BUG

From the creators of CRAZY/BEAUTIFUL
and THE TUXEDO


Winner of the Audience Choice Award-
2002 Santa Barbara Film Festival

Winner Best Feature - New Orleans Film Festival


Directors: Phil Hay & Matt Manfredi
Writer: Matt Manfredi
Producers: Lysa Hayland, Kate Margolis,
Brian Gerber
Cast: Brian Cox, Jamie Kennedy, Ed Begley, Jr., Sarah Paulson
Genre: Comedy
Year: 2002

In the hip, urban Los Angeles neighborhood of Silverlake, strangers with apparently nothing in common interact with humor, love, rage, fear and generosity. Beginning with the death of a bug, each of these strangers' actions starts a wild chain of events, which includes lovers quarrels, hit-and-run accidents, a bout of food poisoning, and the arrest of an innocent man, all leading to one surprising conclusion. In this six-degrees-of-separation story, all actions have consequences and the results prove to be happily unexpected.

 

The Filmmakers

Matt Manfredi and Phil Hay


Hay and Manfredi wrote CRAZY/BEAUTIFUL, the 2001 Touchstone release starring Kirsten Dunst, as well as Dreamworks SKG’s THE TUXEDO starring Jackie Chan, slated for a summer 2002 release. Their other projects include GATEWAY TO THE GODS with TUXEDO producer John Williams and Nickelodeon, and a live-action adaptation of “Aeon Flux” for MTV and Valhalla Motion Pictures.



Upcoming Cast Projects

Brian Cox will be featured in the Dreamworks film THE RING and in X-MEN 2. Sarah Paulson is starring in DOWN WITH LOVE with Renee Zellweger and Ewan McGregor

 

Festivals

Winner of the Audience Choice Award-Santa Barbara Film Festival
Winner Best Feature-New Orleans Film Festival
Maui Film Festival
Florida Film Festival
Silverlake Film Festival
Mill Valley Film Festival
Filmfestival Mannheim Heidelberg
International Film Festival of Wales
Karlovy Vary Festival (Czech Republic)

In 2003:

Winner Best Screenplay-Fantasporto Film Festival (Portugal)
Winner Best Film (Film Critic's Selection)-Mar del Plata Film Festival (Argentina)
Winner Best Feature Film and Best Cinematography-Ashland Film Festival (Oregon)
Victoria Independent Film And Video Festival (Canada)
Sonoma Film Festival
Philadelphia Film Festival
Flanders Film Festival (Belgium)
Istanbul Film Festival