SYNOPSIS
The most rebellious teenagers in the world, fear no consequence. They are
the lewdest and crudest bunch of teens you will ever have the displeasure to lay
eyes on. With the worry of graduation, and where to score the next sack of
weed as their main source of concern, this young group of gutter-mouth Utah kids
has been led to believe that life is a cake walk. To their surprise, it's
not all it's cracked up to be. But yet, it is still in their nature, as
rebellious teens, to know everything and care about nothing. Relationship
problems, family conflicts, and school troubles; these are just some of the
obstacles that these teens, nearing their twenties, need to pass in their own
personal rat race.
Screen image of Quentin
Hughes
CREDITS
writer/producer/director: Joshua Tai Taeoalii
producer: Nick Westbye
starring: Joel Stanley Huff, Adam J. Woolsey, Matt Watts, Chad Green, Quentin
Hughes, Frankie Gamangasso, Lyle Lambert, Michelle Earle, Stacey Earle, Nick
Westbye, Jerry Green, Christa Denicke.
editor: Joshua Tai Taeoalii
music by: Toby Seljaas
director of photography: Joshua Tai Taeoalii
exectuive producers: Gabe Jolley & Danielle Williams
story by: Joshua Tai Taeoalii & Nick Westbye
screenplay by: Joshua Tai Taeoalii
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Screen image of Chad Green
Screen image of Quentin
Hughes
REVIEWS
by Jeff Vice
Deseret News
Two locally made, feature-length motion pictures are being
screened in Salt Lake City this weekend:
LUCK AND RAT POISONING is the first feature by young Salt Lake filmmakers Joshua
Taeoalii and Nick Westbye. The comedy-drama features a group of teenage and
early 20-something Utahns rebelling against their parents and community. That
rebellion includes taking drugs and indulging in sexual practices. But as
Taeoalii observed, "life isn't as easy as these kids think it is, especially
when you're doing drugs."
"Their minds and relationships are poisoned by drugs, and they have to find out
how to deal with that,'' he said during a telephone interview.
Taeoalii, a self-professed movie buff, wrote the screenplay and directed most of
the scenes. Westbye helped finance the project and eventually wound up directing
the remaining scenes.
The Utah Film & Video Center will screen Luck and Rat Poisoning on Friday, Jan.
9, at the Salt Lake Art Center's Creer Auditorium, 20 S. West Temple.
The movie is not rated, but contains some R-rated language, and some frank and
vulgar references.
Tickets for the one-night-only showing, which starts at 8 p.m., are $5 at the
door. When the film was first screened at the center in October, tickets sold
out and some people had to be turned away at the door.
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