In Search of a Midnight Kiss Page #6

Synopsis: On New Year's Eve, Wilson, a twenty-nine-year old guy has just had the worst year of his life. He emigrated to Los Angeles, has no date, no concrete plans and every intention of locking the doors and forgetting the last year ever happened. That is until his best friend, Jacob, browbeats him into posting a personal ad on Craig's List. When Vivian, a strong-willed woman hell bent on being with the right guy at the stroke of midnight responds, a chaotic, sometimes hilarious, sometimes touching journey through the black and white streets of L.A. begins. In the waning hours of the year, emotional vulnerability and bitterly honest humor seem to be waiting around every corner.
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Director(s): Alex Holdridge
Production: IFC First Take
  4 wins.
 
IMDB:
7.3
Metacritic:
64
Rotten Tomatoes:
86%
Year:
2007
90 min
Website
214 Views


- OK,

He asked them to kind of be creative

with the postcard,

use it almost like a canvas or something,

(Wilson) Mm-hm,

(Vivian) Well, within a year, the guy had

collected over 10,000 confessions,

and all were just completely amazing,

- What kind of confessions?

- All kinds, I mean, some totally hilarious,

Some really sad,

Like, there was this one that said:

"I wish my mom loved me for who I was

and not who I hadn't become,"

- God, that's horrible,

- I know,

And there was this really f***ed-up one,

This babysitter said

that she had come across

some of the owners' condoms

and poked holes in them to ensure

that she had work for years to come,

Isn't that crazy?

God, that's horrible,

I gotta get a copy of this book,

If I ever see you again, can I borrow it?

If I ever see you again,

Yeah, sure,

So these people

just wrote these things in themselves?

I mean, no catch or nothing?

Yeah,

I mean, I think just saying whatever

to somebody

and not have them totally freak out

or completely write you off

as a human being is...

it's comforting,

- (Wilson) You wanna go up there?

- Sure,

Look at those people kissing,

(Wilson) God, I love it down here,

Look - "Metropolitan Water District,"

- "Established in 1917,"

- (Vivian) Very good, very good,

(Wilson) Wells Fargo,

That's where I do all my banking,

So, why don't you tell me a confession

that you've never told anyone before?

Um, I don't know,

I don't think that's a good idea,

Come on, You said how much you liked

that art project, how healing it was,

and, you know, how it made everybody

feel good after they confessed,

Why don't you just, you know...

throw out a confession for me?

I don't know, I don't want you to judge me,

Not that I have anything to hide,

I won't judge you,

OK, if you do it, I'll do it,

OK, I'll do it on one condition,

OK,

You have to kiss me,

- What do I get out of it?

- A chance to kiss me,

- I think I'll pass,

- Then I'm not confessing anything,

OK, fine,

And it has to be a real kiss,

like an adult kiss, like with tongue,

Deal,

- Deal,

- Deal,

OK, This is really embarrassing,

Um...

I don't know if this is a good idea,

Come on, tell me,

All right,

This morning, I was in my apartment,

and I was really Ionely

and I was horny, and...

I don't know,

This isn't a good idea,

- What is it? Just tell me,

- All right,

I Photoshopped a picture of my friend's

girlfriend, and I was using it to masturbate,

- What?

- (laughs)

I know,

It's totally something I would never do,

I mean, it was totally humiliating, too,

'cause they walked in on me,

- I cannot believe you did that,

- Me neither, I feel gross,

- That is so sick,

- I know,

It's something I would never confess,

- You know what? You shouldn't have,

- Well, now you have to kiss me,

I'm not kissing you!

Hey, Hey!

- Where are you going?

- I wanna go home,

- Why? 'Cause I was masturbating?

- Yeah, well, I'm a little disturbed,

Well, grow up,

'cause everybody masturbates,

Not to their friend's girlfriend's photo!

Yeah, well, it has to be real,

or I can't get off,

Oh, my God, You are sick,

Yeah, well, you know, who isn't!

I bet your confession is ten times worse,

- You're wrong,

- What do you masturbate to?

- That is none of your business!

- But you do masturbate,

You know what? This date is over,

I told you, at sunset, It is so over!

Don't you think you're overreacting? I don't

understand what you're so mad about,

Listen, I was just being brutally honest

with you, OK?

I thought that's what you wanted,

Let me ask you something,

Do you have condoms on you right now?

- N-No!

- You are such a liar!

- You're a liar!

- Let me search you,

No way! You didn't hold up

your end of the bargain,

OK,

You're right, I'm sorry,

- Oh, my God, You are such a liar,

- Oh, dammit, Listen, I can explain!

You brought five condoms? What did you

think? We were gonna f*** all night?

No, listen, These aren't mine,

My... Dammit!

My buddy Jacob told me to take 'em,

and he doesn't know anything,

You thought we were gonna have sex

on date number one,

No! I didn't, Can I just explain? Will you

just stop for two seconds and let me talk?

Stop!

I've never had a one-night stand in my life,

This is my first date in six years!

I brought these

so you didn't have to feel like a slut,

- What?!

- No! I mean...

Just listen, I brought 'em so that,

if the moment presented itself,

I wouldn't have to run out and get some,

You don't get offended that there's toilet

paper when you have to take a sh*t,

What the f*** are you talking about?!

You're just overreacting!

Listen,

Would you please stop?

Come on, You'd think it'd be

more insensitive if I didn't bring 'em,

as if I don't care that you get a disease

or, you know, get pregnant,

F*** you and all men like you,

(# "Lines" by Will Sheff)

I can't f***ing believe you, b*tch,

Vivian,

Please, will you...

Look, I'm sorry,

All right? Just don't go home,

Will you please just stop?

Listen, I spent the last three months

in my room, being depressed,

and it's New Year's Eve,

and I just... I don't wanna be left alone,

So just stick around with me till midnight,

You can go home at midnight,

you can do whatever you want,

Every year, on New Year's Eve, I'm gonna

think I just sent this girl home in tears,

I'm gonna wonder what happened to you,

Just... let me take you out to dinner,

I wanna do something nice for you,

- You don't have to do that,

- Honestly, let me take you out,

I have 100 dollars in my bank account,

I'm gonna pulse it out,

I'm gonna take you wherever you

wanna go, Any restaurant in this town,

I mean, as long as it's not more than

Come on,

It would make me feel like a man,

Well, there is this Italian restaurant

I've always wanted to go to,

- I love Italian,

- You do?

- I love it,

- OK,

You want to go there?

Come on,

This is perfect,

My roommate dropped off his car for me

on Hollywood and Cahuenga,

(# "The Queen of England"

by The Mendoza Line)

(Wilson) Look, I'm gonna show you,

Here,

(tapping buttons)

Please, please, please,

See, I'll show you, Look,

Just to show you that I'm not lying,

- You don't have to do this,

- Look, $8,

- You don't have to do this,

- No, I want to do this,

I just... wanted to show you,

You sure it's no more than $100, right?

Thank you,

(# "The Queen of England"

by The Mendoza Line continues)

Buonasera. Happy New Year,

- Benvenuti. Welcome to Oliva,

- Thank you,

- Hi, ciao, bella.

- Hi, Oh, thank you,

Table for two?

Wonderful, This way,

You know, my best friend's

proposing tonight,

I don't know if you're into it,

we could go down there,

- Where is it?

- Downtown in the warehouse district,

He's a DJ, so it's like a house-music thing,

Is he proposing to the girl

that you jacked off to this morning?

Yes, as a matter of fact, he is,

But it's OK, because she wasn't offended,

She actually said it was flattering,

- That it was flattering?

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Alex Holdridge

Alex Holdridge is an American writer/director currently based in Berlin, Germany.CURRENT PRODUCTIONS (2015) Meet Me in Montenegro, is a cynical romance in which he co-wrote and co-directed with the Norwegian filmmaker Linnea Saasen. They filmed in several countries (U.S., Germany, Montenegro, England, Macedonia) in stages between 2011 and 2015. It made its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2014 where it was acquired by The Orchard for release in north America in summer of 2015. The film was fully completed in March 2015 and has been making its European festival premiers in 2015 at Edinburgh International Film Festival, Munich Film Festival, Krakow's Off Camera International Festival of Independent Cinema, Tromsø International Film Festival, Dublin International Film Festival,. The U.S. and Canadian release in cinemas and VOD for the summer. The film Alex Holdridge and Linnea Saasen as well as Rupert Friend, Jennifer Ulrich. The film is fun globe-trotting romance inspired by Holdridge and Saasens real life exeprience. Frank and Cindy is a screenplay he co-wrote with GJ Echternkamp that is also in post-production and will premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival in 2015. It was directed by Echternkamp and stars Rene Russo, Oliver Platt, Johnny Simmons, Jane Levy and Marc Maron. It is a fictional adaptation of the documentary 'Frank and Cindy, about the 80s pop band OXO and its base player, Frank and his life partner Cindys life, 30 years later. HISTORY Late 90's Austin Holdridge began making movies in the early 2000s in Austin, Texas. The film culture and life in Austin shaped his moviemaking. His first full length film, Wrong Numbers, was a low-budget comedy about two 18-year-old guys who set out to forget their girlfriend troubles and buy a six pack on the last night of school. The movie stars Scoot McNairy, Matt Bearden, Matt Pulliam, Kirsten Cunnington and David Pratt. It was co-written by Sam Merrick. It's a comedy of misadventures about these two best friends on a night from hell as they are stuck roaming Austin Texas with a car full of people they don't want to be with. The movie won the Audience Award at the Austin Film Festival in 2001 and Alex was hired to do a studio remake of the film. This remake never came to fruition, however. In 2003 Alex wrote and directed, Sexless. It won both the jury and audience awards at the 2003 South by Southwest Film Festival. It is a sex comedy about twenty-something couples' last month in Austin, Texas. Afeterwards, Alex moved to Los Angeles to pursue the studio remake of Wrong Numbers that never came to fruition. In 2008 Holdridge wrote, directed and produced In Search of a Midnight Kiss, a romantic comedy which was listed by the National Board of Review as one of the Top 10 Independent Films of 2008. Holdridge won the 2008 Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award for work on the film. The film starred Scoot McNairy and Sara Simmonds, and was the third collaboration with McNairy and the second with Simmonds. The film was shot by Austin cinematographer, Robert Murphy, who also worked on Wrong Numbers and went on to shoot Alexs next film, Meet Me in Montenegro. more…

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