Mark Ruffalo's directorial debut Sympathy For Delicious premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. The film is an independent dramedy about a newly paralyzed DJ who "gets more than he bargained for when he seeks out the world of faith healing." /Film's own David Chen saw the film at Sundance, here is a short excerpt…
Read MoreEditor's Note: Filmmaker Jake Scott has been blogging his Sundance experience on /Film. You might not know 42-year-old director Jake Scott yet, but you will. You definitely know his father Ridley, the filmmaker behind such films as Alien, Gladiator, and Blade Runner (Jake worked in the editing room during the school holidays). Chances are, you've…
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Sundance 2010 has seen several actors make the transition into directing. Philip Seymour Hoffman and Diego Luna both have films premiering here, but it was Mark Ruffalo's film, Sympathy for Delicious, that caught my attention with its outlandish premise. In the film, Dean O'Dwyer (played by writer and real-life paraplegic Christopher Thornton) plays a down-on-his…
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The end of this week is like a race to keep up with the flood of trailers and clips coming out of Sundance. On deck now is nine minutes of Sympathy for Delicious. It is the first film directed by actor Mark Ruffalo, written by and starring Christopher Thornton, who plays "a newly paralyzed DJ…
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