Bait an Oscar

Authors: Douglas Reese
Location: Clarksville, Ohio

“Bait an Oscar”

Directed by Johnny Alba
Written by Pat, Harry Jason Somerton, Daniel Crooke,Matt, Maia, Zgamer, Douglas Reese, &Johnny Alba

Principal Cast:

Pat
Harry
Daniel Crooke
Matt
Maia
Zgamer
James Somerton
Douglas Reese
Johnny Alba

Tagline: "A Fake Oscar Goes a LONG way!"

Synopsis: In this inventive, fresh, and wacky picture which confused hundreds of critics and amused a few number of people on a small website, ‘Bait an Oscar’ is surely a classic movie for its pointlessness and its wildly uncreative seriousness. Starring a number of people who hardly anybody knows and featuring spoofs of some movies that only exist in the wildly interesting minds of very creative people.

It is August 2006 and seven different film fanatics have the time of their lives as they make movie ideas and submit them to participate in Bait an Oscar contest on a website called The Oscar Igloo. The film unfolds in a ten-minute prologue as it instructs you and educates you about the contest, narrated by the website’s owner himself (director of film Johnny Alba).

As the film goes along, it introduces you to the seven title characters that all have their “baits” prepared for the contest. Pat, a forum favorite sent in the bait “Photograph”, an ensemble piece. Harry sent in a musical called “The B&W Show”, Daniel Crooke sent in “Steamboat Disney”, a biopic focusing on Walt Disney. Matt sent in “Internet Connection”, a bait that was “robbed” according to Douglas Reese, whose bait was the controversial conversation-starter “Bruised Boys”. Maia sent in “The Arabic Café”, the predicted winner. While James Somerton was booed and almost ignored of his thriller “The Apocalypse of Angela Reed”, he may turn out to be on top! And finally, the bait EVERYONE loved – “Wackos”, will make many people pissed if it doesn’t take the prize!

To it all up, the film shows how the baiters got their bait’s ideas, shows dangerous twisters of arguments on The Oscar Igloo’s forums, showing a fictionalized and blisteringly well-acted Oscar night showing from the red carpet to the winner for Best Picture, and topping it all off when it interrupts the program every once in a while to show you spoofs of baits, each one lasting less than a minute. The crowd favorite is when Harry spoofs “Bruised Boys” as he reenacts the “five-minute sex scene” and gives a speech of hilarious lust to a completely CGI man!

Laughs are only some of the major originality in “Bait an Oscar”, a film that only a few people will probably like. And if you don’t like it, Johnny doesn’t give a ----!

What the press would say:

“After I watched this film I found out that The Oscar Igloo was a real site and I am now an official member of judging the baits that the creative filmbuffs create. The website AND the movie are exciting.”

Richard Roeper said this on Ebert & Roeper last week…

…every other critic hated it!

For Your Consideration

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DIRECTOR (Johnny Alba)
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