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What If...?

  • 2016
  • 22m
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What If...? (2016)
Short

WHAT IF...? is about a tragedy that doesn't happen. Fourteen-year-old Alison Pope, taking advantage of being home alone, dances around her house in anticipation of a later recital, entirely ... Read allWHAT IF...? is about a tragedy that doesn't happen. Fourteen-year-old Alison Pope, taking advantage of being home alone, dances around her house in anticipation of a later recital, entirely lost in her imagination. Her fantasy is interrupted by a stranger who comes to the door an... Read allWHAT IF...? is about a tragedy that doesn't happen. Fourteen-year-old Alison Pope, taking advantage of being home alone, dances around her house in anticipation of a later recital, entirely lost in her imagination. Her fantasy is interrupted by a stranger who comes to the door and, before she knows it, is dragging her through her backyard towards his van. Next door, K... Read all

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    • Lorielle Mallue
  • Writer
    • Lorielle Mallue
  • Stars
    • Susan Finch
    • Gabrielle Fleck
    • Vince Gatton
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    • Director
      • Lorielle Mallue
    • Writer
      • Lorielle Mallue
    • Stars
      • Susan Finch
      • Gabrielle Fleck
      • Vince Gatton
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    Susan Finch
    • Mrs. Boot
    Gabrielle Fleck
    • Alison Pope
    Vince Gatton
    Vince Gatton
    • Narrator
    • (voice)
    Natasha Graf
    • Mrs. Dees
    Jordan Lage
    Jordan Lage
    • Melvin
    Charley Layton
    • Game Show Host
    Michael Malanga
    Michael Malanga
    • Prince Charming 1
    Michael Mastro
    Michael Mastro
    • The Man
    Mary B. McCann
    Mary B. McCann
    • Mrs. Pope
    Karsten Otto
    • Prince Charming 2
    Karsten Otto
    • Prince Charming 2
    Neil Pepe
    • Mr. Pope
    Charles Tuthill
    • Mr. Boot
    Wesley Zurick
    • Kyle Boot
    • Director
      • Lorielle Mallue
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      • Lorielle Mallue
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    9gregmachlin-21143

    The first George Saunders adaptation: Phenomenal

    George Saunders is the gloriously surreal author of CivilWarLand in Bad Decline and In Persuasion Nation and his novels and stories have been optioned since the late 1990s, but the short film "What If" (based on Saunders' story "Victory Lap") is, as far as I know, the first adaptation of his work to actually make it to the big screen...and it's fantastic. Writer/director Lorielle Mallue takes a narration-heavy story that goes deep into the minds of three very different characters, two teenagers and an adult, and masterfully presents all of them.

    It's hard to give details without spoiling the story, but it takes a very important event in the lives of 3 characters on a seemingly ordinary day in a normal suburban neighborhood.

    There are many ways this short film could've gone wrong; suffice to say Mallue has clearly seen Edgar Wright's fast-cut work and has both a great sense of comedic timing and knows how to build tension, and, along with D.P. John Wakayama Carey, creates images that perfectly fit.

    The four main actors--Gabrielle Fleck as Allison Pope, Wesley Zurick as Kyle Boot, Michael Mastro as The Man and Vince Gatton, doing the best narration since Alec Baldwin in The Royal Tenenbaums--are spot-on.

    Go out of your way to see "What If...?". (Note: Goes without saying, but I have no connection to anyone who made it.)

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