A military-driven high school student acquires a video of a government backed murder and finds himself on the run from near-invincible forces.A military-driven high school student acquires a video of a government backed murder and finds himself on the run from near-invincible forces.A military-driven high school student acquires a video of a government backed murder and finds himself on the run from near-invincible forces.
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- TriviaThe clips of the Brunswick Naval Air Station's signage was shot illegally. When the production approached the military personnel at the gates about filming the sign, they were threatened with jail time. As they left, the director pointed the camera at the front gate without looking into the viewfinder, casually looking in the other direction. The shot is included as an establishing shot in the movie. This was about six months after 9/11/01.
- GoofsDialog is missing at the beginning of the last fight scene between Shawn and the bad guy. Norcross' character is mouthing something, but you can't hear anything.
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Film Student: This is going to be a long day.
- Crazy creditsA credit for the owner of a car the director crashed during the production appears very small, compared to the other credits.
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An Independent Film That Proves It's Worth...
I watched 'Hero for a Day' this morning while browsing the IMDb movies that are available. About four hours later, this afternoon, I went to the theater to watch Terminator: Salvation. Now I'm a person who likes to give all movies a chance, but being human, I tend to go into indie-films with a bit of bias, thinking they'll be considerably long due to too much dialog - let's face it, most independent films are dialog heavy because they have absolutely no budget! Between the two movies I watched today, I must say this one stands alone as a better movie on so many levels. While the production value of Terminator was of a higher caliber, it was not a better movie - mainly because of content. There is so much more content in this low budget 20 minute video than in that multi-million dollar feature film. How can this be? What has Hollywood come to? Anyway, I am giving the director five years before he suddenly blows up and makes it big. Based on what I saw here, his talent is worth an investment by Hollywood execs. There internal character struggles, the subtly of their dialog, the action scenes - there are indie-films with higher budgets that don't achieve what was done here. Imagine what he'll do when given some real $$$$.
Anyone who truly appreciates motion pictures should pick this up. I just ordered the DVD off Amazon about ten minutes before writing this up. I can't wait to see the extras. I originally gave it 5 stars, but decided to give it 10 out of spite for Hollywood.
Anyone who truly appreciates motion pictures should pick this up. I just ordered the DVD off Amazon about ten minutes before writing this up. I can't wait to see the extras. I originally gave it 5 stars, but decided to give it 10 out of spite for Hollywood.
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- lesliefarmboy
- Jun 6, 2009
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- Budget
- $5,000 (estimated)
- Runtime20 minutes
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- Dolby Digital(original version)
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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