Indie film producer buys a theater in Fiji...spends a year there with his family and provides free movies to the natives. Sounds like a dream gig...adventures in paradise.
The problems were many. John Pierson stepped all over the sensibilities of the local forces who undermined him at every step. His stuff was stolen over and over. His staff showed up when they chose to. But the biggest problem for me with this film was his two children...a boy 8 and a girl 16...who were insolent, rude, foul-mouthed brats...which both parents seemed unable to see, understand or deal with.
This couple presented themselves on this film as self-absorbed fools...arrogant jackasses who had no idea why things went so bad. They saw themselves as benevolent secular saints and were baffled and angry when people loathed them. A word folks...humility...try it.
I lasted an hour and a half...testimony to my devotion to this medium.
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