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Four Boxes
In this snarky social thriller, three cynical 20-something friends—Trevor, Amber, and Rob—run Go Time Liquidators, a web-based auction business. Trevor is a brooding, cynical, and superstitious dude who also works as a privacy-fence salesman. Amber is a talent-challenged singer-songwriter who used to date Trevor and is now with the Red Hot Chili Peppers–loving, pizza-eating Rob. When the trio moves into a dead man’s destroyed suburban house to sell his stuff on eBay, they discover a bookmarked surveillance-cam website called fourboxes.tv. On the site, they discover a creepy on-camera presence called “Havoc” and start freaking out about its apparent plot to kill. In their debut feature, director Wyatt McDill and his wife, producer Megan Huber, take their original conceit of “Rear Window on the internet” and turn it into a wry commentary on the Twitter generation. With its muted colors, claustrophobic setting, and MIDI-style electronic music, the film conveys themes of paranoia and isolation that are the products of an increasingly internet-based lifestyle. Four Boxes is a thriller with plenty of unexpected twists and delightful creepiness, but it’s also a smart, sharp satire of web-style entertainment for those who consider text messaging a first language. Director Wyatt McDill, producer Megan Huber, and actor Justin Kirk expected to attend both screenings
Sponsor:
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Cast & Crew
Director: Wyatt McDill
Producer: Megan Huber
Editor: Brett Astor
Screenwriter: Wyatt McDill
Cinematographer: Brian Lundy
Music: Ken Brahmstedt
Principal Cast: Justin Kirk, Terryn Westbrook, Sam Rosen, Bain Boehlke, David Tufford
Filmography: Debut Feature Film
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Sarcastic suburban thriller, Jun 05, 2009
By C. Canzoneri
“FOUR BOXES' surprises and delightful twists make this suburban thriller not what you might expect it to be.. Its overlying theme is the effect that our increasingly internet-based lifestyle has on our behavior -- somewhat like Ondi Timoner's WE LIVE IN PUBLIC that screened earlier in the festival,”
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A cinematic jigsaw puzzlw, Jun 06, 2009
By Dan Rosson
“This film tries to accomplish a lot in its hour and a half running time. It is successful on most counts. It is clever look how technology and specifically the internet have infiltrated our lives. It kept me guessing throught. My only disappointment was the ending and some of the dialogue did not”
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