Release Date: 2010
Not Yet Rated|1 hr 17 min
Plot Summary
A humorless loner performs at a comedy club to impress a drifter.
Cast: Kentucker Audley, Eleonore Hendricks, Dane Stevens, Allison Baar, Hayward Buchanan, Dustin Guy Defa, Scott Parisi, Annette Wright
Director: Dustin Defa
Genres: Drama
If Defa's aesthetics are mundane, his leads' performances are not, especially in the case of Audley, whose darting eyes and hushed, stuttering speech express confused longing with transfixing train-wreck magnetism. show more
Mr. Defa and his cinematographer, Mike Gioulakis, are united in their disdain for information over mood: as the camera skitters spastically around its troubled schlub, the film becomes a muddy, minimalist moan of desperation. show more
In Bad Fever, Dustin Guy Defa's sad-sack indie drama about loneliness and urban ennui, a stand-up routine becomes an outlet for personal pain, the stage a place to unload baggage. show more
