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You can't escape the ape!
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(65 min., 2002) Romance, punk rock, anarchy, random destruction, aliens, a trip to hell and a guy in a gorilla suit - This comedy had it all. It was an okay movie for its time - nothing amazing but watchable enough - but the story behind it might be more interesting than the movie itself - the entire crew became incredibly sick and injured and pushed through the pain to film this thing in one week.
In March 2002, the filmmakers behind three different amateur movie comedy teams came together in Chicago, under one roof, for one shoot. Mike Stoklasa and Rich Evans from Chicago's GMP Pictures, Jay Bauman and Lisa Renley from  Milwaukee's Blanc Screen Cinema, and our own Garrett Gilchrist from Orange Cow Productions. (Our own David Ashe also contributed some rewriting work on the script from the safety of Florida.) For the first time, they would all be acting together. Director Mike Stoklasa wrote the 60-page script in five hours. It would be shot in 8 days. The shoot was a study in injury, illness, vomit, violence, depression and pain. It resulted in a pretty funny movie.
Ray, a man with an anger management problem, is kidnapped by aliens, transformed into a gorilla, and pursued by Jacob, a psychotic big game hunter. Dex, a science nerd, constructs the most terrible battlesuit the world has ever seen, but is too shy to reveal his true feelings to Julie, the woman he loves. There's also Sid, a punk rocker who treats everyone like dirt. Julie enjoys spending time with the shy Dex, but really wants to have a good time with Sid. When aliens kidnap Julie, and steal Dex's battlesuit, and both wind up in the hands of the prince of darkness himself, Satan, it is up to these four unlikely heroes to save the world from utter destruction. The world needed superheroes. Instead, it got these guys. Is the world screwed? Find out in Gorilla, Interrupted.
Jay Bauman as Dex | 
Rich Evans as Ray | 
Mike Stoklasa as Sid | 
Garrett Gilchrist as Jacob |
Lisa Renley as Julie |
  
with Laura Dagys, Aliza Rae, Erin Boyle, Jesse Sorgatz, Bret Alan Hoffman and David Ashe
GMP Pictures presents
In association with Blanc Screen Cinema and Orange Cow Productions
An Ow My Movie Production of
GORILLA INTERRUPTED.
Starring Jay Bauman, Rich Evans, Mike Stoklasa, Garrett Gilchrist and Lisa Renley.
Conceived, produced and directed by Mike Stoklasa.
Photographed by Mike Stoklasa, Jay Bauman, and Garrett Gilchrist.
From a screenplay by Mike Stoklasa and David Ashe.
A GMP Pictures Release.
 Deleted scene: David Ashe vs. Jay Bauman
Double your comedy with twice the David Ashe.
(3 mb, Realplayer.) A deleted scene - Dave was asked to mail in a cameo for Gorilla Interrupted, which he had done a script rewrite for. I wrote him a gratuitious little scene he could play, and Dave sent in two versions of a scene ... one in which he played it normally, and one in which he played it as a flamboyantly gay Marxist. Mike edited together both versions, but used the "normal" version. Watch the video (3 mb,
Realplayer) It's the former Orange Cow star vs. Blanc Screen Cinema's Jay Bauman, as Jay tries to call
Julie, the girl he likes, and gets Ashe instead. |
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