Writers: Joe Nussbaum, Timothy Dowling, Daniel Shere
Composer: Deborah Lurie
Starring: Martin Hynes, Lisa Jakub, Jason Peck, Jeff Wiens, David Young IV, Timothy Dowling, John Rafter Lee, Ben Livingston, Jeff Statzer, Patrick Kerr
More info: IMDb
Tagline: Dozens of years ago, in a nearby galaxy...
Plot: 1967 film student George Lucas has writer's block trying to finish his "Space Wheat" script, until a beautiful fellow student with a familiar hairstyle teaches him that the best stories are in plain sight.
My rating: 7/10
Will I watch it again? Maybe.
"Well maybe you just weren't meant to write agricultural space tragedies." says the Princess Leia lookalike to the young George Lucas. This is a cute story about the influences that surrounded a filmmaker struggling with what would later become the biggest movie franchise in history. It's all for laughs and there are some clever gags and some too-obvious-and-silly-too-be-included-yet-they-were jokes. The filmmakers go for the obvious but the final gag before the credits start rolling is hilarious. I've seen this a couple of times now and I think I'm done. Maybe in 30 years I'll dust it off. It's only about 8 minutes and it's worth your time.
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