Drawing Flies (I Love This Movie)

Kevin Smith and Scott Mosier produced this Canadian-made comedy about five slackers who hit rock bottom when they are cut off by the Canadian welfare system. In order to avoid their rent-demanding landlord, they head for the wilderness for a week. Unfortunately, their leader, Donner (Jason Lee, Vanilla Sky) has lost his mind and is leading them on a hunt for the legendary Bigfoot. A handful of regulars from Smith's other films show up in this early View Askew productions.

I had a special reason to want to see this film. While it is true I am a big fan of Jason Lee and will watch anything he's in, the real reason was Malcolm Ingram.

I am intrigued with this Canadian director because he grew up in my neck of the woods. The once Film Threat magazine writer, now director and Kevin Smith cohort, used to rent movies from the video store I worked at and go to the high school that was bitter sports rivals of the one that I went to. I think it's just cool that a local boy made good in the film business.

Drawing Flies, which is a reference to the Soundgarden song, was produced by Kevin Smith's (Clerks, Chasing Amy) company, View Askew. Jason Lee stars as Donner in a simple story about a group of going nowhere twenty-somethings in Vancouver, who on Donner's sudden urgings go out into the wilderness to be one with nature. Only Donner's real agenda is to search for the infamous Bigfoot. Also appearing are Jason Mewes (Jay from all of Kevin Smith's films,) Carmen Lee (Chasing Amy and Jason Lee's wife off-camera) and Rene Humphrey (Mallrats)

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