Bring MYSTERY TEAM to Atlanta!
It’s may seem strange for me to campaign so hard for a movie, especially one in which I have no financial or personal stake. Well, I do have somewhat of a personal stake because whenever I love this movie, I want more people to see it*. Usually, I don’t have to worry about that because that’s what PR firms and distributors are for. But for the really small films, the films which scraped every cent from the recesses of every couch the filmmakers could find, there’s no budget for that and distributors, to even consider striking the prints and shipping it to an exhibitor (who must be willing to show the film in the first place), there has to be some hint that the film will have an audience.
There’s an audience for Derrick Comedy’s Mystery Team.
When it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival back in January, I heard nothing but positive words. When I finally saw it this past July at the San Diego Comic-Con, most of the theater (myself included) went down to the front to grab a poster for the movie and get it signed by the five members of Derrick Comedy. All the pens the group was using to sign posters ran out of ink.
For those who don’t know, Derrick is a group comprised of performers Donald Glover, DC Pierson, and Dominic Dierkes, director Dan Eckman, and producer Meggie McFadden. Of course, being such a small, independently financed groups, those jobs sometimes overlap. But they’ve built up a devoted following over the past few years with their sketches, all of which can be found on their website. If you want to get a sense of their humor and whether or not it’s for you click on over (My personal favorite is “Girls Aren’t to be Trusted”).
Mystery Team is a cult comedy classic that just needs the chance to build its following. However, in order to bring the film to specific city, the group needs to know that people will show up. The theater willing to show the film needs to know that people will show up. The distributor who has to pay to strike and ship the print needs to know that people will show up. When you’re “Transformers”, that’s not a risky proposition. But folks will have to fight for Mystery Team and I’m drafting the readers of this blog.
Below you’ll find a button that says “Demand It!” This will lead you to the website for Eventful. If you’re not already a member, you’ll have to sign up but they will not send you spam, sell your e-mail, you can opt-out of their newsletter, and it will only take three minutes and then you can never look at the site again if you want. Whether you’re in Atlanta or not, bring this great movie to our city. This is a city that has to fight for true indie films (movies which don’t have any big names attached) and to have it shuffle off here when it hits DVD (whenever that happens and there’s no sign of it being any time soon) is a defeat.
Now maybe it seems like I’m building up this movie too much. Mystery Team team won’t change your life. It doesn’t redefine cinema. It’s just a really great comedy, I want my friends and fellow film-lovers in Atlanta to see it, and all you have to do is click the button below and take the three minutes to make that happen. And if you want to know my full thoughts (spoiler free) about the film, click here to read my review. I’ve also included the trailer below. It’s the green-band trailer so it’s Safe-for-Work, but the red-band (i.e. unrated) sells the film better.
Oh, and in case you think I’m putting too much effort into getting folks to see a movie when there are real problems in the world I could be campaigning for instead, I can do more than one thing. After you take the three minutes to bring Mystery Team to Atlanta, go here to donate to the National Association of Free Clinics because health care reform is far from out of the woods and there are sick people who need your help now. The two are only related by the fact that I care about both and you can too.
*Except for The Mist. Never see that movie unless you have a nightmare fetish.
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