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Jimmy Zip
Threat advisory: High - High risk of entertaining activities
Movie propaganda
There's more than one way to start a fire.
In this urban coming-of-age story, Jimmy Zip (Brendan Fletcher) is an abused runaway who lands a job working for drug dealer Rick Conesco (Chris Mulkey).
Under peer pressure from the other street kids, Jimmy makes a big mistake. He tosses an explosive into a junkyard car not knowing that Horace Metcalf (Robert Gossett), a metal sculptor, is inside. When Horace recruits Jimmy as his apprentice, Jimmy channels his destructive energy into creative expression. But the business is funded by money Jimmy steals from Rick, who's out to get them.
The motley duo, caught between the worlds of crime and art, must find a way to sell their artwork before they are killed.
Also starring Ike Gingrich as Dick Portsmith, Adrienne Frantz as Sheila, Zia as Snake, John Truong as Zoe, John Epps as Mateus, Kim Dawson as Diedra, Cristos as Julio, John Snyder as Frank, James Russo as Otis Campbell, Karen Landry as Randi Sacks, Susannah Devereux as Sabrina, David Ripley as Warren Mavis and Nicholas Mele as Oliver Sandstrom. Written and directed by Robert McGinley.
Cinematic intelligence sources
- Awards and film festivals:
- Hollywood Film Festival 1999: Best feature film
- Wine Country Fim Festival 1999: Best feature film
- See also Music High
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Intelligence analyst
Secret Agent Acid Thunder
Theatrical report
The early life of a kid who's abused by his father, plays with fire and saves himself from the jaws of crime, despite being chased, strung up, shot at and beaten to a pulp. He promises to make a life for himself: he does, with the help of a oxy-acetylene welder, he proves to everyone that even if you end up at the bottom of the heap there are always ways to pick yourself up again.
Just like in real life.
Intelligence analyst
Special Agent Matti
Theatrical report
A film that's just right for Brendan Fletcher. He's got the look of Ryan Phillippe with none of the moisturised smoothness that plagues the latter. Brendan is rough, tough, hard and utterly desirable. He also has one of the best sneers that I've ever seen, and I am a gold medallist sneerer from way back.
Brendan Fletcher also gets the teenager down pat. His language, his hope, his broken heart, his adrenaline-fuelled anger truly rages across the screen. Pyromania is not a psychosis, it's an extension of what's inside him.
You should check out Dog run if you want to see some more kids on the street having "issues" with the world around them.
Media intelligence (DVD)
- *
Security censorship classification
MA 15+ (Medium level coarse language)
Surveillance time
115 minutes (1:55 hours)
Not for public release in Australia before date
VHS rental: 15 August 2001
DVD retail: Undated November 2001
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