THE YOUNG UNKNOWNS
2000

Bay Area Premiere
February 23, 2001

Cinequest San Jose Film Festival

-->Written and Directed by.....Catherine Jelski [To Sleep With Anger, Dazed And Confused]
-->Charlie.....Devon Gummersall [Krakow on My So Called Life, Felicity, Independence Day]
-->Joe.....Eion Bailey [Dawson's Creek, Fight Club, Almost Famous]

Charlie's mom is an alcoholic living in Vermont with her latest husband. His father is a famous British director who phones in from time to time. Charlie is a struggling commercial director sponging off his father and living in his father's Hollywood Hills home. They take drugs by night and sleep and swim by day.

Gummersall is good but this film didn't grab me. It's another 'my parents messed me up by getting divorced' sort of story. The fact that it takes place in Hollywood makes it a bit more interesting than it could have been. None of the characters deserve any sympathy from the long suffering girlfriend, to the completely idiotic friend, to the new in town model. I was disgusted by all of them. The film wants to be cool and edgy, but it's just brutal and vacant.