A Collection of Chemicals

2009
28m

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8.2/10

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On Fourth of July weekend, the long-kidnapped daughter returns to her father, a terminally bored widower.

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Terminally bored recent widower Si Foster, an eccentric puzzle of a man (and self-proclaimed eggplant connoisseur) is terribly lonely. His daughter Sonya was kidnapped two years prior and, f... Read allTerminally bored recent widower Si Foster, an eccentric puzzle of a man (and self-proclaimed eggplant connoisseur) is terribly lonely. His daughter Sonya was kidnapped two years prior and, for reasons unknown to her, the ransom somehow wound up never being paid. As the Fourth of ... Read allTerminally bored recent widower Si Foster, an eccentric puzzle of a man (and self-proclaimed eggplant connoisseur) is terribly lonely. His daughter Sonya was kidnapped two years prior and, for reasons unknown to her, the ransom somehow wound up never being paid. As the Fourth of July approaches and Si finds that he has virtually no one with whom to celebrate the holid... Read all

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The "eggplant subplot" was originally not written in the screenplay at all. Rather, it was worked into the film while actually shooting. Director Daniel Kremer remembered someone saying "What do you feed your eggplant?" in a dream he had from which he had awakened laughing. In directing the opening scene, director Daniel Kremer told actor William Cully Allen to, somehow and in some way, work the absurdist line into the dialogue and to see where it took him in the scene. Allen's delivery of the line allowed a facet of his character (his fixation with eggplants) to be played out and explored in the movie as a comical quirk of the character.