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A Blind Bargain
USA 2025
produced by
Bing Bailey, Paul Bunnell, John Falotico (executive)
directed by Paul Bunnell
starring Crispin Glover, Jake Horowitz, Lucy Loken, Annalisa Cochrane, Amy Wright, Sean Whalen, Jed Rowen, Rob Mayes, Stephen Marcus, Bill Thornbury, Lulu Bailey, Claudia MacLeod, Galen Howard, Chuck Williams, Alex Ghantous, John Karyus, David Ury, Max Lawrence, Aaron Ball, Jennifer Prettyman, Raul De Anda, Rachel Riley, MisterLobo, Russell Harnden III
story by Bing Bailey, screenplay by John Falotico, Paul Bunnell, music by Ego Plum
review by
Mike Haberfelner
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Ever since his service in the Vietnam War, Dominic (Jake Howowith) has
failed to get his wife back in order. He hasn't got a job, lives with his
mum Joy (Amy Wright), an aging silent movie star, he's addicted to heroin
and owes a fortune to his pusher Vincent (Rob Mayes)- Joy urges him to go
to rehab, threatening to kick him out otherwise - so much so that he
eventually visits a clinic, just for appearances. He immediately falls in
love with Ellie (Lucy Loken), the nurse treating him, and wants to see her
again. So when Ellie calls later that day to tell him that his mother has
a rare blood type and her boss, Dr. Gruder (Crispin Glover) would like to
buy a few gallons of her blood, he sees an opportunity and pretty much
tricks Joy to see the doctor, who promptly sedates her and takes some of
her blood. So for a time, Dominic's problems are over, he pays his debts
and has even money to buy more heroin. Plus Gruder wants Joy to stick
around for some experiments (without her consent), of course against more
money. Things are so on the up it's only a bonus that Ellie start a
relationship. But his perfect world starts to crumble when Dominic
stumbles upon his mother at a party in the company of Gruder's male nurse
Logos (Jed Rowen) - only he's a woman in her twenties (Annalise Cochrane
now (a result of Gruder's experiments), who's even more irresponsible than
he is ...
Now this is a bit of an oddity, it start out as a gangster story of the
drug trade variety before drifting off into horror with a mad scientist
slant, there's a comedic angle as well and spots of surrealism, especially
towards the ending - and the result is a bit of a whirlwind, but thanks to
a solid cas who are playing it straight for the most part and a
wonderfully elegant directorial efffort, the film nevertheless feels like
a coherent whole, and has turned out to be a very worthwhile watch.
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