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
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
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
