While it might have made for a mildly diverting stage thriller -- the hugely successful Deathtrap, for instance, was built on similarly absurd contrivances -- the endlessly talky 3 Holes and a Smoking Gun founders onscreen.
Overview
An ex-Hollywood screenwriter now teaching an evening class in New York finds himself in a battle of wits with a devious screenwriter student.
Director and cast
- Zuher Khan as Jack Ariamehr
- James Wilder as Bobby Blue Day
- Joaquim de Almeida as Joey the Junkman
- Rudolf Martin as Junkie
- Matt Cable as Brad Bradley
- Richard Edson as Sam Dunkim
- Howard McNair as Clive Mimsby
- Rebecca Mae Palmer as Sailor Stewart
- Cara Silverman as Destry Overland
- Polaris Banks as Sign Spinner
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Top critics, in their words
"3 Holes and a Smoking Gun" proves that there's a chasm-wide difference between talking about what constitutes - and actually being - great writing.
Director Hilarion Banks dutifully captures all of it in a series of nicely shot extended takes, which would have been fine if the cast had been able to interact in some sort of uniform tone.





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