The Sick Story, Cast, & Crew
Sometimes it's hard to tell. And sometimes it takes a child with the wisdom of an adult, to change an adult who is acting like a child. And sometimes the only problem is, the grown up has to listen. And it's hard to listen when you are
Sick Of It All.
Sick Of It All.
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ANTONY, a stressed out, grown up, toy collector, has lost his youthful ways. Perhaps he lost his vigor through years of telemarketing, or it could be his constant struggle with the modern world. But maybe just maybe it's because he finds himself in a loveless relationship with his lady of ten years, ROSE. Is it time for Antony to grow up and join the new age "sonic healing cult"? Or will he take the sage advice offered by his 7 year old nephew and find himself again?
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The Classic Film Noir style with it’s drastic lighting, dark angles and even darker plots was all the inspiration Brian McGuire to create the dark and charming, Sick Of It All.
From about 1944 to 1954, French critics applied the term "Film Noir" to describe the popular, gritty, detective films that where coming from American cinema. One definition says "Film Noir is a style or genre of cinematographic film marked by a mood of pessimism, fatalism, and menace". Another, "A French term meaning "black film," or film of the night. And perhaps the best definition found, "A movie which at no time misleads you into thinking there is going to be a happy ending." The "Film Noir" period invented many cheap, creative, and powerful film, and story telling technics. From canted camera frames, to emotional use of light and shadow. These definitions, attitudes, and the history, was all the inspiration Brian McGuire and crew needed to create the dark and charming, Sick Of It All. That, and McGuire's love for the French children's book, The Little Prince. |
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THE SICK CAST & CREW
LOGAN SPARKS as Antony Prince
Logan Sparks is a Producer, Actor, Writer and Standup Comic. Since graduating from the USC Film School he has produced 5 out of the 7 films in the McGuire catalogue, and he has memorably acted in 6. Logan's old school mug of a face, and his very funny comic rhythm make him the perfect “Antony". Logan is in post production on a film he wrote and produced entitled Lucky. Starring Harry Dean Stanton and David Lynch. www.logansparksproductions.com
Logan Sparks is a Producer, Actor, Writer and Standup Comic. Since graduating from the USC Film School he has produced 5 out of the 7 films in the McGuire catalogue, and he has memorably acted in 6. Logan's old school mug of a face, and his very funny comic rhythm make him the perfect “Antony". Logan is in post production on a film he wrote and produced entitled Lucky. Starring Harry Dean Stanton and David Lynch. www.logansparksproductions.com
Amy Claire as Rose
Amy Claire was raised in Lake Charles, Louisiana. At an early age, her father started calling her his little “RAP”: Redneck American Princess. Amy has a strong background in improv and sketch comedy and also a degree in theatre from USC. Someone once asked Amy why she liked doing stand-up comedy, with drink in hand, she blurted out, “Because I get excited when it’s my turn to talk.” Amy did a stint on Last Comic Standing. Amy has opened for Josh Wolf, Liam Sullivan, and Dana Carvey, which was her dreamiest dreamy night ever. She loves USC college football and is kind of gifted with animals.
For more info on Amy: www.missamyclaire.com
For more info on Amy:www.missamyclaire.com
Amy Claire was raised in Lake Charles, Louisiana. At an early age, her father started calling her his little “RAP”: Redneck American Princess. Amy has a strong background in improv and sketch comedy and also a degree in theatre from USC. Someone once asked Amy why she liked doing stand-up comedy, with drink in hand, she blurted out, “Because I get excited when it’s my turn to talk.” Amy did a stint on Last Comic Standing. Amy has opened for Josh Wolf, Liam Sullivan, and Dana Carvey, which was her dreamiest dreamy night ever. She loves USC college football and is kind of gifted with animals.
For more info on Amy: www.missamyclaire.com
For more info on Amy:www.missamyclaire.com
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Zion McGuire as L.P.
Zion is truly an old soul trapped inside a 7 year old. He is the main inspiration for getting his uncle Brian McGuire to make this movie. Zion loves to wear suits and bow ties. He loves doing impressions of old men. Zion will steal your heart! This is Zion's debut as an actor. |
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Chris Doubek as Camillian Daily
Hailing from the great Austin Texas, Chris Doubek is a legendary actor in the indie film scene,. Some of his many great movies are, Lovers of Hate, A Teacher, Computer Chess, Good Night, and Slacker 2. As Camillian in Sick of it All, Chris plays a brand new type of "New Age" guru. Chris is more than wacky enough to to fill these "New Age" shoes, and of course this role was written for Mr. Doubek.
Hailing from the great Austin Texas, Chris Doubek is a legendary actor in the indie film scene,. Some of his many great movies are, Lovers of Hate, A Teacher, Computer Chess, Good Night, and Slacker 2. As Camillian in Sick of it All, Chris plays a brand new type of "New Age" guru. Chris is more than wacky enough to to fill these "New Age" shoes, and of course this role was written for Mr. Doubek.
Emmet McGuire as Barbra Prince
Emmet is brother to Brian McGuire and father to Zion. Emmet has acted in every film that his brother has made. He is a music producer and performer. Emmet's work as an actor in Carlos Spills The Beans, playing "Ed Boyle" is the stuff of legend. |
Rica Rigor as
Foxy Prince Rica is the real life “Foxy”. As mother of Zion and wife to Emmet, you will see a real family playing a fictional family in the film! Rica is all attitude and flavor. |
The Sklar Brothers as Officer Recum & Officer Feltcher
RANDY AND JASON SKLAR BEGAN AS ONE ZYGOTE and later guest starred in many TV shows, including an Emmy Award winning episode of HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm, the FX hit It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, as well as Adult Swim’s Childrens’ Hospital. They starred as conjoined twins in a memorable episode of Grey’s Anatomy, and as warring agents on HBO’s Entourage. Sick Of It All is the 2nd McGuire film The Sklar Brothers have appeared in.
www.supersklars.com
RANDY AND JASON SKLAR BEGAN AS ONE ZYGOTE and later guest starred in many TV shows, including an Emmy Award winning episode of HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm, the FX hit It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, as well as Adult Swim’s Childrens’ Hospital. They starred as conjoined twins in a memorable episode of Grey’s Anatomy, and as warring agents on HBO’s Entourage. Sick Of It All is the 2nd McGuire film The Sklar Brothers have appeared in.
www.supersklars.com
Foster Timms as Snake
Foster Timms is not a human. He is an enigma wrapped in a mystery. No one knows where he comes from, or where he goes during the day, but everyone agrees he is a brilliant musician and Actor. This will be his fourth movie with Mr. McGuire.
Foster Timms is not a human. He is an enigma wrapped in a mystery. No one knows where he comes from, or where he goes during the day, but everyone agrees he is a brilliant musician and Actor. This will be his fourth movie with Mr. McGuire.
& The Legendary Harry Dean Stanton as Harry The News ReporterHarry Dean Stanton is an American actor, musician, and legend. Stanton's career has spanned over fifty years. seen in such films as Paris, Texas, Kelly's Heroes, Dillinger, Alien, Repo Man, Pretty In Pink, The Last Temptation of Christ, and Wild at Heart, to name a few. This will be the 4th McGuire film for Mr Stanton to appear in.
Brian McGuire...Writer/Editor/Director
Since 2010 Brian McGuire has written & directed seven feature films. McGuire has an intense, creative, & prolific ability to tell stories. Brian's directorial debut film On Holiday, had it's world premiere in London, at The Raindance Film Festival in 2010, and saw him stand out as one of the “Top Ten New Filmmakers to Watch”. Later that year, after McGuire was in post production on his second feature The Black Belle, he was awarded “Best New Filmmaker Of The Year” at the Downtown LA Film Festival. From there, McGuire has worked with actors like John Hawkes, Mark Boone Junior, James Duval, and Harry Dean Stanton. With films screened at festivals around the world. You can find McGuire's films on most major online stores and prescription streaming sites.
McGuire recently forged a partnership with the legendary filmmaker, Obake Sakka. With plans in the works, McGuire & Sakka are in preproduction on their first collaboration.
McGuire's previous films are:
On Holiday - The Black Belle - Carlos Spills The Beans - Prevertere - WiNdOw LiCkEr - 1 World 100 Lonely - Sick Of It All
Since 2010 Brian McGuire has written & directed seven feature films. McGuire has an intense, creative, & prolific ability to tell stories. Brian's directorial debut film On Holiday, had it's world premiere in London, at The Raindance Film Festival in 2010, and saw him stand out as one of the “Top Ten New Filmmakers to Watch”. Later that year, after McGuire was in post production on his second feature The Black Belle, he was awarded “Best New Filmmaker Of The Year” at the Downtown LA Film Festival. From there, McGuire has worked with actors like John Hawkes, Mark Boone Junior, James Duval, and Harry Dean Stanton. With films screened at festivals around the world. You can find McGuire's films on most major online stores and prescription streaming sites.
McGuire recently forged a partnership with the legendary filmmaker, Obake Sakka. With plans in the works, McGuire & Sakka are in preproduction on their first collaboration.
McGuire's previous films are:
On Holiday - The Black Belle - Carlos Spills The Beans - Prevertere - WiNdOw LiCkEr - 1 World 100 Lonely - Sick Of It All
ROBERT MURPHY - Cinematographer
In 2009, Robert worked as the cinematographer and supporting actor in the feature film In Search of a Midnight Kiss. It premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York and went on to play festivals around the world. It received theatrical distribution through IFC and Vertigo pictures, and played in theaters around the world. In Search of a Midnight Kiss went on to win the John Cassavetes Independent Spirit Award. It was also named one of the top ten independent films of the year by the National Board of Review.
Robert was singled out for his cinematography, with positive reviews from both Roger Ebert and Anthony Lane of the New Yorker:
"Photographed in glorious black and white by Robert Murphy." --Roger Ebert
"And yet Holdridge, in consort with his director of photography, Robert Murphy, has delivered a beautiful piece of work. It is shot in black-and-white—proper black, as rich and as sleek as cat's fur, not the washed-out tin grays that you might expect. Murphy is treading in the footsteps of the James Wong Howe who shot 'Sweet Smell of Success' and the Gordon Willis who shot 'Manhattan.'" --Anthony Lane, The New Yorker
In 2011 Robert worked as the cinematographer and co-editor on the feature film Carlos Spills the Beans. It premiered at the Los Angeles Downtown Film Festival in 2012 and is also slated to play the Raindance Film Festival in London in 2013. Directed by Brian McGuire, Carlos Spills the Beans stars Joey Capone, Bret Roberts, Harry Dean Stanton, Brian McGuire, Elena Krauz, Jimmy Duval, C.C. Sheffield, and Mark Boone, Junior. Robert won the award for best cinematography at the Los Angeles Downtown Film Festival in 2012.
In 2009, Robert worked as the cinematographer and supporting actor in the feature film In Search of a Midnight Kiss. It premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York and went on to play festivals around the world. It received theatrical distribution through IFC and Vertigo pictures, and played in theaters around the world. In Search of a Midnight Kiss went on to win the John Cassavetes Independent Spirit Award. It was also named one of the top ten independent films of the year by the National Board of Review.
Robert was singled out for his cinematography, with positive reviews from both Roger Ebert and Anthony Lane of the New Yorker:
"Photographed in glorious black and white by Robert Murphy." --Roger Ebert
"And yet Holdridge, in consort with his director of photography, Robert Murphy, has delivered a beautiful piece of work. It is shot in black-and-white—proper black, as rich and as sleek as cat's fur, not the washed-out tin grays that you might expect. Murphy is treading in the footsteps of the James Wong Howe who shot 'Sweet Smell of Success' and the Gordon Willis who shot 'Manhattan.'" --Anthony Lane, The New Yorker
In 2011 Robert worked as the cinematographer and co-editor on the feature film Carlos Spills the Beans. It premiered at the Los Angeles Downtown Film Festival in 2012 and is also slated to play the Raindance Film Festival in London in 2013. Directed by Brian McGuire, Carlos Spills the Beans stars Joey Capone, Bret Roberts, Harry Dean Stanton, Brian McGuire, Elena Krauz, Jimmy Duval, C.C. Sheffield, and Mark Boone, Junior. Robert won the award for best cinematography at the Los Angeles Downtown Film Festival in 2012.
Logan Sparks Productions & W.B.I. Present A LeftHouse Film
MARK E FLETCHER - Producer
LOGAN SPARKS - Producer
BRIAN MCCORMICK - Producer
Roger Mater - Producer
Veronica Radaelli - Producer
Haxsaw & Dugin...Music
Mike Barone...Sound mixer
Darryl Williams...Sound mixer
James Avallone...Assistant camera / gaffer
Doug Frerichs...Gaffer/Art work
Sharad Kant Patel...Special FX
Emmet McGuire...Sound
Jenny Le...Catering
Stefania Rosini...On Set Photography
MARK E FLETCHER - Producer
LOGAN SPARKS - Producer
BRIAN MCCORMICK - Producer
Roger Mater - Producer
Veronica Radaelli - Producer
Haxsaw & Dugin...Music
Mike Barone...Sound mixer
Darryl Williams...Sound mixer
James Avallone...Assistant camera / gaffer
Doug Frerichs...Gaffer/Art work
Sharad Kant Patel...Special FX
Emmet McGuire...Sound
Jenny Le...Catering
Stefania Rosini...On Set Photography
THE LITTLE PRINCE
McGuire on The Little Prince - "This is the most important book in the world. it truly shaped and guided me through this life time. it constantly reminds me to always remember that it's an elephant inside a Boa constrictor and not a hat."
McGuire on The Little Prince - "This is the most important book in the world. it truly shaped and guided me through this life time. it constantly reminds me to always remember that it's an elephant inside a Boa constrictor and not a hat."
