It's a smooth, slick moment. Best of all, it gets across the heart of the scene in just a flash of a second. Which is what he wanted, after all. When Lesperance decided to make a full-length feature film for his student graduation project at Brooks Institute of Photography, he didn't want to craft some obscure, artsy bit of possible pretentiousness that had as much chance of commercial success as Denise Richards getting an Oscar. Something that not only could be a calling card in Hollywood, but also perhaps even make some money.
People seem to eat 'em up like overpriced Milk Duds at the neighborhood multiplex.
Walk into your average video store and you'll find thrillers crowding the shelves just waiting to taunt you with grizzled police detectives and homicidal maniacs. The film was picked up by Hollywood Video, which has a series devoted to first-time American directors. Not bad for a student film project. Lesperance shot the film in the summer of 1996, and it has taken this long to find an audience. It's always fun to write about someone's first big break in Hollywood, especially when it's a nice local-boy story.