Me and Will (1999)

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Commitment to your movie marathon is watching a cheap indie effort like Me and Will because Keanu Reeves appears as part of his band Dogstar on stage in the opening credits. The film is an attempt by schlock horror queens Sherrie Rose and Melissa Behr to write, produce and direct themselves in straight drama and... it's not half bad. On the acting side of thing, they do a good job and create sympathetic, albeit damaged, characters. The title is a bit of a pun, since "Will" (Behr) is more or less the motivation for the road trip, and the one trying to keep her rehab roommate from slipping into her cycle of self destruction before they complete their quest for the fabled motorcycle from Easy Rider. I like its indie spirit, but the direction is schizophrenic; they've got good ideas, but they don't all belong in the same movie. It starts off looking like softcore, but thankfully moves on from that, but it moves on again and again from what it was doing. They also manage to get some known faces into the film, from the look of it for about a half-day's work each (except McDreamy who's there in a before they were stars capacity). It doesn't always work and doesn't really know what to do with its ending, but I can appreciate that it's a personal vision and much better than I supposed from its initial look and credentials. 4 years 6 months ago