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Blind Spot Reviews

2001
1 hr 31 mins
Drama
NR

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James Franco, hot off his performance as James Dean in a well-received TV biopic, and before his supporting turn in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man, starred in this low-budget indie as Danny, an aimless young prep school student. The story is told in flashback. Danny leaves school and searches for his lover, the mysterious and alluring Darcy (Morgan H. Margolis). After promising to take Danny away with him, Darcy vanished, leaving a lot of unhappy people looking for him. Danny picks up the trail at the home of April (Shawn Montgomery in her first feature role), Darcy's pretty blond ex-girlfriend. Danny arrives just in time to foil April's suicide attempt. She's distraught because Darcy has apparently found someone new and run off. Danny, realizing that he is the new person April has described, doesn't tell her about his relationship with Darcy. The pair are soon joined by Wayne (Mark Patrick Gleason), a shady character -- apparently some kind of low-level mob enforcer -- with his own interest in finding Darcy. As the three search and learn more about the ugly business in which Darcy was involved, they form an unlikely bond. But as sinister forces converge on them, their newfound connection will be tested by life-threatening circumstances. Stefan Woloszczuk's debut feature (as writer, director, and producer) was shown in competition at the 2002 Tribeca Film Festival.

A crime novelist becomes embroiled in a real-life murder – one in which he's the prime suspect – in this nourish spin on "locker room" mystery cliches. Jeffrey Andrews (Chester Morris, on hiatus from the BOSTON BLACKIE series) is at a career impasse: His contract with long-time publisher Henry Small (William Forrest) is so one-sided that he's perpetually broke. Determined to get himself a better deal, he fortifies himself several stiff drinks and pushes his way into Small's office. Small throws Andrews out before he can pitch his newest idea, a locked-room mystery he's sure will be a bestseller, so he repairs to the downstairs bar and finds a rapt audience in the bartender, Lloyd Harrison (Steven Geray) – one of Small's successful authors -- and Small's sexy secretary, Evelyn Green (Constance Dowling). Unfortunately, Small is found murdered the next day in the exact way Andrews described, and Andrews can't remember anything about the previous eveningthe police arrest him. Can Harrison and Green uncover evidence to exonerate him? One of novelist and screenwriter Martin M. Goldsmith's first assignments after DETOUR (1945), this modest thriller is derivative but clever, and first-time director Robert Gordon – and actor with screen credits going back to the silent era – keeps the action moving at a brisk pace.