Knock 'Em Dead, Kid

Knock 'Em Dead, Kid (2009)

Sometimes life can be a real riot.

Bret, 19, yearns to leave his Connecticut hometown and head off to college. He figures summer will be fun with his buddies but as the days progress, the situations he finds himself in spiral out of control. He has run-ins with the police, problems with his girlfriend involving another girl, and a revenge attack he never should have involved himself in.

Date of release
2009-02-03
TMDB
5.0 / 10 (2)
Runtime
1h 11m
Genres
Drama
Director
Christopher L. Golon

Casting

Interesting facts

Knock 'Em Dead, Kid is a 2009 American independent film written, co-produced, and directed by Christopher L. Golon. The film stars Dirk Julian, Michael Resendez, Chad Post, Torey Marks, Angela Nordeng, Andrew Chase, Cody Cowell, Les Mahoney, Judy Waller, and Al 'Mr. Outrageous' Burke. Knock 'Em Dead, Kid tells the story of a young man, on his way to college, who makes horrible choices during one fateful summer.

Production

Knock 'Em Dead, Kid was shot in Los Angeles, California during the summer of 2008. Golon drew inspiration for the screenplay from his own experiences. He wrote the initial script in 1995 and in some of the subsequent drafts, "the script, which had been 212 pages...began to scale down. And down it went: 165, 140, and finally about 80." The script had numerous titles, like 'Once Upon a Summer in Connecticut' and 'In the End.'

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