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Pieces of April, a low-budget family dramedy starring Katie Holmes of “Dawson’s Creek,” imagines the family life of that high school loner who was always up to no good in chemistry class. But Peter Hedges’ directorial debut, baptized in Hedge’s golden screenwriting touch (already used to the benefit of What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? and About a Boy), humanizes this outcast by burrowing into the life of the character brushed past in high school hallways, endowing her with a family and catching...
...small child, unable to distinguish between reality and fantasy, might have taken the preceding months of squabbling for a long-format, low-budget episode of “Rawhide.” That small child would be right...
...sleeper hit this summer, 28 Days Later is a low-budget British horror import that produces genuine scares. Directed by Trainspotting’s Danny Boyle, the film opens with England devastated by the “rage” virus—everyone seems to be dead, except for Jim (Cillian Murphy), who must survive zombie attacks and find the few survivors that are left. The story gets a bit too over-the-top by the end, when it veers into Heart of Darkness territory, but overall it provides entertaining thrills and chills. The music and cinematography are great...
...just six people with a couple of digital-video cameras," says producer Wouter Rengelink. Heineken provided the stars' salaries and 16 crates of beer - "R and D investment," says a spokeswoman - but had no editorial control and only a credit at the end of each episode. An entire low-budget series can be created for $500,000, less than it can cost to produce a top-quality TV ad. This is something Heinz realized when it made Dinner Doctors on Britain's Channel 5. The campaign built around the cooking show, including a website and supermarket promotions, cost about...
...land of the low-budget parable, with big ideas and crude special effects. But the film is well acted (especially by Brendan Gleeson as a friendly, flinty dad). And Boyle's ingenuity with the camera gives this fraught journey plenty of menace and pizazz. The movie's craft makes the dread of a killer virus contagious: viewers may feel they have come down with a case of secondhand SARS or sympathetic monkeypox...