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The Wednesday Night Save-the-World Society
85 minutes | 17 or older | 2005 | 
United States of America
Eight misfits get together to save the world and end up saving each other.
SynopsisThe world's going straight down the drain. What's a successful, 30-year-old woman to do? If you're Dee Barnes, you organize a discussion group in hopes somebody has an answer...or at least is man enough to marry you and father your children.
Director's StatementWow, what a journey! It was nearly a decade ago, I think, when Fred came up with this idea to make a movie about these "salons" which people were forming to discuss the issues of the day. We wrote a number of drafts of the script, and even budgeted the film. It came in at $800,000, even shooting 16mm! Failing to find anybody who'd risk that kind of money on us, we set about reducing the costs by limiting the action to a few locations. We soon realized the piece would make a pretty good play, adapted it, and then the Chance Theater in Anaheim agreed to perform it. We sat in on every rehearsal and every performance, a total of nine weeks in all. What we learned from that experience helped shape the piece in major ways, so when the technology finally caught up with us--inexpensive DV cameras, non-linear editing on home
computers--we were ready. But judge for yourself.
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Directed by
Dave Eisenstark/Fred Burke -
Written by
Dave Eisenstark/Fred Burke -
Produced by
Mary Margaret Robinson/David Nagy
Written by: Dave Eisenstark/Fred Burke
Produced by: Mary Margaret Robinson/David Nagy
Cast
Mr. Hu'ong: Ruth de SosaM.O.: Dwight Hicks
Troy Spalding: David Grammer
Marcy: Roger Ranney
Donald: Mary Margaret Robinson
Detective Lawson: Peter Szumlas
deputy: Madison Wells
Kirk Taylor: Hollace Starr
Crew
Mixer of Phone Conversations: Sadye HensonMixer of Phone Conversations: David Victor Rusch
Mixer of Phone Conversations: Alex Hajdu
Mixer of Phone Conversations: Gordon Capps
Mixer of Phone Conversations: Rebecca Anderson
Mixer of Phone Conversations: Steve Duval
Mixer of Phone Conversations: Geno Havens
Mixer of Phone Conversations: Tim Riley
Mixer of Phone Conversations: Alan Armes
Mixer of Phone Conversations: Stephen Blanor
Mixer of Phone Conversations: Mary Jo Devenney
Mixer of Phone Conversations: Jan Arcaro
Mixer of Phone Conversations: Jen Swanston/Jack Tucker
"...a beautiful, well-crafted film." --Ron Leming, "Hacker's Source."
THE WEDNESDAY NIGHT SAVE-THE-WORLD SOCIETY is about the people in a "salon," a discussion group.
At first we envisioned each of the characters carrying equal weight, and each character having a particular story, but eventually we gave the film a hero--the most mature of the characters, but also the most detached. By doing so, the piece became strongly about alienation, loneliness and isolation.
The tension between what the characters wanted for themselves and their ideals for the planet became the central conflict in the movie, and the source for most of the comedy. This freed us from being too topical, something we wanted to avoid since we had no idea how far into the future the film would be seen.
By the time we finished the script, technology had caught up with what we had in mind. A number of films proved you could make a world-class film with consumer-grade materials. And by then we'd been personally involved with one miniDV feature, a comedy, MONKEY LOVE.
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Director
Dave Eisenstark/Fred Burke
