Produced, Directed and Written by Ron Vigil
Manhattan Crack’r is a story about a Southern lady writer from Rabun Gap, Georgia who goes to the Big Apple seeking fame and fortune and along the way finds her heart instead.
Synopsis:
A young lady from Rabun Gap, Georgia struggles with the challenges of rooming with three Yankee men while pursuing her dream of being a successful writer in the nano-second, cut throat, anything goes world of Manhattan without compromising her Southern values.
Storyline:
Sue Bancroft, a modern day Dorothy from Rabun Gap Georgia, travels to the Emerald City -New York- to pursue her dream of writing a novel soon meets a cast of characters that only Manhattan can provide, a scarecrow like musician, a cowardly lion bar owner and a tin man who not only finds his heart, but kindles hers as well. Dorothy’s witch has nothing on the rich heartless heiress witch who baits Sue into writing a biography about her infamous husband, but at a price that is both tantalizing and ultimately dangerous. “Liars, phonies and wolves, oh my!” Sue frets. She soon learns that that the Big Apple isn’t Oz and there is no Wizard and that her Southern values will be sorely tested in the nanosecond, anything goes, gritty streets of Manhattan. Georgia who goes to the Big Apple seeking fame and fortune and along the way finds her heart instead.
Film Festival Awards:
Honorable Mention Laurel, TrindieFest, Trinidad, Colorado.
Honorable Mention Laurel, Southeastern Film Festival, Dahlonega, Georgia
Credited cast:
Dale Basescu – Josh Whittington
J. Michael Carroll – Marcello Russo
Lincoln de Oliveira – The Man In a Suit
Sarah Elizabeth Gowder – Mary
Adam Harris – Igor Fortasky
Will Irwin – Matt Canby
Michelle Keller – Jackie Crombe
Shayne Kohout – Sue Bancroft
Shaun Lynch – Freddie Hunter
Tim McIntosh – Jamie Canby
Mercury – Tony
Terrie Thompson – Ginny Brouchant
Blair Westbrook – Francis Hightower
Samantha Worthen – Belinda McClaren
Executive producer – Ron Vigil
Associate producer – Jim Walls
Associate producer – Stephen Sherwood
Music – Eddie Horst & Knox Summerour
Cinematography – Damon Wood
Film Editing – Michael Danishek