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This documentary follows the rise and fall of Troy Duffy, a Bostonian bartender who makes an astonishing, life-changing deal with Miramax films. Miramax is so impressed with Troy’s screenplay, The Boondock Saints, that it offers Troy the chance to direct the film with a huge budget and create its soundtrack using music performed by his band. Sitting on top of the world, Troy manages to commit blunder after blunder, mishandling negotiations and alienating his supporters. He eventually loses his deal with Miramax and becomes a pariah in Hollywood...
...bear was the lackluster social scene,” explains Great Falls, Montana resident Alexander Blewett ’03. “My brother and I tend to throw blowout parties back in Montana, and it’s safe to say that even our chintzy Montana boondock parties far outclass the half-ass shmooze-fest social gatherings Harvard students refer to as parties...
...think of Duluth as a small town, and by anyone's objective definition--well, anyone who doesn't live in New York City--it isn't. Subconsciously, I characterized Duluth as some kind of ultimate Midwestern boondock and it isn't. Duluth has an airport, regular plane service, modest but established symphony and ballet troupes as well as a fairly sizable university. There are many places much smaller and much further off the beaten track than Duluth...
Back Roads is the kind of movie that no one actually needs: another retelling of a kind of boondock fairy tale everyone has heard too often. On the other hand, it could turn out to be a movie that quite a few people will want to go to once the word gets around that Sally Field is at her most winning in the leading role...
...streets of New York. He carried a supply of solitude in and a supply of observations out. In his essay (Walking the Dead Diamond River) and travel books (Notes from the Century Before), he displayed a gift for elegy that made the city as remote as the boondock, and a knack for seeing the familiar for the first time. In Africa, it is the unfamiliar that moves him. After flying, bouncing and sliding around the continent's largest nation, Hoagland learns more than he needs to about Dinkas, Turkanas, mercenaries, missionaries, coups, assassinations, the green monkey disease, the protein...