Before the excellent "Small Town Crime" & original "Fatman", co-directors / co-writers Eshom & Ian Nelms made (with 3rd co-writer Autumn McAlpin) modest (bland) 2015 drama "Waffle Street" - the true tale of ethical James Lafferty (good) being fired from his unethical high-finance job to start over (with big honest dreams) as a minimum-wage trainee at a waffle house (serving Dale Dickey & others with Danny Glover & others)... to the near exasperation of patient (& pregnant) wife Julie Gonzalo. It's a solid, sound, 'nice' moral tale... that lacks any kind of real edge to make it interesting. The Nelms boys would go on to make much, much better films.
Review of Waffle Street
Waffle Street
(2015)
Modest, bland drama that lacks any real edge - far from the Nelms brothers' best
12 February 2023