Love from Ground Zero (1998)

Love From Ground Zero follows three strangers across the back roads of America with the ashes of a mutual friend. Using a series of old postcards as a map, the threesome drive from New York to Montana retracing their friend’s journey “out west” years before. As they try to make sense of the untimely death, they are forced to face the realities in their own lives that have brought them down this unpredictable road.

Data de estreia
1998-09-30
TMDB
8.0 / 10 (1)
Duração
1 h 42 min
Géneros
Drama
Realizador
Stephen Grynberg

Elenco

Curiosidades

Love from Ground Zero is a 1998 American dramatic road movie directed, written and produced by Stephen Grynberg. It stars Simon Baker, Jacqueline McKenzie, and Pruitt Taylor Vince as it follows three strangers across the back roads of America with the ashes of a mutual friend. Using a series of old postcards as a map, the threesome drive from New York to Montana retracing their friend’s journey “out west” years before. As they try to make sense of the untimely death, they are forced to face the realities in their own lives that have brought them down this unpredictable road.

Production

Stephen Grynberg is a writer and independent filmmaker based in Santa Monica (California). Love from Ground Zero marked his debut as a feature film director in 1998. Since then, Grynberg has created a number of narrative and documentary films, among them the award-winning documentary A Life Ascending and, as part of large scale art project Envisioning the Future by Judy Chicago, the documentary film and video installation Past Forward (2005).

Patricia Kruijer and Chris Beckman were also Co-Producers, Neal Allen acted as Line Producer/Unit Production Manager. The film was shot in 35mm color by DP Mauro Fiore. Sandra Grass was hired as production designer for this project, Emily Schweber did the casting. Additional Editing is by Dave Baron. Michael Torres and Tiffaney Rotert did hair and make-up, Katie Vollmer was wardrobe assistant.

The film was shot on the move across the Midwestern states of Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Colorado. Rob Christoffersen, Tammy R. Richards (Colorado) and Dave Peck (Chico, second unit) accounted for the location management.

The original acoustic score was written by Grammy Award winner John McEuen (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band), production sound was mixed by Jeff Heintzleman. Still photographies were provided by Steve Claasen and Bill Walter. Dialogue coach James Devney and choreographer Stuart Mart were present on the set as well. The music was edited by Steven A. Saltzman, while Dominic Camardella engineered and mixed the score.

Along with McEuen's original score, the following songs were used in the film:

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