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- MOVIE page: Asleep in a Storm (2013)
- Rate: 4.3/10 total 12 votes
- Genre: Drama
- Budget: $12,000 (estimated)
- Director: Nathan Mancini
- Stars: Emily Bartlow, Troy Beaudry, Ashley Brothers | See full cast and crew
- Original Music By: Jonathan Mihail
- (in alphabetical order)
- Nathan Mancini
- Connor Walsh
Plot: This coming-of-age dramedy stars John Sikma as Rob Connolly, a successful college senior who lives his life like a game of poker... See more » | »
Story: This coming-of-age dramedy stars John Sikma as Rob Connolly, a successful college senior who lives his life like a game of poker, where everyone is hiding something. An insult to Rob's pride sets him on a battle for intellectual superiority against Sam Elmore (Sam Leuenberger), a seemingly insignificant fellow student. The conflict draws in the seniors' friends and shakes the foundation of their college lives. Ultimately, Rob and Sam must decide for themselves if anyone is trustworthy. Written byNathan Mancini
Produced By:
- Nathan Mancini known as producer
- Emily Bartlow known as Jessica's Friend
- Troy Beaudry known as Jack Orchard
- Ashley Brothers known as Hazel
- Evan Burns known as Bevans
- Betsy Craig known as Professor Linda Stebbins
- Laura Doherty known as Olive
- George Hampe known as Guy
- Eric Henry known as Pizza Restaurant Owner
- Andy Hickly known as Victor Hunt
- Jack Hickly known as Filmore
- Esther Hoyt known as Sarah Brundige
- Sam Leuenberger known as Sam Elmore
- Collin Messer known as Dean Finney
- Ethan Mitchell known as Soglowski
- Hannah Muckle known as Bored Classmate
- Natalie Nagel known as Girl
- Sophia Nell known as Jessica Flory
- Grayson Quay known as Victor's Hallmate
- Joel Richardson known as Marinelli
- Anthony Ritchie known as Pillager
- Laura Santamaria known as Student Assistant
- Michael Shang known as Annoying Student
- John Sikma known as Rob Connolly
- Anne York known as Claire Deely
- James Zilenziger known as Debate Opponent
Asleep in a Storm (2013) Review by Anthony Wahtt (anthony.wahtt@gmail.com) from United States
Attending Grove City College senior Nathan Mancini's anticipatedpremiere of Asleep in a Storm, I found myself immersed in excitement.Students were buzzing and Mancini was telling the hive how ecstatic hewas about the quality of the film – twelve thousand dollars-worth ofquality.
Unfortunately, this "award-winning director" isn't going to be winningany notable awards with this movie. Mancini was given twelve thousanddollars and returned a film that is genuinely un-enjoyable. Viewers canexpect sub-par quality. The juvenile plot, poor scripting and technicalfeatures push it far below most student independent films. Myselfhaving almost a decade of film experience, Asleep in a Storm nowherenear satisfied me.
Regardless of my credentials, I seemed to have been made the fool. Bynot finding myself privy to the film's greatness I saw myself as theoutcast. The crowd roared. People applauded. I sat there and questionedthem, "Why?" But the answer to this was no mystery. Mancini did well.He provided the GCC audience with something they were familiar with andcould associate with. Having seen one frame, the students knew theexact location and were completely comfortable there. And who doesn'tthink it cool to see their friends and peers on screen?
Let us step away – away from the so familiar campus, familiar dorms,familiar faces – and look at this production from a more objectivestandpoint.
Cinematography. It's important. When Streaminging Asleep in a Storm, youcan tell Mancini and Moffett (the credited cinematographer) did notattend Filmmaking 101. The shot placement is extremely awkward. Mancinihas this strange affinity for placing his characters up against walls.This establishes no depth of field and is very visually boring. Did Imention camera angles? From confusing establishing shots to awkwardclose-ups, it was most definitely amateur. You have an expensive andversatile camera, Mancini. Use it. I can get better footage out of aDSLR.
Mancini also loves his montages. (Like I said, he didn't attend 101.)Rob goes about one of his monologues as shots are shown of himawkwardly moving about his dorm. In the chase scene, all of the aerialshots are shown one after the other. When Sam Elmore was discussing hislack of interpersonal skills to a fellow classmate, an over-extendedflashback was shown of Sam's past failures. I kept looking at my Streamingwondering if it was going to make up the entirety of the film. Littledid I know at that time that this was only the first extended flashbackto come.
Audio. Don't even get me started. I'm a third-generation professionalsound technician. I can confidently state that nobody put theappropriate effort into or had enough experience to record, level, ormix the audio. When Sam screamed after brushing his teeth with hotsauce, my ears started to bleed from the clipping audio waves. Hey, thecredit music sounded good.
The plot also had a lot to be desired. Firstly, the whole movierevolves around how many times Caesar is stabbed. This – to me – doesnot justify Rob Connolly going on a maniacal frenzy and exacting hisrevenge on poor Sam who just asked a simple question. Then Rob and Samengage in an extremely juvenile prank war that escalates to bothparties hating each other. I found very little of the slapstick humoramusing, but I did laugh at parts. Now here's the twist: Sam is foundinnocent. It was actually Victor – a side character – who was prankingRob. Yes, poor Sam is dragged into this chaos and confusion. What isVictor's motive? He (paraphrasing) "doesn't want to let Rob win." …Winwhat? Win senior of the year? Win by bringing Sam down? What doesVictor have against Rob? Who is Victor, anyway? God doesn't know.Anyway, Rob is put to shame. Now he and Sam are "insta-friends." Samsets up this climactic inspirational speech for Rob to present. Rob'sex – who he hasn't seen in two years – shows up as a random dramaticreconciliation. Why? Because it's dramatic. She isn't even a sidecharacter throughout the movie.
Despite the directing, the casting was fantastic. All of the actorsassumed their roles very well and portrayed them fabulously. Bravo.However, there was one character that should not have even existed.Mancini, get out of the shot. I don't care if you're making a movie ina movie. Your whole "movie-ception" was not funny and veryunprofessional – an embarrassing cameo.
Mancini gave Grove City College students a movie about Grove CityCollege students. He has undoubtedly proved that you can make a "good"movie with enough marketing and hype. However, from a filmmakingperspective, this movie is worth nowhere near twelve thousand dollarsand remains in the category of less-than-amateur quality films. (2/10)
Asleep in a Storm (2013) Review by Sam Williamson
Asleep in a Storm has a simple yet inviting premise. Rob Connolly is asoon-to-be graduating college senior with a jaded view on the collegeexperience. He believes he has everyone and everything figured out andwith little effort, presumes to know the intentions and abilities ofanyone who crosses his path, which he likens to living life like a gameof poker. His path eventually leads to a classroom confrontation withSam Elmore, also a senior whose ridiculous attention to all thingsirrelevant irritates Rob to the point of seeking revenge. While thesetup of the plot before this point is decently inviting andwell-conceived, the moment conflict enters, the writing turns to a messand this is the first example. Rob is so enraptured with the thoughtsof revenge pranking on Sam that he enlists his friend, Jack Orchard, togo on a pranking rampage. Allow me to set the scene for those of youreading this. Rob is giving a presentation in class about theassassination of Caesar. After completing, he takes questions from hisclassmates. Sam politely asks what kind of daggers were used in hisassassination to which Rob answers a Pugio, a type of military daggerused by the Roman army at the time. Sam then asks another question: howmany times was Caesar stabbed? Rob replies that Caesar was stabbed 33times to which Rob's professor jumps in to correct Rob by saying thatit was Shakespeare who said it was 33 stabs while historians agree thatit was actually 23. The professor then admonishes Rob for his lack ofknowledge and comments that this is a detail that Rob would usuallyhave gotten correct. Here is where all believability flees from thisfilm. If Rob is a very thorough and academically hardworking collegestudent, which is established earlier in the film by this sameprofessor revealing that she has nominated him for the Senior of theYear award, then Rob would not have made a simple mistake as to believea Shakespearean account of a historical event when even the most basichigh school literature class would remind its students to not believeShakespeare's history as it was heavily fictionalized. Certainly anintelligent and meticulous college senior would not make such a basicmistake and because of this mistake, which is deemed by the plot asRob's fault and pointed out by his professor, Rob, for some reason,decides that Sam is to blame and will dedicate all of his resources tomaking college life a living hell for Sam. After this incident, Rob,with the help of Jack, sets a first prank for Sam who then isencouraged by his friend, Victor Hunt, to retaliate in kind. Theirrespective pranking continues to escalate until Rob resorts to makingan illegal copy of Sam's room key in order to purloin Sam's backpack,containing his laptop. However, it is established previously in thefilm that Sam does not lock his door and that when he attempts to, henever realizes that locking it from the inside doesn't allow the lockto stay locked after the door is shut. Rob must have been perfectlyaware of this as one of the earlier pranks involved setting multiplealarm clocks in Sam's room. So why did Rob need to illegally copy Sam'sroom key? Because the plot demanded that he do just that for later, Robis caught by the college dean who has knowledge of Rob's illegalactions. Examples of characters serving the plot happen throughout thismovie and it clearly displays the poor writing as it makes thecharacters seem completely flat and unbelievable. Examples would be:how it is established that Sam always seems to leave his cell phone inhis room except for when the plot requires that he have his phone onhim or how it is shown that all of Rob's poker-playing buddies leavethe circle of friends for no apparent reason. Rob's friend, Sarah,leaves Rob's friendship after he has an emotional breakdown in thecafeteria and refuses to tell her why. Friends don't just leavefriendships because of one minor incident that didn't have any directimpact. Rob's friend Jack also leaves after finding out that Rob hadplanned to ruin Sam's date night, even though it is not establishedthat Jack has a conscience until this point. Up until now Jack'scharacter had consisted of being a simple prankster whose only purposeis to serve Rob. However, even as many sins as this movie has up tothis point, the final straw in the bad writing of this film must be theentirety of the character of Victor Hunt. Victor is an absolute mess ofa character who does the most nonsensical things just so that the plotmoves forward. At first, he appears as one of Rob's poker buddies thenhe completely changes course as he encourages Sam to escalate therespective pranking, acting as Sam's creative source for prankingideas. Eventually, Victor turns into a major antagonist and reveals howhe was behind the dean's knowledge of Rob's illegal activities. Also, avery badly composed plot line involves Victor sending a letter to Rob'sex-girlfriend in an attempt to make her think that he has become aworse person but due to Victor's ineptitude at letter writing, it hasthe opposite effect and Rob's ex-girlfriend returns to him with loveanew. None of Victor's actions make any sense and his motivation forwhy he performs his actions is non-existent. Without a doubt, VictorHunt is the worst written character in this movie and his role asantagonist only serves to antagonize the audience with intenseconfusion. Overall, the plot and characterization of this movie isatrocious and it is mind-boggling how this was possibly conceived as apossible good idea. If you want to know what I mean, view this filmwith the knowledge that nothing will make sense.
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