Hearts of Dorkness Follows Patrick Johnson While Road-Testing 5-25-77: A Filmmakers Cross-Country Odyssey
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A coming-of-age tale, from writer/director Patrick Read Johnson (Dragon Heart, Angus, and Baby’s Day Out), 5-25-77 is the story of the final life-changing year of the only science-fiction- obsessed teen filmmaker in the rural town of Wadsworth, Illinois (population 750), and the amazing series of events that propel him toward a date with destiny… May 25, 1977.The day a little movie called “Star Wars” opened in “theaters everywhere.” Starring John Francis Daley (Freaks and Geeks, Waiting, and Bones), Austin Pendleton (The Notorious Betty Page, My Cousin Vinny), Colleen Camp (Apocalypse Now, Election), and Neil Flynn (The Middle, Scrubs), 5-25-77 pits the teenager’s desire to escape “fly-over country” by heading to Hollywood, against his fear of leaving everything he knows and loves behind to chase an unlikely dream.On May 25th, 2012, on the 35th anniversary of the release of the original Star Wars, Patrick Read Johnson departed Wadsworth, Illinois, in the film’s 1975 Ford Pinto, heading west, to begin a 30-day cross-country test-screening campaign designed to raise money and awareness to finally bring his long-awaited film to the screen.A coming-of-age tale, from writer/director Patrick Read Johnson (Dragon Heart, Angus, and Baby’s Day Out), 5-25-77 is the story of the final life-changing year of the only science-fiction- obsessed teen filmmaker in the rural town of Wadsworth, Illinois (population 750), and the amazing series of events that propel him toward a date with destiny… May 25, 1977.The day a little movie called “Star Wars” opened in “theaters everywhere.”Starring John Francis Daley (Freaks and Geeks, Waiting, and Bones), Austin Pendleton (The Notorious Betty Page, My Cousin Vinny), Colleen Camp (Apocalypse Now, Election), and Neil Flynn (The Middle, Scrubs), 5-25-77 pits the teenager’s desire to escape “fly-over country” by heading to Hollywood, against his fear of leaving everything he knows and loves behind to chase an unlikely dream.On May 25th, 2012, on the 35th anniversary of the release of the original Star Wars, Patrick Read Johnson departed Wadsworth, Illinois, in the film’s 1975 Ford Pinto, heading west, to begin a 30-day cross-country test-screening campaign designed to raise money and awareness to finally bring his long-awaited film to the screen.The highlights of Patricks road trip will eventually be compiled in Hearts of Dorkness, a documentary that will also cover the making of 5-25-77.Thus far, Johnson has held successful test-screenings in comic book shops, independent theaters, and under the stars in Fairfield, Iowa; Omaha, Nebraska; Devil’s Tower, Wyoming; and Boulder, Colorado.
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