13 Moons
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The director of such off-beat independent films as In the Soup, director Alexandre Rockwell once again teams with that film's star to deliver this Los Angeles-based comedy concerning superstition and intersecting lives. Things aren't looking so good for television clown Banana's (Steve Buscemi) career, and the fact that his estranged wife, Suzi (Jennifer Beals), has just been arrested for assaulting his girlfriend, Lily (Karyn Parsons), just serves to compound Banana's despair. Teaming with sidekick Binky (Peter Dinklage) to enlist the aid of bail-bondsman Mo (David Proval), Banana and Binky discover that Mo is currently negotiating the release of hip-hop mogul Lenny's (Daryl Mitchell) wife, Sandra (Rose Rollins). The hapless group soon teams to help Mo by finding a suitable kidney donor for the bail-bondsman's ailing son, and though they quickly happen across a drunk (Peter Stormare) who fits the bill, the trouble comes in keeping the prospect in the hospital. Doing their best to help Mo's son under increasingly chaotic circumstances, personal tensions flare as each character desperately tries to simultaneously battle their own inner demons. ~ Jason Buchanan, RoviCast
- Steve Buscemi - Bananas
- Peter Dinklage - Binky
- David Proval - Mo
- Daryl Mitchell - Lenny
- Karyn Parsons - Lily
Credit
Georgianne Walken - Casting, Sheila Jaffe - Casting, Lisa Parmet - Costume Designer, Alexandre Rockwell - Director, John David Allen - Editor, Norm Waitt - Executive Producer, Brian Kelly - Composer (Music Score), Kevin Salem - Composer (Music Score), Lynn Geller - Musical Direction/Supervision, Susan Jacobs - Musical Direction/Supervision, Chuck Voelter - Production Designer, Phil Parmet - Cinematographer, Alexandre Rockwell - Producer, Andrea Sperling - Producer, Jeff Levine - Producer, Brandon Cole - Producer, Larry Katz - Producer, Michael Din - Producer, Alexandre Rockwell - Screenwriter, Brandon Cole - Screenwriter| 13 Months of Sunshine (2007 Film), 13 Men and a Gun (1938 Film) | |
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13 Moons
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| Directed by | Alexandre Rockwell |
| Produced by | Paul Brooks (executive) Brandon Cole Mike Crawford (line) Michael Din Larry Katz (executive) David Kronemeyer |
| Written by | Brandon Cole Alexandre rockwell |
| Starring | Jennifer Beals Elizabeth Bracco Steve Buscemi Peter Dinklage Sam Rockwell Peter Stormare |
| Music by | Brian Kelly Kevin Salem |
| Cinematography | Phil Parmet |
| Editing by | John David Allen |
| Distributed by | 13 Moons Productions LLC Lot 47 Films |
| Release date(s) | January 2002 |
| Running time | 93 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
13 Moons is a 2002 comedy-drama film by director Alexandre Rockwell. The title is a reference to the saying of a minor character's mother, who suggested that if nights of the full moon are strange, then "this must be the night of thirteen moons."
Plot
The movie begins with a clown (Buscemi) whose wife (Beals) and stripper girlfriend (Parsons) just discovered each other's existence. When his wife is jailed for trying to run him over, the stripper, the clown and his partner (Dinklage) contact a bail bondsman (Proval) whose wife just left their sickly son Timmy (Wolff) in his care. On the way, they are accosted by a crazed drug addict named Slovo (Stormare) who is hit by a car soon after.
At the jail, the five meet up with an angry record producer (Mitchell) and the girlfriend he believes to be pregnant (Rollins) whom he plans to make a star, despite her protestations of not having any talent. Also along for the ride are two priests (Vince and Williams), one of whom has begun to doubt the wisdom of the Roman Catholic Church, and who are trailing to bail out a third priest (Messina) who was goaded into a fight by the proprietor of a strip club (Rockwell).
When the nine characters intersect, they discover that Timmy has a defective kidney and is slowly dying. However, he has just been paged, as there is a donor at the hospital: Slovo. The three caring characters immediately take Timmy to the hospital, with the others in pursuit. By the time they arrive, Slovo has partially recovered and has escaped to wander the streets, cheerfully ignoring his internal bleeding, and must be tracked down before both he and Timmy die.
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External links
- 13 Moons at the Internet Movie Database
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