer(s) : Patrick HOLZEN, Hunter LEE HUGHES, Jason FRACARO, Debbie VANDERMEULEN
“Guys Reading Poems” follows an avant-garde painter (Patricia Velasquez, “The Mummy,”) whose sanity dissipates when she’s abandoned by her handsome lothario husband (Alexander Dreymon, “The Last Kingdom”) for his stunningly beautiful mistress (Lydia Hearst, “South of Hell”). In a feature debut performance, Luke Judy plays the resourceful child who creatively uses poetry to survive when his disturbed mother locks him in a puppet box, then transforms the child’s makeshift prison into an art installation.The supporting cast includes Rex Lee (“Entourage” and “Young and Hungry”), Christos Vasilopoulos (“Banshee”), Blake Sheldon and Jerod Meagher. The film features 32 poems as a framing device for this narrative about this artistic but damaged family, including poetry from West Hollywood poet laureate Steven Reigns, as well as classic pieces from LGBT poets Walt Whitman, Edna St. Vincent Millay and Thomas Gray, among others.
Country(ies) : USA
Woods Hole 2016 (Audience Award for Best Film)Palm Beach International Film Festival 2016 (Official)Blow Up Chicago Arthouse International Film Festival 2016 (Official)Breckenridge International FIlm Festival 2016 (Official )South Texas Underground Film Festival 2016 (Official)Dances with Films, Hollywood 2016 (Official Selection)