Capers

Running time: 86 mins

Three devious schemes; three badly executed heists; and a pawnshop with one surprising treasure.

Making up director Julian M. Kheel?s hilarious debut feature are spot-on comedic performance from such talents as Danny Masterson (That 70s Show), Blanchard Ryan (Open Water), Leon (Get Rich or Die Tryin?) and Dominique Swain (Lolita).

When a triad of inept criminal teams simultaneously plan to execute the same heist, they have to make it past the menacing old pawnshop owner, who they believe is stashing a fortune in plain sight. The ?Amateurs? fumble their way through the pawnshop airshaft, as the ?Moolies? shop for dynamite with their boom box blasting and du-rags flossing. Meanwhile, the Slovo-Afghan duo of ?Sputniks? exploits their exotic sexuality to gain entry past the grandson with a low I.Q.

Through swindling mishaps, they all end up in a deadlock. Can the Sputniks, the Moolies, and the Amateurs agree to split the gold? Or will these clumsy crooks end up in battle?


Preceded by: The Gold Lunch; 12min; Director: Joanna Kerns
The tale of a man who imagines that having lunch with his ex-wife is an Olympic event. Based on the short story by Ron Carlson, the film depicts lunching as a "full blown contact sport, loaded with punishing ambiguity and emotional twists and turns that dwarf the Grand Slalom."


This film is sponsored by Marin French Cheese.