Alex Andero: Michael Parducci	Elliot Springer: Peter Jacobson
Gwen Colton: Judy Prescott	Joey Worcieukowski: Kerr Smith
Jagger Stevens: Hoyt Richards	Director: Christopher Livingston

30 Second Bottom Line: Two opposite-type men, one gay, Jewish and intellectual, the other straight, Catholic, untalented, collaborate on a movie script and after much battling over their differences come to appreciate each other.

Story Line: Alex (Michael Parducci) has an idea for a movie script: A hit man is involved in the world of high fashion models and blasts away with his machine gun at a runway event. Alex manages through his uncle to sell the concept, but he needs to submit writing samples, of which he has none.

In fact his "front door" is the metal sheet on the sidewalk in front of the cafe', where supplies are typically hoisted down for storage. You knock on his door by stomping your foot on the metal grate. Alex seems to be the lost loser in his family, unable or unwilling to support himself. He's been living off the generosity of his father who has just passed away. His siblings refuse to carry him any longer and insist he at least wash dishes in the cafe'.

He's a pathetic sort who drams his life better than he lives it. When he needs a writing sample, he stumbles upon one in the cafe', dropped off by Elliot, a gay Jewish intellectual who has a crush on a waiter working there. Alex submits Elliot's screenplay "Chicken of the Sea" as his own and gets the go-ahead from the studio. The challenge is on: Alex must write and submit a script and he seems to have no talent himself for writing. Alex tracks down Elliot and begs him to co-write the screenplay with him. Elliot ultimately agrees, lured into the project by Alex's promise of a fix-up date with Joey, the waiter.

Ultimately Elliot writes a moralistic, sensitive story and refuses to change its tone when the studio's demand revisions. The entire process proves to be a growing experience--especially for Alex.

Tell Me More About It: I found the writing canned and contrived. the lines were supposed to be funny, but hardly ever made me laugh. Much of the humor was on a slapstick level with lots of crashing, bumbling accidents and frantic chaotic running.

Elliot is set up as a Woody Allen wanna-be. It didn't work for me. Elliot has a date with Joey (the very handsome Kerr Smith) who claims he's turned on by Jewish men because he loves the "hck" sound of the Yiddish words they speak. Elliot then goes on to rattle off a slew of Yiddish words, like this is hysterically funny. Maybe it's just me, but I didn't find it funny. Perhaps if Alex had some talent to contribute to the writing, it would have hooked me into his character more. As he is, he just seemed like a shallow, scamming, baby-brother who wants everybody else to do the work.