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monty
Rejected by Columbia Pictures executives in 1970. It failed to find a distributor because no one found it funny. It sat on the shelf for 20 years until Mr. Roemer submitted it to the New York Film Festival in 1989. It was accepted there, and subsequently released theatrically, to rave reviews.
Siskoid
If there's a plot against Harry in The Plot Against Harry, it's one of his own making, or of his choices masquerading as Fate. Sure, there's a whole thing about having to testify against another mobster and maybe they're out to get him, but the movie isn't really about that. Rather, writer-director Michael Roemer will push Harry (Martin Priest) into a position where he has to do the right thing - by his family, by society - in spite of his venal impulses. A very dry comedy that failed to get a rise out of me, but that's partly due to the film making. Shot in a kind of cinema verité, the movie is just insanely noisy. At first, I thought the car phone bit was clever, since this guy needed a wake up call if he was going to get through parole. But as the sound design piled up noise after noise throughout, that verisimilitude took me out of the experience. It's not like I don't get enough noises in my own neighborhood... I watch movies to couch against that!
