Eyeball Eddie

Eyeball Eddie (2001)

"Eyeball Eddie" is the story of the stormy relationship between a prosthetic glass eye and the insecure boy stuck behind it. What follows is a dark comedy about the price of popularity. In the world of high-school wrestling, there is only the strong and the weak.

Date de sortie
2001-04-06
TMDB
7.3 / 10 (3)
Durée
29 min
Réalisateur
Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum

Distribution

Anecdotes

Eyeball Eddie is a 2001 American short dark comedy film directed by Elizabeth Allen and written by Nick Pustay. The film stars Martin Starr, Melissa Hunter, Michael Rosenbaum, and M. Emmet Walsh. It follows a high school wrestler who gains an advantage in matches by removing his prosthetic eye, shocking his opponents. The film screened at multiple festivals including the Slamdance Film Festival and won audience awards at the Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival and Stony Brook Film Festival.

Production

The film was produced at the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television. It was directed by Elizabeth Allen, a graduate of Cornell University who received the Jack Nicholson Directing Scholarship at USC. The screenplay was written by Nick Pustay. The film was produced by Alexis Kasperavicius and Rosenbaum, with Martin Cohen, then head of post-production at DreamWorks Pictures, and Erica Frauman serving as executive producers.

The cinematography was by Matthew Jensen who later worked on major film and television productions, and was shot on 35 mm film in the 1:85:1 aspect ratio using Panavision cameras and lenses. The film was edited by Brett Hedlund and Tripp Reed. Special effects for the prosthetic eye were created by Bill Gilman, a fellow Cornell alumnus.

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