"nate dogg" directed by thomas farone (it's a movie!!)

[Mista Rosa]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0424303/

i'm curious cause nobody has ever talked about it, so if anyone knows more..


here's a review of the movie, projected during the 03 raindance festivale:

NATE DOGG

THURSDAY 6 NOVEMBER AT MIDDAY UGC HAYMARKET SCREEN 2

FRIDAY 31st OCTOBER 5:10 UGC HAYMARKET


Country USA Running Time 74 mins Format Super 16 Director/Screenplay/DoP/Editor Thomas Farone Producer Shannon McCarthy Cast Nathan Hale, David Bunce, Michalina Almindo Print Source Damage Films E shannon@damagefilms.com

Debut filmmaker Thomas Farone bursts onto the film scene with a dazzling feature, not from the usual film centres of NYC or LA, but from a trailer park in the Catskill Mountains. Mixing fact and fiction, Farone has woven the tale of Nate Dogg, a sixteen-year-old high school dropout who suffers from acute ADHD. The film is based on the true-life story of Nathan Hale, who plays himself and delivers a performance that will be the envy of many trained actors. Abandoned by his parents, Nate Dogg (Hale) lives in a world of poverty and depravity that is stunningly captured by the two-man crew of Farone and producer/soundperson/art director, McCarthy.

Shot helter-skelter over four months last year, the film portrays Nate Dogg's struggle to grasp the reality of his predicament and keep on the straight and narrow while supporting his girlfriend. Dogg's good nature and na vet» are preyed on by his neighbour, Ray, played by journeyman actor David Bunce, who drags Dogg into a series of small time drug deals. The story ends up with bodies strewn around the trailer park, reminiscent of the closing scenes of Hamlet.

Farone's visual storytelling style, camerawork and editing point to a major new talent, while his sensitive portrayal of Nate Dogg speaks of a filmmaker willing and able to delve deep below the surface. EG

Thomas Farone taught himself how to write, direct and edit for this debut feature using the money that would have paid for film school. He describes himself as a student of documentary and narrative films.
   
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[V2DHeart]

I heard about a Nate Dogg documentary a couple of years back, which never came out. I guess this is what it has formed into? An actual movie? Might be good!

[Trip Dee]

http://messages.movies.yahoo.com/Movies/Films/threadview?m=tm&bn=12172484-hv1808744088f0&tid=1&mid=1&frt=2

looks like someone was preety desperate 

and ain't  Nate Dogg's first name Nathaniel?

[Mista Rosa]

http://messages.movies.yahoo.com/Movies/Films/threadview?m=tm&bn=12172484-hv1808744088f0&tid=1&mid=1&frt=2

looks like someone was preety desperate 

and ain't  Nate Dogg's first name Nathaniel?

wtf this is weird! the guy on myspace is a white boy named nathan hale.. damn i'd like to see this movie to know if the real nate dogg is acting in there!

[es-jay]

i don't think that this film is about the real Nate Dogg...

the white guy from myspace seems to have adopted the name after seeing his real name was similar to that of Nate Doggs.

Well-intentioned, verite-style docudrama stumbles on its own drug-movie cliches, although "Nate Dogg's" cinematic excesses-on-a-shoestring do suggest what one-man band Thomas Farone could do with material worth the kitchen-sink treatment. Potential distribs might run into legal problems due to pic and lead character's moniker being borrowed from a popular rapper.

Pic's main hook is that a non-actor patriotically named Nathan Hale plays a protag also called Nathan Hale, with a story based loosely on events in the real 20-year-old's life. Hale lost his mother to AIDS at an early age, and suffered from severe Attention Deficit Disorder until he found the right drugs. Farone's saga has him bumping into the wrong drugs, however, with plot turns involving white-supremacist dealers, gold-toothed black suppliers, and gals who live in trailers with their abusive daddies. Decision to present overcooked material as faux docu, with mix of film stocks and emphasis on in-your-face shaky-cam visuals, leads to more risible moments than affecting ones. And ADD angle is completely lost in the meller shuffle. Pro sound, music, and FX work, plus likable presence of tattooed lead, save project from the dumpster.