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 Click on the above image for a hi-res version of the postcard. Click for a downloadable version of the press one-sheet. Chicago production house Harmony Joyride Productions is pleased to announce the release of its first major project, All This Murky Green, a deadpan comedy written by Justin Peters and directed by Tim Ferrin and Ryan Wolff. Shot on digital video in and around Chicago’s North Shore in the summer of 2004, All This Murky Green is a 40-minute comedic short involving Dennis (Greg Beam), a young man who finds work at Clifford Electronics, a local store run by the eccentric, sports metaphor-prone Joseph Clifford (Peter Ferry). After the first day on the job, Dennis realizes that both his boss and his ragtag crew of co-workers have little, if any, interest in selling electronics—instead, they’d rather meet every night after work to solve low-level crimes and eat low-quality pie. Dennis' life soon becomes a hectic whirl of finding lost keys, thwarting would-be robbers, and occasionally selling a VCR. After his co-workers destroy his girlfriend Liz's (Kate Mortimer) art opening (in a hilarious scene featuring former Chicago Bears wide receiver Tom Waddle), Dennis decides to leave the Clifford's Electronics team and return to hanging out with his slothful roommate, Roger (Matthew Doxtad). But hell hath no fury like a crime-solving-club scorned, and Dennis soon discovers that, while it’s easy to take the team out of Dennis, his co-workers refuse to take Dennis out of the team. About The Production The Harmony Joyride principals have been making movies together since they attended Lake Forest High School in the late ’90s, when they produced the award-winning sketch comedy television show The Ill Puppets. Since then, they have distinguished themselves in various fields—Tim Ferrin and Ryan Wolff working in production with WTTW-TV in Chicago and WHA-TV in Madison, Justin Peters working as a political journalist with The Washington Monthly in Washington, DC. When it premieres on June 5th at the historic Highland Park Theatre, All This Murky Green—featuring a cast of up-and-coming Chicago actors, a soundtrack with some of today’s hottest independent rock bands (The Wrens, Grand Buffet, Driftless Pony Club), and a fat man in a motorized cart—will prove that the Harmony Joyriders are people to watch. Currently engaged with projects for Chicago's Bloodshot Records and Iowa City's Trailer Records, Harmony Joyride will begin production on its next two independent projects, as-yet-untitled comedies about unsuccessful magicians and a recalcitrant vending machine, respectively, in the summer of 2005. |
