The Missing Screenwriter

The Missing Screenwriter

🎞️ Movie 72 min --
โ˜… 8.9 /10 2012

Robert Hurley, 27, a Culver City native and one time computer engineer, has not been heard from since late February, after many attempts to contact him via phone calls, e-mails, and visits to his home in Los Angeles. The latest film based on his screenplay, 'Notes from the New World', tells a modern day version of Russian novelist F.M. Dostoevsky's 'Notes from the Underground', complete with Russian mafia gangsters and a dangerous call girl, and evidence suggests Hurley's disappearance is due to real life characters who inspired the script. Abandoning his job at Teletech Technology, Hurley hooked up with Vitaly Sumin, a fellow screenwriter from New Playwrights Foundation after a chance meeting and Hurley went back to his first love: writing. Vitaly, a Russian native and creator of the film company VM Productions, took a shine to Hurley and looked over a very rough draft of the script for ' 'Notes from the New World'. They visited Sumin's hometown of St. Petersburg to get a better feel for the language, people and culture, and Hurley's rough draft took shape with Sumin finishing the script. In Hurley's quest for authenticity for the character in the story, he met a call girl - which the main character in 'Notes' does as well - via a contact to an agency suggested by Sumin. Apparently, however, Hurley became a little too smitten with the girl - Natalya - and became entangled in her dealings with members of the Russian mafia.

Cast

Devorah Lynne Dishington
Devorah Lynne Dishington
Devorah
Ellie Araiza
Ellie Araiza
Ellie
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Vitaly Sumin
Vitaly
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Brett Mack
Brett
Julia Emelin
Julia Emelin
Julia
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Nick Tereschenko
Nick
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Natasha Blasick
Natasha
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Doug Dane
Doug
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Rex Hoss
Rex
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Sylvia Lee Mann
Composer
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Jon Edwards
Cinematographer
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Matt Leikam
Cinematographer