- 12/24/2010
- by Ryan Adams
- AwardsDaily.com
- Martin Hynes likes to steals things. Well, he likes to writes screenplays about people who steal things. A few years ago Hynes wrote a little screenplay called "Stealing Stanford," in which a mom and dad duo take up a life of crime in order to pay for their daughter's ivy league education. Sound familiar? In 2002 it was re-written into that memorable pic Stealing Harvard, featuring the effervescent Tom Green.But now Hynes has returned to the topic of theft with his latest feature, The Go-Getter, starring Lou Taylor Pucci (Thumbsucker), Zooey Deschanel and Jena Malone. The indie pic premiered at Sundance in 2007, then made its way to Cannes and is finally opening to limited release this weekend. In Hynes' admittedly semi-autobiographical tale (he once spent a year on the road), 19-year-old Mercer (Pucci) steals a station wagon from a car wash and leaves his hometown of Eugene, Oregon, on
- 6/7/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
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