A Bag of Hammers
Russian title: Сумка, полная молотков
Original title: A Bag of Hammers
Original title: A Bag of Hammers
Tragicomedy – USA
Production year: 2010
Movie length: 85 minutes
Production year: 2010
Movie length: 85 minutes
Director: Brian Crano
Writer: Brian Crano, Jake Sandvig
Cinematograph: Byron Shah, Quyen Tran
Writer: Brian Crano, Jake Sandvig
Cinematograph: Byron Shah, Quyen Tran
Movie description:
A comedy about two misfit best friends incapable of growing up, whose direction is tested by an abandoned child, worn beyond his years; together they invent the family they’ve always needed.
A kid in need of adult guidance gets taken under the wings of two guys who stubbornly refuse to mature in this independent comedy. Alan and Ben are two friends in their mid-twenties who’ve known each other since high school and still behave as if they’re stuck in adolescence. They make a living by pretending to offer valet parking at funerals, stealing the cars and selling them to a fence who runs a garage. While Alan’s sister Mel encourages the two to find a more responsible occupation, they don’t do much about it until Lynette moves into the neighborhood. Lynette is a single mother whose livelihood seems no more stable than Alan and Ben’s, and when she mysteriously disappears, it falls to them to look after her 12-year-old son Kelsey. While initially Alan and Ben seem more like destructive playmates than guardians and try to bring Kelsey into their car-theft scheme, in time it occurs to them to start acting a bit more like fit role models for their young companion.
Ben and Alan have been buddies for years, living in the same California home adjacent to unemployed single mother Lynette and Lynette’s 12-year-old son, Kelsey. Ben and Alan are scammers. They stand outside the local cemetery with a sign stating »free valet service«, but when the car keys are turned over, they flip the sign into the car, drive it to Marty, a fence who pays cash and who will »move« the car to another owner after making adjustments. Alan, who looks like a young Jim Carrey, is regularly counseled by his waitress sister Mel, who wants him to give up a life of crime and get married. When Lynette commits suicide, Alan and Ben informally adopt Kelsey. Kelsey is thrilled to have someone finally care for him, saving him from the clutches of the authorities and from his busy-body 6th-grade Social Studies teacher, Wyatt. The question is: will Kelsey, an adorable but needy kid, manage to redeem his temporary new parents, convincing them to give up their life of crime?
A kid in need of adult guidance gets taken under the wings of two guys who stubbornly refuse to mature in this independent comedy. Alan and Ben are two friends in their mid-twenties who’ve known each other since high school and still behave as if they’re stuck in adolescence. They make a living by pretending to offer valet parking at funerals, stealing the cars and selling them to a fence who runs a garage. While Alan’s sister Mel encourages the two to find a more responsible occupation, they don’t do much about it until Lynette moves into the neighborhood. Lynette is a single mother whose livelihood seems no more stable than Alan and Ben’s, and when she mysteriously disappears, it falls to them to look after her 12-year-old son Kelsey. While initially Alan and Ben seem more like destructive playmates than guardians and try to bring Kelsey into their car-theft scheme, in time it occurs to them to start acting a bit more like fit role models for their young companion.
Ben and Alan have been buddies for years, living in the same California home adjacent to unemployed single mother Lynette and Lynette’s 12-year-old son, Kelsey. Ben and Alan are scammers. They stand outside the local cemetery with a sign stating »free valet service«, but when the car keys are turned over, they flip the sign into the car, drive it to Marty, a fence who pays cash and who will »move« the car to another owner after making adjustments. Alan, who looks like a young Jim Carrey, is regularly counseled by his waitress sister Mel, who wants him to give up a life of crime and get married. When Lynette commits suicide, Alan and Ben informally adopt Kelsey. Kelsey is thrilled to have someone finally care for him, saving him from the clutches of the authorities and from his busy-body 6th-grade Social Studies teacher, Wyatt. The question is: will Kelsey, an adorable but needy kid, manage to redeem his temporary new parents, convincing them to give up their life of crime?
Boy Actors
Chandler Canterbury
(Kelsey, 12 years old)
(Kelsey, 12 years old)
Birthday: 15.12.1998
Age of the actor:
approximately 11 years old
Age of the actor:
approximately 11 years old
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Most Memorable Moment: Kelsey’s reaction when he is told that his mother is dead.
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