Home Before Dark
Rating = B+
I saw this as the opening
show of the Woods Hole Film Festival. This was the first movie
for writer, director and producer Maureen Foley, who has had a
hard time finding a distributor and had to release the movie
herself (with her co-producer husband) at a single theater in each
of a handful of cities and towns. The movie is such a perfectly
good movie and so deserving of widespread distribution (compared
to all the dreck that gets massive distribution), especially for a
first timer, that the audience was very much in the director's
corner. All in all, it was a heart warming affair.
Ms. Foley, raised and spent \$350,000 and had another \$400,000 in
deferred salaries to repay (basically everyone worked for 5 weeks
with no pay). When asked how she got into this, her answer was
classic: “folly.” She has finally found distribution. Look for
the movie on cable on Lifetime.
[1998-08-02]