![]() ![]() "We got to talking and she introduced herself, and I thought: Bai Ling, weren't you in 'The Crow'?" He asked if she would be interested in reading the script for his movie, and she agreed. He came across actress Bai Ling while in an elevator in New York one day. With a location to film secured, Wollett's next mission was a cast and crew. Wollett wanted a location that would look dilapidated and fit the scene. "I've known the owner of a local nursing facility since childhood, and he was doing renovations on one of the floors, so I convinced him to let me use that floor for filming." In August of 2020, Wollett and his team started filming in parts of Maryland, including Aberdeen and Pikesville. He went through a deep dive of editing for me, and then we started production." "I gave it to a friend of mine who was a professional script writer, Ray Biddle. He has also written and published dozens of books, and after coming up with the idea for the film, he began writing a script and finished it in just three weeks. "The earliest movie I remember seeing was 'Alien,' with Sigourney Weaver," he said. Wollett's interest in thriller films and acting started at a young age. Jack, a narcissistic alcoholic, becomes convinced that the nurse is trying to kill him and enlists help from his gaming friends. "Jack Be Nimble" is a horror comedy and tells the story of a group of old gamers living together in an assisted living facility. The amount of loss Wollett suffered in a short period of time sent him into a deep depression, and for a period of time, he turned to drugs and alcohol.īut several weeks later, everything changed. Originally from Michigan, Wollett and his wife moved to York County in 1997, starting out in Glen Rock and later moving to Stewartstown. I lost my best friend, I lost my dog and I lost my business, all in a matter of weeks." The very next day, Wollett was informed by the hospital that his wife had suffered hundreds of blood clots and was brain dead. Several days after his wife checked into the hospital, their business, a health food store the couple owned and operated in Baltimore for over 15 years, burned down. ![]() "She got to a point where she was nonresponsive, so we went to the hospital and by the end of the day she was in a coma." It was during the early stages of COVID, so Wollet and his wife believed it may have been the flu. Three weeks later, his wife Leslie became ill. Three years ago, Steve Wollett lost everything.ĭuring Christmas of 2019, his beloved dog of 13 years, Zeus, passed from old age at their home in Stewartstown. Maxwell compensates somewhat with an occasionally ambitious visual style in the early scenes – a toy clown placed on young Jack’s cot with its lips sewn up, the dishevelled Gough daughters moving in unison like some ominous chorus of Greek harpies – but eventually he and the film get lost amid the plot incomprehensibilities.Watch Video: After a string of tragedies, Steve Wollett made a film A scene where Bruno Lawrence introduces Sarah Smuts-Kennedy to marigolds under the pillow as a handy source of psychic amplification verges on the laughable. The scene where Alexis Arquette produces his high-school metal-work project, a candle-operated dynamo lantern that hypnotises his foster family and drives them to humiliating suicides, seems to have strayed in from a totally different film altogether – it is like something out of a Gothic farce. Garth Maxwell never seems to have any idea where the film is meant to be going from one moment to the next – at first, it appears to be a straight drama about a psychic link between separated children then develops a stew of other ideas involving telepathic powers and Sarah Smuts-Kennedy with no apparent explanation being able to pick up the voices of the dead. ![]() As a film, it is so incomprehensible in its random plotting, frequent shifts of tone and jumbled melting pots of incongruous genre elements as to be downright weird. Jack Be Nimble gained modest genre acclaim when it came out but leaves much to be desired. Everything he has done since then alas has been work in New Zealand television. Maxwell was a promising young talent who debuted with the Cannes Award-winning gay love short Beyond Gravity (1989) and went onto the modestly acclaimed polysexual love story When Love Comes (1998). Jack Be Nimble was the feature-length debut of New Zealander Garth Maxwell. ![]()
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