Harrison Smith and Genre Vets Get Spicy for Garlic and Gunpowder!
Death House and Camp Dread director/writer B. Harrison Smith has stepped out of the genre for his first swipe at comedy with the star-packed Garlic and Gunpowder. Entertainment Factory’s Rick Finkelstein and Steven Chase produced with Smith writing the script from an original story by Chase and Zach Sasim.
Two low-level wiseguys (Steven Chase, James Duvall), two hot babes (Lindsay Hartley, Lauren Compton), a porn star (Angel Marrero), and one-handed clown (Chris Coppola) prep a sting on the cigar-chomping, drug-dealing Ma and her caper to hijack a cash-filled convoy in the face of an impending apocalypse.
Judy Tenuta, Martin Kove, Dean McDermott, Vivica A. Fox, Michael Madsen, and Lainie Kazan round out an eclectic cast in a film that invokes Blazing Saddles‘ political incorrectness with the screwball style of Caddyshack and It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.
The film is set for a fall release and was recently accepted into the Burbank and CENFLO film festivals as official selections. Given its more comedic tone, don’t expect much coverage here on DC for this one, but we’d be remiss if we did not bring it to your attention!
For more info check out the Garlic and Gunpowder Facebook page.
Synopsis:
A comet is streaking toward earth, throwing the entire world, especially the 1% elite into a panic. The possible cataclysm prompts Big City’s wealthiest to move their fortunes — cash, art, gold, jewels — out of the city and into mines outside town. Sonny (Chase) and Archie (Duval) are childhood friends and low-level crime hoods employed by the literally larger than life drug lord, Ma (Rose). Their trusted contact, former mafia moll, Evvy Hancock (Tenuta) gets wind of the wealth transfer through a series of convoys. Ma wants those trucks! Two bumbling federal agents, Bean (McDermott) and Tracey (Kove) plan to launch a sting: “Operation Garlic and Gunpowder” with Ma their main target. Throw in a one-handed birthday party clown, two scantily clad women, a porn star wingman and a convoy full of loot; and it’s a madcap race for the prize, the zaniest assortment of characters colliding as the comet closes in...
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