A Better Place

A Better Place (1997)

A high school outcast new to town becomes friends with a violent loner still haunted by the death of his parents.

Date of release
1997-09-01
TMDB
6.7 / 10 (15)
Runtime
1h 27m
Genres
Drama
Director
Vincent Pereira

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: New Jersey

A Better Place is a 1997 drama film written and directed by Vincent Pereira. It stars Robert DiPatri and Eion Bailey. It was produced in association with View Askew, Kevin Smith's production company, and released to DVD by Synapse Films. It was nominated for the Golden Starfish Award for Best American Independent Film at the 1997 Hamptons International Film Festival. In 2016, the film screened out of jury competition, in the director-curated block, but was chosen as the Audience Favorite Feature Film of the first annual Oil Valley Film Festival.

Production

Director Vincent Pereira was a childhood friend of co-producer Kevin Smith from Leonardo, New Jersey. They had worked together at the convenience store/video store that inspired Smith's hit film Clerks. Another friend of Pereira, Brian Lynch, was a production assistant for A Better Place and has a small role in the film. Lynch went on to become a screenwriter for major animation films.

Smith brought the film to the Independent Feature Film Market in 1997.

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