Hard-core fans of Kevin Smith (auteur of Clerks, Chasing Amy, and Dogma) will find Drawing Flies essential viewing. This Canadian film features many actors who would later appear in Smith's own directorial efforts, including Jason Lee, Renee Humphrey, Carmen Lee, and Jason Mewes (better know as Jay of Jay and Silent Bob). Lee plays Donner, the unofficial leader of a troupe of slackers who've just been kicked off of welfare. Donner convinces his friends that what they need to turn their lives around is a camping trip; but as they go deeper and deeper into the Canadian forests, Donner grows increasingly erratic and finally reveals that visions have told him to search for Bigfoot. Smith has a cameo in his Silent Bob persona. Non-fans can probably leave this one on the shelf. --Bret Fetzer
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Kevin Smith and Scott Mosier produced this Canadian-made comedy about five slackers who hit rock bottom when they are cut off by the Canadian welfare system. In order to avoid their rent-demanding landlord, they head for the wilderness for a week. Unfortunately, their leader, Donner (Jason Lee, VANILLA SKY) has lost his mind and is leading them on a hunt for the legendary Bigfoot. A handful of regulars from Smith's other films show up in this early View Askew productions.
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A good monster is a terrible thing to waste.
Jason Lee (Vanilla Sky) headlines an all-star cast, including Jason Mewes (Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back), Renee Humphrey (Mallrats) and Carmen Lee (Chasing Amy) in Drawing Flies, a hilarious comedy about insanity!
Five twenty-something slackers are living the good life. All play and no work suits these kids just as fine as they live comfortably off of their government welfare checks. But when their lives are turned upside down after the system cuts them off from their "easy money", it's out of the city and off to the country as they embark on a camping trip deep in the wilderness. As they head further into the woods, their fearless leader Donner (Lee) heads further from sanity, when what was thought to be a camping trip is actually a fatuous search for the legendary "Bigfoot" monster! Now they are lost, scared, at odds with one another as they soon realize that if the woods don't kill them, they just might do it to themselves.
Known to many as the "lost View Askew film," Drawing Flies is the brainchild of Producer, Writer, Directors Matthew Gissing and Malcolm Ingram (Tail Lights Fade) from Executive Producers Scott Mosier an Kevin Smith (Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back) and features cameo appearances from some of your favorite View Askew regulars.
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