In Search of a Midnight Kiss Page #4

Synopsis: On New Year's Eve, Wilson, a twenty-nine-year old guy has just had the worst year of his life. He emigrated to Los Angeles, has no date, no concrete plans and every intention of locking the doors and forgetting the last year ever happened. That is until his best friend, Jacob, browbeats him into posting a personal ad on Craig's List. When Vivian, a strong-willed woman hell bent on being with the right guy at the stroke of midnight responds, a chaotic, sometimes hilarious, sometimes touching journey through the black and white streets of L.A. begins. In the waning hours of the year, emotional vulnerability and bitterly honest humor seem to be waiting around every corner.
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Director(s): Alex Holdridge
Production: IFC First Take
  4 wins.
 
IMDB:
7.3
Metacritic:
64
Rotten Tomatoes:
86%
Year:
2007
90 min
Website
201 Views


- Who was that?

It was, uh... just a friend,

- A girl?

- Yeah, actually, it was,

What's her name?

What does she do?

It's not at that point,

Just let it be, OK?

Honey, you're hedging on 30,

I think you'd be in a serious relationship,

Mom, Mom! Jeez, come on,

OK, Just drop it, please,

Oh, OK,

You sound good, honey,

You really do,

I mean, I thought maybe when Karen

dumped you, I'd be worried about you,

- But you sound good.

- Yeah, I've never been happier,

That's my go-get-'em kid,

You go get 'em, honey,

Happy New Year, baby.

- (Min) I think you look great,

- Really?

You're gonna need a belt, though,

Jacob, can you grab some belts?

Got the belts, La-la-la, Which one?

- This one,

- OK,

- I got it, Let me do this,

- You're looking good,

You look great, I like the whole Freddy

Krueger look, I love that sweater on you,

- I feel like a rodeo clown,

- You're not a rodeo clown,

Bui, get in here, Help me with this guy,

What do you think of his outfit?

Oh, man, Yeah, you look New York,

I don't like wearing clothes that I look

back in ten years and I feel humiliated,

That's not this outfit,

That's nice,

That's like a classic,

That's timeless,

- (Jacob) Clothes make the man,

- I feel good,

- I mean, the belt's not working,

- Do you have another belt?

I used to wear this belt, You just loop

through, come down, buckle my shoe,

- Right there, Yeah!

- (Jacob) Looks good, You're feeling it,

- So this is the outfit, then?

- Yeah,

- All right, good, You're dressed,

- I would totally f*** you,

I would f*** you, too,

Why don't we do an orgy?

She'd f*** you, I'd f*** you,

Would you f*** him?

OK, yeah, Yeah, I mean...

See? You're looking good,

This is the heartbreaker outfit,

- You'll break hearts in this,

- I'm feeling Mr, Heartbreaker,

Now we're talking, There you go,

All right? High-five?

- High-five,

- High-five? Everybody, high-five,

I'm feeling confident, Looking good,

Sorry about that, man, I just don't feel

confident wearing those clothes,

It's all right, You gotta wear what you like,

That's how it works,

Thanks for letting me borrow your car,

I'll fill it up with gas,

It's not a problem,

Wanna borrow some money?

You can buy her flowers,

I don't need to borrow your money,

We bathed together when we were ten,

You can borrow anything,

Whoa, We weren't ten,

We were, like, two,

Hey, don't eat her out,

- What? What are you talking about?

- We're not in Texas anymore,

This is LA, Girls are dirty here,

Just don't eat her out, and wear a condom,

- I'm not even thinking about that right now,

- Look...

I don't wanna get some disease because

I used the same bar of soap as you,

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Alex Holdridge

Alex Holdridge is an American writer/director currently based in Berlin, Germany.CURRENT PRODUCTIONS (2015) Meet Me in Montenegro, is a cynical romance in which he co-wrote and co-directed with the Norwegian filmmaker Linnea Saasen. They filmed in several countries (U.S., Germany, Montenegro, England, Macedonia) in stages between 2011 and 2015. It made its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2014 where it was acquired by The Orchard for release in north America in summer of 2015. The film was fully completed in March 2015 and has been making its European festival premiers in 2015 at Edinburgh International Film Festival, Munich Film Festival, Krakow's Off Camera International Festival of Independent Cinema, Tromsø International Film Festival, Dublin International Film Festival,. The U.S. and Canadian release in cinemas and VOD for the summer. The film Alex Holdridge and Linnea Saasen as well as Rupert Friend, Jennifer Ulrich. The film is fun globe-trotting romance inspired by Holdridge and Saasens real life exeprience. Frank and Cindy is a screenplay he co-wrote with GJ Echternkamp that is also in post-production and will premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival in 2015. It was directed by Echternkamp and stars Rene Russo, Oliver Platt, Johnny Simmons, Jane Levy and Marc Maron. It is a fictional adaptation of the documentary 'Frank and Cindy, about the 80s pop band OXO and its base player, Frank and his life partner Cindys life, 30 years later. HISTORY Late 90's Austin Holdridge began making movies in the early 2000s in Austin, Texas. The film culture and life in Austin shaped his moviemaking. His first full length film, Wrong Numbers, was a low-budget comedy about two 18-year-old guys who set out to forget their girlfriend troubles and buy a six pack on the last night of school. The movie stars Scoot McNairy, Matt Bearden, Matt Pulliam, Kirsten Cunnington and David Pratt. It was co-written by Sam Merrick. It's a comedy of misadventures about these two best friends on a night from hell as they are stuck roaming Austin Texas with a car full of people they don't want to be with. The movie won the Audience Award at the Austin Film Festival in 2001 and Alex was hired to do a studio remake of the film. This remake never came to fruition, however. In 2003 Alex wrote and directed, Sexless. It won both the jury and audience awards at the 2003 South by Southwest Film Festival. It is a sex comedy about twenty-something couples' last month in Austin, Texas. Afeterwards, Alex moved to Los Angeles to pursue the studio remake of Wrong Numbers that never came to fruition. In 2008 Holdridge wrote, directed and produced In Search of a Midnight Kiss, a romantic comedy which was listed by the National Board of Review as one of the Top 10 Independent Films of 2008. Holdridge won the 2008 Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award for work on the film. The film starred Scoot McNairy and Sara Simmonds, and was the third collaboration with McNairy and the second with Simmonds. The film was shot by Austin cinematographer, Robert Murphy, who also worked on Wrong Numbers and went on to shoot Alexs next film, Meet Me in Montenegro. more…

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