Tom (Fab Filippo) has a bet going with three of his office mates to see who can stay inside their apartment-office-shopping complex the longest. After 24 days of the wager, things begin to get shaky for the foursome. All their needs are provided for in the huge consumer complex. But Curt (Gordon Currie), the office Lothario, needs to find some action. Tom has the uptight Sandra (Marya Delver) convinced that the recycled air they've all been breathing is poisoning her. Meanwhile, Sandra sends Randy (Tobias Godson), an office trainee, on an errand that will force him into the outside world. Tom keeps himself medicated with marijuana, but the bizarre behavior of his cubical-mate (Don McKellar) is wearing on him, and his conscience begins to tug at him when he stays in the building after inadvertently causing an emergency situation outside.
Writer-director Gary Burns captures the tedium of low-level office work and mall life in his acid, funny feature, WAYDOWNTOWN. Shot on digital video, the film features a wealth of neat visual effects, and fine comedic performances, particularly from McKellar, and from James McBurney as a peeping tom-security guard who finishes other peoples' sentences and gives mall patrons animal nicknames.
DVD Features:
Region [unknown]
Keep Case
Full Frame - 1.33
Widescreen - 1.78
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound - English
Additional Release Material:
Behind the Scenes
Trailers: Original Theatrical Trailer
Director of Photography
Patrick McLaughlin: Director of Photography, WAYDOWNTOWN (2001)
Review 1:
"...With its pot-stoked, surrealistic tinges, WAYDOWNTOWN has the feel of a remembered dream....Burns comes up with a genuinely human answer to a technological problem...one can only find guidance within..."
Source: Film Comment
p.74 07/01/2001
Review 2:
"...Clever....The movie is very well acted and makes adroit use of a split screen to suggest a lurking claustrophobia..."
Source: New York Times
01/25/2002
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