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THE CAST
Deputy Larry Stalder……………………..……………………....LARRY THE CABLE GUY
Madeleine Dimkowski…………………………………………………...IVANA MILICEVIC
Ricardo Bodi………………………….……………………………….........YAPHET KOTTO
Arthur Grimsley………………………………………………………….PETER STORMARE
Wilford Duvall…………………………………………………………..........ERIC ROBERTS
Dr. Rondog “Doc” Savage………………………………………………….JOE MANTEGNA
Connie…………………………………………………………………..JENNY MCCARTHY
THE FILMMAKERS
Directed by…………………………………………………...CHARLES ROBERT CARNER
Screenplay by………………………………………………...CHARLES ROBERT CARNER
Story by……………………………ALAN BLOMQUIST & CHARLES ROBERT CARNER
Producers …………….……………………………………….........................J.P. WILLIAMS
…………………………………………………………………………...ALAN BLOMQUIST
Executive Producers……………………………………………...............TOM ORTENBERG
……………………………………………………………………………...THOMAS BUSCH
Director of Photography…………...........................................................MICHAEL GOI, ASC
Production Designer……………………………………………………CABOT MCMULLEN
Edited by…………………………………………………………………………..MARC LEIF
Music Composed by………………………………………………………...ERIC ALLAMAN
Associate Producer……………………………………………………MAGGIE HOULEHAN
……………………………………………………………………………JENNIFER NOVAK
Costume Designer……………………………………………………...SUSAN KAUFMANN
Casting by………………………………………………………...JUNIE LOWRY JOHNSON
…………………………………………………………………………...LIBBY GOLDSTEIN
……………………………………………………………………..........DEBORAH GEORGE
………………………………………………………………….SHARON KING (CHICAGO)
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SYNOPSIS
Larry the Cable Guy returns for another comic misadventure as a small town sheriff who
unwittingly gets involved in a high profile FBI case in Lionsgate®’s new comedy, WITLESS
PROTECTION. During a routine day spent patrolling his small town, Larry witnesses a
beautiful, high-class woman, Madeleine, being held against her will by four mysterious,
black-suited men. Recognizing the opportunity to save the day, Larry “kidnaps” her, only to
learn that Madeleine is actually a key witness in a high-stakes Chicago crime case and her
captors are FBI agents assigned to protect her. Madeleine is furious. But Larry, who rightly
suspects the agents are crooked and Madeleine is in danger, forces her on a harebrained trip
to Chicago to solve the case himself. Together, the hilariously mismatched duo must grapple
with angry FBI agents, quack doctors and Chicago high society in his funniest, most
unpredictable adventure yet.
WITLESS PROTECTION is directed by Charles Robert Carner; Screenplay by Charles
Robert Carner; Story by Alan Blomquist & Charles Robert Carner; and stars Larry the Cable
Guy, Ivana Milicevic, Yaphet Kotto, Peter Stormare, Eric Roberts, Joe Mantegna and Jenny
McCarthy.
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ABOUT THE PRODUCTION
Following years of stand-up, multiple television specials and two successful feature
films, Larry the Cable continues his hilarious blundering in Lionsgate®’s WITLESS
PROTECTION, this time becoming embroiled with the FBI and a high-profile Chicago
criminal case. But while the adventure is all new, fans can take comfort in knowing that Larry
is still the same crude-but-charming blue collar guy prone to comic disasters. “I’m basically
doin’ an extension of me, mixed in with everybody I’ve ever grown up with in my life,” says
Larry of his on-screen persona. “I grew up in a town of twelve hundred and it was just wheat
and corn and cows. And pigs. I hung out at the cattle barn ever since I was a little kid. My
influences were always all these old farmers that told these stories. I just kinda mixed it all
together and I got this.”
After the success of the Lionsgate® features LARRY THE CABLE GUY: HEALTH
INSPECTOR and DELTA FARCE, Larry and producers JP Williams and Alan Blomquist
were eager to start work on a follow-up project. While Blomquist hadn’t quite landed on a
story, he was inspired by a title. “We were trying to come up with different fish-out-of-water
scenarios,” he recalls, “and I came up with the title WITLESS PROTECTION, which I
thought was funny. Then I thought, ‘Okay, what do we do with it?’”
Blomquist turned to Charles Carner, the seasoned writer/director of several television
films (RED WATER, CHRISTMAS RUSH and LOUIS L’AMOUR’S ‘CROSSFIRE
TRAIL’), who liked the idea and ran with it. “I started developing this storyline of Larry as a
small town Deputy Sheriff who sees what he thinks is a kidnapping, but actually it’s someone
in witness protection,” explains Carner. “In his attempt to do good, Larry creates havoc,
which is what he always does.”
Carner cites the classic Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert film, IT HAPPENED ONE
NIGHT, and the Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin buddy comedy, MIDNIGHT RUN, as
the chief inspirations for WITLESS PROTECTION. “That was sort of our starting point in
terms of the idea of a road picture that blends adventure, romance, and humor,” he explains.
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While the filmmakers were mindful to meet the expectations of fans, Blomquist saw
WITLESS PROTECTION as an opportunity to broaden Larry’s on-screen persona. “We
wanted to make Larry bigger than the one-note, ‘Here’s Larry, he makes a fart joke, he
leaves’ kind of character,” he says. “That’s the biggest difference with this script from some
of the earlier projects we’ve done. We really wanted to place him in situations where other
parts of his personality could come forward.”
Larry notes that his character struggles with bigger issues in WITLESS
PROTECTION. While previously he was satisfied with small town life, Larry now has an
ambition: to graduate from deputy sheriff to bona fide FBI agent and leave his backwater
town. “Anybody that’s grown up in a small town can’t wait to get the hell out of there,”
explains Larry. “Then when they get married and have kids, they can’t wait to get their ass
back to a small town, ‘cause they like how they grew up. That’s the same with me in real
life. When I was growin’ up, I couldn’t wait to get the hell out. And then, once I got the hell
out, I wanted to go back.”
WITLESS PROTECTION also presented Larry with an entirely new challenge as an
actor: his first nude scene. In the film, Larry is strip-searched and put through a disastrous
body cavity search. “I had this robe on and I’m like, ‘Aw, goddamn, I gotta get naked in
fronta these sumbitches. And I’m dreadin’ it. I had to disrobe and stand there with a ball cap
over my privates. It was pretty crazy. I ain’t exactly Brad Pitt, y’know? My hind end needs
some work. I mean, it’s nice, but, y’know, it looks like a hailstorm came through.”
The way Larry looks at it, the upside of WITLESS PROTECTION was the
opportunity to kiss actress Jenny McCarthy (SCARY MOVIE 3, BAD GIRL’S GUIDE)
onscreen. “I mean, c’mon. You get a script that says you get to kiss Jenny McCarthy. I’m
in,” he says. “I’m a huge fan of hers and I like her, not only ‘cause she’s gorgeous, but she’s a
regular person and she laughs at stuff that regular people laugh at. I like workin’ with downto-earth people.”
McCarthy plays Connie, Larry’s no nonsense girlfriend who he leaves behind in order
to solve the Chicago crime case. “Jenny McCarthy really is Connie,” avows Blomquist.
“She’s an incredibly spunky, alive person. She’s from Chicago. She understands the smalltown girl thing, but she’s absolutely gorgeous and she’s willing to play with that and have fun
with it.”
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“She brings all the different dimensions of that character together really believably,”
adds Carner. “And she worked really well with Larry.”
McCarthy admits she was pleasantly surprised that Larry in real life was “a pure
gentleman.” She says, “I was so happy that he’s as sweet and adorable and funny as I was
hoping. He wasn’t this rude guy that just burped in my face the whole time.”
Bosnian/American actress Ivana Milicevic (CASINO ROYALE) plays the other
woman in Larry’s life: Madeline Dymkowski, the snooty heiress who initially bristles at
Larry’s crudeness. “The first part where I meet Larry, I’m very cold and a little snobby
towards him. I act as though he’s beneath me,” she says. “My favorite part is when we start to
become friendlier and the movie becomes a buddy picture with two very unlikely buddies.”
“Ivana is very gifted as a comedian,” reports Carner. “She’s great at physical comedy
and she’s a great foil for Larry. She’s somebody special. And this movie, if people like it,
should make her a star, because she deserves to be. She’s wonderful.”
When asked why she thought she and Larry got along so well on set, Milicevic smiles
and explains, “We both think farts are funny and they are. They’re funny in every language.
All over the world. We always had that going for us.”
In addition to McCarthy and Milicevic, the strength of WITLESS PROTECTION’s
script attracted a host of talented character actors, among them Joe Mantegna (HOMICIDE,
BUGSY, NINE LIVES), Eric Roberts (TV’s “Heroes,” 8 OF DIAMONDS, DOA: DEAD OR
ALIVE), Peter Stormare (PREMONITION, NACHO LIBRE, CONSTANTINE) and Yaphet
Kotto (ALIEN, RUNNING MAN, MIDNIGHT RUN).
Mantegna’s path to the project was unique: director Charles Carner was his former
student in a film class Mantegna taught twenty-five years ago at Columbia College in
Chicago. When Carner called his mentor and offered him a part in the film, Mantegna jumped
at the opportunity. “Charlie Carner was my prize pupil when I taught here in Chicago in the
seventies,” recalls Mantegna. “I just thought what a thrill to be in a film that my former
student had written and was going to direct.” Mantegna took on the part of Doc Savage,
Larry’s eccentric brother-in-law who has a freewheeling way with prescription drugs. “Doc
Savage is kind of a throwback to the sixties,” say Mantegna. “He might of done a little too
many pharmaceuticals in his youth and he’s paying the price now.”
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In one pivotal comic set piece, Doc Savage drugs Madeline so that she appears to be
dead. But Milicevic, who had to lie absolutely still in a coffin while Mantegna and Larry
performed their scene, couldn’t keep a straight face. “To have that hilarity above me while
I’m trying to be dead and stoic, it was like I should win an Oscar for that, because it was
impossible,” laughs the actress. “I don’t even know that we got a full take.”
Swedish actor Peter Stormare plays Arthur Grimsley, the wealthy tycoon who is
trying to silence Madeline before her testimony convicts him for tax fraud. Widely respected
for his incredible range as a character actor, Stormare was impressed by the loose,
spontaneous atmosphere that Larry encouraged on set. “Larry’s a very fast improviser. And I
love to improvise,” says the actor. “There’s a lot of joking around both between takes and
during takes. There’s nothing better as an actor than coming home laughing and going to
sleep wanting to work hard the next day.”
Eric Roberts describes his character, Duvall, as an “enormous a-hole who runs a
company called Private Maximum Security. Or PMS.” Roberts, who is good friends with costars Yaphet Kotto and Peter Stormare, was eager to try his hand at a comedy, a genre for
which he’s not often considered. “I play lots of crazy, mean, psychotic people and they’re
almost always in dramas and they’re almost always very, very serious,” he explains. “So it’s a
lot of fun for me to play somebody who is sick and psychotic, but he’s funny, sick and
psychotic.”
“Eric is so imposing and dangerous in terms of his persona,” adds Carner, “but he also
has a lot of charm and sophistication that he doesn’t get to play very often. I enjoyed
bringing both of those sides together.”
As Agent Moseley, the stoic FBI agent pursuing Larry, actor Yaphet Kotto provides a
perfect foil to Larry’s blundering antics. “Moseley’s a bloodhound, really,” says Kotto.
“Nothing will stop him. He has his intent, his purpose and he doesn’t allow himself to eat or
sleep or drink. He’s just concentrating on one thing – to get Larry.”
“Agent Moseley is a big, intimidating force who doesn’t crack, who doesn’t smile,”
explains Blomquist. “Yaphet knows this character cold. Larry will say the most inane things
to him and he just does the best slow burn.”
Kotto found the challenge of keeping a straight face on set one of the most difficult of
his long career. “I’m telling you, this is the hardest thing I’ve done, working with Larry,
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because he’s so funny,” admits the actor. “The crew’s constantly laughing. And you can see
the production people, the executives, they’re all laughing at Larry’s jokes. So your level of
concentration has to be really good.”
Blomquist and Larry admit that they work hard to encourage a loose and spontaneous
atmosphere on set. “That’s the first rule when we do our movies,” says Larry. “We want to
make it comfortable for everybody. We want everybody to have fun. We’re not changin’ the
world. We’re makin’ people laugh. And so the staff that we get is real nice and real fun and
we want to make it so everybody has a great time.”
“Larry, JP and I work at creating an environment that’s comfortable for people so
they’ll do their best work,” adds Blomquist. “We have lots of actors who show up and are just
surprised at how easy everything is and how calm everyone is. We work at that. I always tell
people we’re carnies, you know? I love putting together this family, this petri dish of
personalities and watching it grow into something much more than the sum of the parts.”
The approach, according to the cast, works. Says Mantegna, “It’s just a fun and
eclectic group. I mean, we all come from different kinds of disciplines and backgrounds and
it’s like makin’ a fruitcake with all these crazy ingredients.”
“I hope I run into another crew, another production company, certainly another script
as insane and funny as this one,” adds Kotto. “I know I won’t experience this again. It’s a
once in a lifetime experience.”
Of course, every production needs a steady hand to keep performances and schedules
from veering into chaos, and that person was director Charles Carner. “Charlie’s a very, very
thorough, very organized director,” says Blomquist. “Things always go smoothly and quickly
with him at the wheel, and there’s a little bit of extra time every day to do some fun stuff and
improv.”
“We get along great,” reports Larry on working with Carner. “Charlie is like an older
brother to me. He’s really fun. But if you’re screwin’ up, he knows how to talk to ya. I
would love to do all my movies with him. He gets what I do.”
Even with WITLESS PROTECTION primed for its theatrical release, Larry seems
characteristically non-plussed and maintains his easy-going attitude towards his work.
Entertaining audiences, he says, is the only thing that matters. “I’m good at bein’ this and so I
enjoy doin’ it. I’m not – I don’t ever take myself seriously, y’know? If you’re goin’ to my
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movie and expectin’ to get some big political point or expectin’ to be changed and touched in
a way, then don’t go to my movie,” he says with a smile. “If you’re goin’ to a movie and you
just wanna sit down and laugh at some foolishness, go see it. We’re entertainers and I’m
puttin’ out movies to make people laugh. That’s who I am and that’s what I do.”
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ABOUT THE CAST
With his signature catchphrase, “Git-R-Done,” LARRY THE CABLE GUY (Dep. Larry Stalder) is
selling out theatres and arenas across the United States. On December 5, 2007, VH1 debuted “Larry
The Cable Guy’s Christmas Spectacular.” The Christmas special is throwback to the old school
Christmas variety shows. His Christmas CD, “Christmas Time in Larry Land” became available on
October 9, 2007. For the second year in a row, Larry was named to Forbes Celebrity 100 list, which
lists the hottest and most successful people in the entertainment industry. Larry also recently received
the 2006 Billboard Top Comedy Tour Award
Prior to WITLESS PROTECTION, Larry starred in the film DELTA FARCE, released by Lionsgate®
on May 11, 2007. The movie also starred Bill Engvall and DJ Qualls and is currently available on
DVD. His first feature LARRY THE CABLE GUY: HEALTH INSPECTOR was released by
Lionsgate on March 24, 2006. The comedy starred Joe Pantoliano, Joanna Cassidy, and Tony Hale.
The DVD was released by Paramount Home Video on August 8, 2006 and sold more than 1 million
copies in the first week of release.
Larry is the voice of Mater in the Golden Globe® winning animated feature film CARS from
Disney/Pixar. CARS was released on June 9, 2006 and opened at # 1 at the box office, and grossed
over 200 million dollars domestically.
Prior to all of this, Larry was part of the highly successful concert “Blue Collar Comedy Tour,” which
grossed more than $15 million. The ensemble cast of comedians included Jeff Foxworthy and Bill
Engvall. The tour’s success led to BLUE COLLAR COMEDY TOUR: THE MOVIE, which premiered
on Comedy Central in November 2003 and at the time was the highest rated movie in the channel’s
history. The DVD has sold more than 4 million units. The sequel BLUE COLLAR COMEDY TOUR
RIDES AGAIN has sold more than 3 million units and is the 3rd most watched telecast in Comedy
Central’s history. In March of 2006, the Blue Collar boys reunited to shoot BLUE COLLAR
COMEDY TOUR, ONE FOR THE ROAD in Washington, DC at the Warner Theater. The movie had
its world premiere on Comedy Central June 4, 2006, again receiving some of the highest ratings. The
soundtrack was nominated for a 2007 Grammy award.
His first comedy album release “Lord, I Apologize” has reached gold status, selling more than
500,000 copies. The CD was #1 on the Billboard Comedy Charts for fifteen weeks in a row. Larry‘s
DVD special “Git-R-Done,” has sold more than 1 million copies and has been certified platinum. The
special aired on Comedy Central and gave the network their second biggest Sunday night ratings in
the channel’s history. Larry also starred in “Blue Collar TV,” a sketch comedy series for The WB
network which premiered on July 29, 2004. 5.4 million people watched the show and it was the
second most watched show on television in that time period.
Larry’s comedy CD “Morning Constitutions” was released on April 3, 2007 and debuted at #1 on the
Billboard Comedy Charts. The DVD was released in June of 2007 and the special aired on Comedy
Central, June 3, 2007. His previous release, “The Right To Bare Arms” (Jack Records/Warner Bros.
Records) debuted at #1 on the Sounds can Comedy Chart, #1 on the Country Chart, and #7 on the Top
200 Chart. This marked the first time in the history of Soundscan that a comedy album has charted at
#1 on the Country Chart. It has been certified gold (500,000 units) by the RIAA. “The Right To Bare
Arms” also received a Grammy nomination. His first Christmas CD, “A Very Larry Christmas” has
also been certified gold (500,000 unites). Larry has won Billboard’s 2005 Comedy Artist of the year
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and Comedy Album of the year. He is a bestselling author and his book Git-R-Done (October 25,
2005) debuted at # 26 on the New York Times bestseller list.
For further information you can also go to his website at www.larrythecableguy.com
IVANA MILICEVIC (Madeleine Dimkowski) is best known as one of the stars of the HBO original
series “Mind of the Married Man.” She can next be seen in Stuart Townsend’s directorial debut “Battle
in Seattle” alongside a great ensemble cast that includes Charlize Theron, Martin Henderson and
Michelle Rodriguez. She has just finished production on a new television series for HBO entitled “12
Miles of Bad Road” with Lily Tomlin.
Ivana has seen her life transformed since she was a girl in Bosnia. Born in Sarajevo, Ivana’s family
brought her to America when she was 5 years old where she grew up in Michigan. She started
modeling while in high school and graduated early to follow her acting dreams in Los Angeles. While
continuing to model all over the world, Ivana decided stand up comedy might help break her into
acting. She did stand up at The Comedy Store and was soon discovered by a manager, which lead her
to her first job, a guest spot on “Seinfeld” as “Patti,” the wife of the Russian tennis player, “Milosh.”
She went on to a supporting role in “Jerry Maguire” and a memorable role in “Enemy of the State”
opposite Will Smith and Gene Hackman. She then starred in the feature film “Head Over Heels”
opposite Freddie Prinze Jr. and Monica Potter. Her other feature film credits include “Vanilla Sky,”
“Down With Love,” “Love Actually,” “Paycheck,” “Just Like Heaven,” “Running Scared” and “Casino
Royale.” In television, Ivana starred with Tom Cavanaugh and Judy Greer in the CBS series “Love
Monkey.” Her countless television appearances include guest starring roles on "Felicity," "Friends,"
"Just Shoot Me," “CSI: Miami,” “Ugly Betty,” “The Unit,” and “Chuck.”
Ivana currently resides in Los Angeles.
YAPHET KOTTO (Ricardo Bodi) began studying the performing arts at age 16 at the Actor's
Mobile Theater Studio in NYC. Three years later, he made his professional debut in the title role of
"Othello". He also inherited two stage roles created by James Earl Jones: boxer Jack Johnson in the
Broadway production of "The Great White Hope" and Troy Mason in the Washington (DC) and
London stage productions of August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning "Fences" (1990).
Kotto's imposing physical presence lent itself well to the portrayal of assertive, aggressive, rebellious
characters. He has made sixty eight films but made his first film debut in a gem of a movie, Michael
Roemer's insightful look into black life in the South, "Nothing but a Man" (1964), which won the
Venice film festival. He received raves for his role as Sonny Boy Mosby, murderer of a bestial cop, in
William Wyler's "The Liberation of L. B. Jones" (1968).
Kotto earned an Emmy® Award nomination for his superb performance as Idi Amin in the TV
docudrama "Raid on Entebbe" (NBC, 1977) and has appeared in numerous other TV-movies, among
his many film roles, Kotto provided the first Black Villain ”Mr. Big” for Roger Moore's James Bond
blockbuster thriller in "Live and Let Die" (1973), was a doomed crew member in a second blockbuster
"Alien" (1979), managed (just barely) not to lose control as the incompetent FBI lead man in
"Midnight Run" (1988) and played yet in another heavyweight hit science fiction thriller “The
Running Man with Arnold Schwarzenegger
Kotto landed his first regular role and scored big as Lieutenant Al Giardello in the critically-acclaimed
"Homicide: Life on the Street" (NBC, 1993- ), and scored as a writer for its seven seasons. He has
Produced two films through his independent Company “The Limit” and the yet to be released “Mystic
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Eye” documentary through his Running Man production company a non-profit organization based in
Southern Leyte, Philippines , and founded by actor/director/producer Yaphet Kotto in 1998. For
emerging and aspiring filmmakers, directors, producers, film composers, screenwriters, playwrights,
and theatre artists from around the world.
Swedish-born actor/director PETER STORMARE (Arthur Grimsley) has an international flare that
sets him apart from other performers. Working non-stop as of late, Stormare recently starred opposite
Dennis Quaid in Jonas Akerlund’s THE HORSEMEN.
In addition, Peter has appeared in two seasons of the hit FOX television drama Prison Break,
executive produced by Brett Ratner. Other television credits include the CBS telefilm Hitler: The
Rise of Evil, Watching Ellie, and memorable guest appearances on Seinfeld and Joey.
Stormare has consistently worked with exceptional directors throughout his career. He appeared in
Penny Marshall’s AWAKENINGS, Steven Spielberg’s MINORITY REPORT and THE LOST WORLD:
JURASSIC PARK, the Coen brothers’ FARGO and THE BIG LEBOWSKI, Joel Schumacher’s 8MM,
and Michael Bays’ BAD BOYS II and ARMAGEDDON. Other work includes Lars Van Trier’s
DANCER IN THE DARK, Lasse Hallstom’s CHOCOLAT, Wim Wenders’ MILLION DOLLAR
HOTEL, John Woo’s WINDTALKERS, Jonas Akerlund’s SPUN, and Kevin Donovan’s THE
TUXEDO.
He began his acting career in his native land at the Royal National Theater of Sweden under the
direction of the legendary Ingmar Bergman, where he performed leading roles in Long Day’s Journey
Into Night, Miss Julie, King Lear, and Hamlet. It was while performing Hamlet in New York that
Stormare was embraced by American audiences and was sought out for his first American feature
role. He sustained his work in theater, appearing in productions at the Actors Studio and the Public
Theater; and he became the associate director of the Globe Theater in Tokyo, all while continuing his
film work.
Inspired by his passion for music – specifically The Beatles, The Clash, and Nirvana – Stormare
formed a band called Blonde From Fargo, in homage to his breakout role. The five-member rock and
roll band includes the guitarist from Roxette, the drummer from Alanis Morissette, and the bass player
from Slash’s Snakepit, with Stormare writing all of the music and playing guitar. The band has
performed at Lebowski-Fest, as well as toured North America and Europe.
Stormare currently resides in Los Angeles, California.
ERIC ROBERTS is an Academy Award nominee for his role in RUNAWAY TRAIN and a threetime Golden Globe nominee for RUNAWAY TRAIN, STAR 80, KING OF THE GYPSIES. He
also won a Golden Satellite Award for the 2002 season of “Less Than Perfect.”
At the Sundance Film Festival, Roberts received critical acclaim in 2006 for his role opposite Robert
Downey Jr., playing a mature Channing Tatum in A GUIDE TO RECOGNIZING YOUR SAINTS
and in 1996 for his starring role in the motion picture IT’S MY PARTY. He also made a profound
impact in the Emmy®-nominated television adaptation of Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood”, directed
by Jonathan Kaplan and costarring Anthony Edwards. Eric starred in LA CUCARACHA, which won
Best Film at the Austin Film Festival in 1998, and for which Eric won Best Actor in the New York
Independent Film Festival that same year.
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Eric has diversified in recent years, appearing in Sophie Muller’s Mr. Brightside video for The
Killers, and Brett Ratner’s video for Mariah Carey’s Emancipation of Mimi, both award winners. He
has also appeared on “The L Word” and can be seen this spring on the hit television series “Heroes.”
Other notable performances include his roles in FINAL ANALYSIS, THE POPE OF GREENWICH
VILLAGE, RAGGEDY MAN, BABYFEVER, HEAVEN’S PRISONERS, THE SPECIALIST and
THE GRAVE.
Roberts has appeared opposite Anne Heche and in a film with Faye Dunaway, and numerous other
noted actors.
Roberts was born in Biloxi, Mississippi and grew up in and around the Atlanta, Georgia area. He
began his career as an actor in his late teens in New York City. In 1989 Eric won the Theatre World
Award for his role on Broadway in “Burn This”. He returned to the New York stage in 2003 in “The
Exonerated”, which he appeared in as part of their touring company as well.
JOE MANTEGNA (Dr. Rondog “Doc” Savage) was awarded the Tony and Joseph Jefferson Awards
for his acclaimed performance as Richard Roma in David Mamet's Pulitzer Prize-winning play,
“Glengarry Glen Ross.” He subsequently starred on Broadway as Bobby Gould in Mr. Mamet's
“Speed The Plow.” He made his Broadway debut in Stephen Schwartz's musical of Studs Terkel's
“Working.” Off-Broadway, Mr. Mantegna conceived and co-authored the play “Bleacher Bums,”
which was subsequently produced for television and earned him an Emmy® Award. He directed an
updated production of the play which had a successful run at the Organic Theater in Chicago. His
work with the Organic Theatre Company includes “The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit” and “Cops,” as
well as two European tours.
A native of Chicago, his association with David Mamet includes the premiere of “A Life In The
Theater” and “The Disappearance of the Jews” at the Goodman Theatre. He directed a critically
acclaimed production of Mamet's “Lakeboat” which enjoyed a successful theatrical run in Los
Angeles. He originated the role of Dalton Trumbo in the highly acclaimed Los Angeles premiere of
“Trumbo: Red, White and Blacklisted.”
Mr. Mantegna made his feature film debut in Frank Perry's COMPROMISING POSITIONS. His
early films include co-starring roles in THE MONEY PIT, WEEDS, and SUSPECT. Mr. Mantegna
starred in the critically acclaimed David Mamet film, HOUSE OF GAMES. He also starred in Mr.
Mamet's films, THINGS CHANGE, for which he received the coveted Best Actor Award at the
Venice Film Festival, and the highly praised police thriller, HOMICIDE.
Mr. Mantegna can also be seen starring in Woody Allen's ALICE and CELEBRITY, Francis Ford
Coppola's THE GODFATHER III, Barry Levinson's LIBERTY HEIGHTS and BUGSY, Steven
Zaillian's SEARCHING FOR BOBBY FISCHER and Billy Crystal's FORGET PARIS. Other
starring roles include UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL, BABY'S DAY OUT, AIRHEADS, QUEENS
LOGIC, and EYE FOR AN EYE.
Recently, he starred in the feature film NINE LIVES with Glenn Close, Holly Hunter and Sissy
Spacek. He also co-starred opposite William H. Macy in David Mamet’s EDMOND. Upcoming
films include starring roles opposite Max Minghella and Mary Steenburgen in ELVIS AND
ANNABELLE, LONELY STREET with Jay Mohr and Robert Patrick, CHILDLESS with Barbara
Hershey, COUGAR CLUB, HANK AND MIKE, RIGHT HAND MAN, HUNTED, WITLESS
PROTECTION, and David Mamet’s REDBELT.
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His original feature films for cable include starring roles in STATE OF EMERGENCY, A CALL TO
REMEMBER, MY LITTLE ASSASSIN, THE WATER ENGINE, BOY MEETS GIRL, JERRY
AND TOM and THE RAT PACK for which he was nominated for both an Emmy® and a Golden
Globe® Award. He also starred in a series of original films based upon Robert Parker’s Spenser
novels on the A&E Network. These included SMALL VICES, THIN AIR, and WALKING
SHADOW.
On television, Mr. Mantegna currently stars as David Rossi in the CBS series “Criminal Minds.”
Prior to that, his other starring roles on CBS series included the Emmy®-nominated “Joan Of
Arcadia” and “First Monday.” He starred in the mini-series of Mario Puzo's best-selling novel, THE
LAST DON, for which he was nominated for an Emmy® Award, and its sequel THE LAST DON II.
He was most recently nominated for an Emmy® for his co-starring role opposite Debra Messing in the
USA miniseries, THE STARTER WIFE.
Mr. Mantegna made his feature film directorial debut with LAKEBOAT, which has a screenplay by
David Mamet based on his original play. He also serves as producer on the film which stars Robert
Forster, Andy Garcia, Denis Leary, Charles Durning, and Peter Falk.
He starred as the voice of the Boatman in the animated feature, THE TRUMPET OF THE SWAN.
He will be the voice of Flagg in the upcoming animated film JUSTICE LEAGUE: THE NEW
FRONTIER. Over the past decade he has also been heard as the recurring role of Fat Tony on the
FOX series, “The Simpsons.” He reprised the role in the recently released feature film of the
animated comedy.
Mr. Mantegna is the narrator of the Oscar®-nominated documentary films, CRACK U.S.A.:
COUNTY UNDER SIEGE and DEATH ON THE JOB.
In the past year, JENNY MCCARTHY (Connie) has become one of the most respected public
figures in America. Her honesty, humility, and humor have enabled her to transcend the boundaries
of her roles as comedian, actress, writer, and host. Now, she is welcomed into the homes of America,
a country yearning for compassion and truth, as an activist interviewing with Oprah, Larry King,
Barbara Walters, Diane Sawyer, People Magazine, Ellen DeGeneres, and CNN’s Fredricka Whitfield
on the topic of autism. Her unique ability to articulate the unspoken words of thousands of mothers
and fathers across the world was recognized immediately, and she is now fielding hundreds of
requests per week for interviews, speaking engagements, and public appearances nationwide.
Dutton Publishing wisely closed a deal with this highly-regarded NY Times Best Selling author, and
Jenny’s much-anticipated sixth book will be released in September, 2008. Her previous books, which
include the bestsellers Louder Than Words, Life Laughs, Baby Laughs, and Belly Laughs, showcase
her candid, witty, and fun-loving personality. Like Jenny’s earlier books, Louder than Words also
appeared on Bestseller Lists in USA Today, Publishers Weekly, Los Angeles Times and Wall Street
Journal.
Perhaps it is these innate qualities that contribute to her undeniable accessibility factor, which has
drawn endorsement and sponsorship deals throughout the ad community. In 2006, Jenny began
working with Weight Watchers, encouraging healthy living and nutrition among moms trying to lose
weight post pregnancy. Her refreshingly honest approach generated mass public appeal and, hence, a
role as Weight Watcher’s national spokesperson for their 2007 ad campaign, “Be an After. Stay an
After.”
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In addition to appearing in a multitude of campaigns, including the memorable Candie’s shoes, Jenny
has graced the covers of magazines across the world, including Newsweek, Rolling Stone, People and
Playboy. The diversity in her resume not only boasts a fierce combination of intelligence and sex
appeal but praises her comedic talent as well. Playing recurring guest roles on major network
television shows, such as “Two and a Half Men,” “Just Shoot Me,” and “The Drew Carey Show,”
Jenny has established herself as a sought-after comedic actress.
Throughout her career, as a model, actress, author, and activist, Jenny holds the unique ability to
engage an audience of every age and gender. Jenny McCarthy has, in fact, become a household name,
which is now, more than ever, held in the highest of regard.
Jenny McCarthy currently resides in Los Angeles, California, with her boyfriend, Jim Carrey, and son,
Evan. She remains dedicated to her mission of fighting autism and was recently named the
international spokesperson for the Talk About Curing Autism Now organization (TACAnow.org).
She will continue to encourage parents and children alike, to question the norms of society, search for
their own answers, and understand that throughout it all, it is laughter that truly heals the soul.
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ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS
CHARLES ROBERT CARNER (Director/Screenplay) grew up on the South Side of Chicago. He
worked for the Bureau of Sanitation, and a meat company – that’s two different jobs – before breaking
into the movie business… as a deckhand on Oscar®-winner Tony Bill’s fabulous 65-foot sailboat, the
Olinka.
When it became obvious that he knew nothing about sailing, he was assigned to read scripts.
Suffering from the delusion that he could do better, he began writing screenplays of his own. When it
became apparent that he wouldn’t go away, some of his films got made.
He wrote the feature films LET’S GET HARRY and BLIND FURY. He wrote CROSSFIRE TRAIL
and directed RED WATER, two of the highest-rated cable movies in television history.
He also wrote and directed VANISHING POINT, THE FIXER, WHO KILLED ATLANTA’S
CHILDREN and CHRISTMAS RUSH, and directed JUDAS. None of the above were comedies,
which is why he was the natural choice to write and direct WITLESS PROTECTION. a somber and
profound work that exposes the terrible corruption infecting the highest levels of law enforcement in
America.
Mr. Carner has served on the Executive Committees of the United States Catholic Conference,
Catholics in Media, Family Theater Productions, and the City of the Angels Film Festival. His
nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize is pending.
He is a Life Member of the Sierra Club and the National Rifle Association – and yet, he claims not to
suffer from schizophrenia.
His lovely wife, actress/writer Debra Sharkey, has yet to discover an untraceable poison, so she
continues to put up with him. They have three children, Michael (age 8), Grace (age 5), and Don
Vincenzo (5 months).
JP WILLIAMS (Producer) is the founder and CEO of Los Angeles-based Parallel Entertainment,
one of the entertainment industry’s most prominent management and production companies dedicated
to comedy entertainment.
Williams, who was profiled by The New Yorker, as well as featured in a “60 Minutes” profile in
2006, develops, finances and produces a variety of comedy entertainments for stage, and screen. He is
perhaps best known for creating and producing all of the “Blue Collar Comedy” entertainment
projects involving his clients-partners Jeff Foxworthy, Larry the Cable Guy, and Bill Engvall,
including feature films, comedy CD’s, television specials, DVD premiere films, and television series,
including the current hit TBS sitcom “The Bill Engvall Show.”
Born in West Virginia, Williams began his unique career in New York as an agent’s assistant at
Spotlite Enterprises, Ltd., a leading talent agency specializing in the representation and booking of
comedic talent. He was soon promoted to agent, with clients including soon-to-be comedic giants Jay
Leno, Jerry Seinfeld, Damon Wayans, Adam Sandler, David Alan Grier, and Jamie Foxx. He was
promoted yet again to Vice President of Live Performance a short time later.
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In 1991 he founded Parallel Entertainment (with $10,000 seed money from his only client, Jeff
Foxworthy), a boutique personal management company specializing in comedic performers. Parallel
Entertainment has doubled its profits every year since then.
In 2000, Williams and his star clients-- Foxworthy, Engvall, and Larry-- created Blue Collar Comedy
Tour, a traveling, arena-sized comedy concert featuring the three comedians, along with comedian
Ron White, performing individually and together. The national tour continued for three years and was
so successful that Williams subsequently formed Parallel Entertainment Pictures with producer Alan
Blomquist to develop, finance and produce Blue Collar-themed filmed entertainments.
The company initially financed and produced BLUE COLLAR COMEDY TOUR: THE MOVIE, a
filmed version of the traveling show, which sold more than 4 million DVDs following a limited
theatrical release. Subsequently, Parallel produced the sequels BLUE COLLAR COMEDY TOUR
RIDES AGAIN, which sold more than 3 million DVD’s, and BLUE COLLAR COMEDY TOUR –
ONE FOR THE ROAD, which was one of the highest rated programs ever debuted on Comedy
Central.
Parallel then entered into television production with the WB comedy series “Blue Collar TV,” again
featuring the three comedians performing their unique brand of heartland humor in sketches and
stand-up routines. The series ran for two years. The Company subsequently produced numerous
television specials and series, including “Foxworthy’s Big Night Out” for CMT, “The Naked Trucker
& T-Bones Show” for Comedy Central, as well as others for Comedy Central and HBO starring
Larry, Engvall, and clients Lisa Lampanelli and Ralphie May. Currently, Williams executive produces
the hit comedy series “The Bill Engvall Show” for TBS. In addition to the series and specials,
Williams also produced the one-hour specials “Blue Collar Comedy: The Next Generation,” for TBS,
and “Larry the Cable Guy’s Christmas Spectacular,” for VH1, both airing in late 2007.
Williams has also produced three feature theatrical comedies starring Larry the Cable Guy, including
most recently WITLESS PROTECTION, for release by Lionsgate® in February, 2008; DELTA
FARCE, starring Larry, Engvall, and D J Qualls; and LARRY THE CABLE GUY: HEALTH
INSPECTOR, both also distributed by Lionsgate®.
Williams has produced 29 comedy albums, five of which have received Grammy nominations. Jack
Records, a co-venture between Parallel and Warner Bros. Records, produces comedy albums featuring
some of Parallel’s more than two-dozen clients.
Parallel is also partnered in MyBlueCollar.com, a destination humor website on the Or Die Networks.,
with Foxworthy, Engvall, and Larry, as well as veteran executive Lawrence Lyttle.
In 2004, Williams was awarded the IEBA (International Entertainment Buyers Association) Artist
Manager of the Year Award.
Producer ALAN BLOMQUIST along with J.P. Williams produced DELTA FARCE and LARRY
THE CABLE GUY: HEALTH INSPECTOR, which were also released by Lionsgate®. Together they
engineered the extremely successful Blue Collar Comedy Tour phenomenon which has resulted in
three stand up comedy DVD’s. The most recent installment, BLUE COLLAR COMEDY TOUR –
ONE FOR THE ROAD debuted on Comedy Central. BLUE COLLAR COMEDY TOUR RIDES
AGAIN has sold more than three million DVDs since its release in December 2004. The first film in
the series, BLUE COLLAR COMEDY TOUR: THE MOVIE has sold over four million DVDs. The
success of the films spawned “Blue Collar TV” which ran for 2 years on the WB Network.
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Blomquist’s other credits include the Johnny Cash biopic, WALK THE LINE for 20th Century Fox,
CHOCOLAT for Lasse Hallström which garnered five Academy Award nominations, including Best
Picture. This film reunited Blomquist and noted director Hallström, with whom he collaborated on
THE CIDER HOUSE RULES (nominated for seven Academy Awards), and WHAT’S EATING
GILBERT GRAPE.
He also executive produced TAKING LIVES with Angelina Jolie and Ethan Hawke, BOUNCE for
Don Roos, WHAT DREAMS MAY COME with Robin Williams, as well as SPAWN, A LITTLE
PRINCESS, BEAUTIFUL GIRLS, OF MICE AND MEN and EVERYBODY’S ALL AMERICAN.
Blomquist produced a remake of the 1971 cult film, VANISHING POINT, with Viggo Mortensen for
Fox TV.
Prior to producing, Blomquist served in various key production capacities for both feature films and
television movies. He was the first assistant director on IRON EAGLE and the unit production
manager on LA BAMBA and UNCLE BUCK. He received an Emmy® Award for producing the
ABC “After School Special” The War Between the Classes.
MICHAEL GOI, ASC (Director of Photography) was born and raised in Chicago. He traces his
interest in filmmaking to the day he saw an 8 mm prints of Dracula and Frankenstein projected on a
wall of a friend’s house when he was seven years old. Goi began shooting PBS documentaries while
still attending Columbia College. After graduation in 1980, he began shooting local commercials and
documentaries. Goi also opened a still photography studio, concentrating on fashion and product
shots. He shot Moonstalker, his first narrative feature film in 1987.
Goi moved to Los Angeles during the early 1990s, and has compiled nearly 40 credits, including films
for cinema and television screens. He was nominated for the American Society of Cinematographers
(ASC) Outstanding Achievement Award for the telefilms The Fixer (1999) and Judas (2005).
His credits also include the series My Name Is Earl and David E. Kelley’s The Wedding Bells and Life
On Mars, and the feature films Cut Off, Fingerprints, Red Water, What Matters Most, Who Killed
Atlanta’s Children?, Christmas Rush, Funky Monkey, Welcome to Death Row, and the Emmy®
Award-winning documentary Fired-Up: The Story of Public Housing in Chicago. He recently wrote
and directed the drama Megan Is Missing.
Michael Goi speaks about the craft of cinematography at many seminars, including appearances at the
American Film Institute (AFI), USC, and the Maine Photographic Workshop. He is Vice President of
the American Society of Cinematographers and serves on the Board Of Governors of the ASC, and is
a member of the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences.
Chicago-born MARC LEIF (Editor) has been editing, writing, producing and directing film and
video for more than 25 years. His work has been seen on the screen, on most of the American
television networks, on many of the premiere cable television outlets, and on home video. He has
worked in both fiction and documentary as well as in industrial and educational markets.
WITLESS PROTECTION is the latest of six collaborations for Marc with director Charlie Carner and
cinematographer Michael Goi. Before the Larry the Cable Guy comedy came the action packed
adventure film, RED WATER with Lou Diamond Phillips and Kristy Swanson. It was the highest
rated film in basic cable history.
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Prior to that he edited CHRISTMAS RUSH, a thriller for TBS with Dean Cain, Erika Eleniak, and
Eric Roberts, another collaboration with Charlie Carner and Mike Goi.
Marc also edited KEEP THE FAITH, BABY, a biography of the colorful and controversial Adam
Clayton Powell for Paramount Television and Showtime. Directed by Doug McHenry, the film stars
Harry Lennix and Vanessa L. Williams and was Golden Satellite Award nominee for Best Motion
Picture for Television, Image Award nominee for Best Picture of the Year.
The Chicago trio worked together when Marc edited the suspenseful Showtime film WHO KILLED
ATLANTA’S CHILDREN?, the untold story of the Atlanta child murders, starring James Belushi and
Gregory Hines.
Indie films Marc has edited include the multiple award winning feature, WHAT MATTERS MOST,
with Chad Allen, Marshall Teague, and Gretchen German.
He was the editor of the powerful Showtime character driven thriller THE FIXER, starring Academy
Award winner Jon Voight; a film the Hollywood Reporter called "a classic".
Marc Leif was also the editor of the film VANISHING POINT for 20th Century Fox Television
starring Viggo Mortensen, Christine Elise, Steve Railsback, Keith David, and Jason Priestly.
He was the editor and second unit director of the charming hit film comedy WHO AM I THIS TIME?
for multiple Academy Award winning director Jonathan Demme. It starred Academy Award winners
Susan Sarandon and Christopher Walken.
He has also written several screenplays for upcoming features; among them the exciting, true-life
science adventure story, DAEDALUS, the sexy comedy BREAKING THE RULES, and soon will be
directing his sultry film noire thriller, FATALE .
Some of his non-fiction highlights include writing, producing, directing, and edited the documentary
AN AMERICAN OASIS: THE LYTLE PRESERVE, a chronicle the story of a unique desert
wilderness.
His film, FIGHTER ACE, was nominated Best Adventure Video by the American Video Conference.
Marc wrote, directed, and edited this exciting documentary, seen frequently on the Discover channel’s
Wings.
Marc Leif was director and editor of VOICES, the compelling documentary about the plight of
refugees around the world. Featuring an appearance by distinguished international actress and
humanitarian Liv Ullmann, the film was recipient of the First Prize Gold Apple at the National
Educational Film and Video Festival and the Silver Angel Excellence in Media International
Television Award.
Other human rights projects Marc directed include “The New Americans,” a video dealing with the
refugee resettlement efforts of the International Rescue Committee, the world’s leading refugee relief
organization and The International Monitor Institute, an informational video for the Archive of the
International War Crimes Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.
Marc wrote a number of programs for the Nickelodeon biography series, “Against the Odds,” winner
of the Peabody Award for Best Children’s Programming.
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His knowledge and interest in space exploration led to his serving as supervising editor for NASA's
official daily science report produced at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory during the historic Voyager 2
encounter with the planet Uranus. He also covered the Voyager 2 encounter with the planet Neptune
as part of an on-going project he is doing about the robotic exploration of the solar system.
He is married and has two children.
MAGGIE HOULEHAN (Associate Producer) began her career in the entertainment business in 1994
at Parallel Entertainment, where she has been for the past thirteen years. Maggie currently manages
the careers of Lisa Lampanelli, Jamie Kaler, Scott Dunn and Matt Knudsen. She also works as the
Publicist for Jeff Foxworthy, Larry the Cable Guy, and Bill Engvall. Ms. Houlehan has served as a
Producer on several one hour specials for Comedy Central as well as Associate Producer on the
BLUE COLLAR COMEDY TOUR: THE MOVIE which has sold more then four million copies, the
sequel BLUE COLLAR COMEDY TOUR RIDES AGAIN and BLUE COLLAR COMEDY TOUR –
ONE FOR THE ROAD. In addition, her Associate Producer credits extend to Parallel’s feature films
LARRY THE CABLE GUY: HEALTH INSPECTOR, DELTA FARCE and the upcoming feature
WITLESS PROTECTION. She has produced several comedy albums, including Lisa Lampanelli’s
2007 release DIRTY GIRL, which is nominated for a Grammy award, winners to be announced in
February, 2008.
JENNIFER NOVAK (Associate Producer) relocated to Los Angeles shortly after college to pursue a
career in the entertainment industry. Having worked the summer before as an intern to legendary
director Garry Marshall, Jennifer was involved in the post production stages of Marshall’s Disney
comedy THE PRINCESS DIARIES, starring Julie Andrews and Anne Hathaway. In 2002, she started
out in an entry level position at the elite management company, The Firm, and worked her way up to
assist the head of the Talent Department, Rick Yorn, working on such projects as Warner Brothers
film BLOOD DIAMOND starring Leonardo DiCaprio, and Cameron Diaz’s MTV series “Trippin.”
After 4 years at The Firm, Jennifer joined Parallel Entertainment to oversee their Development
Department in 2006. She has served as Associate Producer on “Larry the Cable Guy’s Christmas
Spectacular” for VH1, Lisa Lampanelli’s Comedy Central special “Dirty Girl”, TBS’ special “Blue
Collar: The Next Generation” and Parallel’s feature films DELTA FARCE and WITLESS
PROTECTION.
SUE KAUFMANN (Costume Designer) graduated from Columbia College. Has been designing for
film and television for 20 years. Susan's work ranges from Art films to Comedies, working on 4
Robert Altman films designing the dance film THE COMPANY, also the dark comedy ICE
HARVEST for director Harold Ramis, and the drama MERRY GENTLEMEN for director Michael
Keaton. Susan also designed the series “Prison Break,” “Early Edition,” “What About Joan” and
“Cupid.”
As a student at Columbia College, SHARON KING (Casting) began her career in production as an
intern at Harpo Productions, Inc.’s “The Oprah Winfrey Show.”
While Sharon penetrated the industry as an Extras Casting Associate, she quickly ascended the ladder
to Casting Director and Producer. In 1987, she started working as an Extras Casting Associate on
feature films and series productions such as "Another Cup of Coffee," THE BABE and "Brewster
Place." As a Casting Associate, she worked on WHAT’S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT, THE FIVE
HEARTBEATS, THE METEOR MAN and "Moe's World."
Her Casting Director/Extras Casting Director credits are extensive. Most notably, HUMBOLDT
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PARK, SCENES FOR THE SOUL, SOUL FOOD, LIGHT IT UP, LOVE RELATIONS,
BARBERSHOP and BARBERSHOP 2, ROLL BOUNCE, OF BOYS AND MEN, ELEKTRA, FAT
ALBERT, SPIDER MAN II, NORMAL, PROOF, ICE HARVEST and THE JAMIE KENNEDY
EXPERIMENT.
She is an active member on various boards including Governor Rod Blagojevich's Visual Media Task
Force, the Illinois Production Alliance - Diversity Committee Chair, Chicago International Film
Festival - Black Perspectives Committee. Sharon is dedicated to producing and developing more
feature films and television projects in Illinois while striving to unite the visual media community.
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Unit Production Manager
Thomas Busch
First Assistant Director
John Nelson
Second Assistant Director
Wendi Lampassi
Cast
(In Order of Appearance)
Deputy Larry Stalder
Sheriff Smoot
Elmer
Bo
Gus
Tater
Connie
Alonzo Mosely
Madeleine
Agent Orange/MIB #1
MIB #2
MIB #3
Norm
Omar
TSA Woman
TSA Supervisor
TSA Dog Handler
TSA Expert
Arthur Grimsley
Vibiana
Mark Bedell
Wilford Duvall
Young Boy
Dr. Rondog “Doc” Savage
Morgana
Lillian Grimoire
Stunt Coordinator
LARRY THE CABLE GUY
RICHARD BULL
J. DAVID MOELLER
WILL CLINGER
OMAR KENT DYKES
RENO COLLIER
JENNY McCARTHY
YAPHET KOTTO
IVANA MILICEVIC
DAN WALLER
RICK LEFEVOUR
JOE CABALLERO
SEAN BRIDGERS
GERRY BEDNOB
CLAUDIA MICHELLE WALLACE
EMIR YONZON
GARY TIPPEtT
JESSE DABSON
PETER STORMARE
JESSICA ORR
KURT NAEBIG
ERIC ROBERTS
MICHAEL CARNER
JOE MANTEGNA
GAIL RASTORFER
LYNNETTE GAZA
Rick Lefevour
Stunts
Frank Calzavara
Tobiasz Daszkiewicz
Mark Harper
Tom Lowell
Dan Maldanado
Carl Paoli
Linda Perlin
Ken Remer
Kevin Sorenson
Bob Stuart
Tom Struthers
Tom Turvey, Sr .
Tom Turvey, Jr.
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Crew
Casting
Chicago Casting
Casting Associates
Costume Designer
Costume Supervisor
Set Costumers
Costume Production Assistant
Art Director
Set Decorator
A Camera Operator
B Camera Operator
A Camera First Assistant
A Camera Second Assistant
B Camera First Assistant
B Camera Second Assistant
Loader
Still Photographer
Script Supervisor
Sound Mixer
Boom Operator
Cable
Gaffer
Best Boy
Rigging Gaffer
Electricians
Generator Operator
Key Grip
Best Boy
A Camera Dolly Grip
B Camera Dolly Grip
Grips
Property Master
Assistant Property Master
Weapons Master
Additional Props
Special Effects Coordinator
Special Effects Technician
Location Manager
Key Assistant Location Manager
Assistant Location Manager
Lead Person
Gang Boss
Swing Gang
Buyers
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Junie Lowry Johnson
Libby Goldstein
Deborah George
Sharon King
Zon Dumas
Johnnie Starks
Rachel Komar
Susan Kaufmann
Alyson N. Hancey
Laura Freeman
Rachael Ohman
Vanessa King
David Tennenbaum
Lisa S. Wolff-Mandziara
Michael Stumpf
Michael Kohnhorst
Dean M. Simmon
Joe Carpita
Robert Faison
Jeff Tomcho
Peter Morenz
Sam Urdank
Drucilla Carlson
Scott D. Smith, C.A.S.
Jason Johnston
Karl Dondlinger
Rick Thomas
Joe Lyons
Chris Glomp
Robert Arnold
Randy Maldonado
Karina Teismann
Dennis Leahy
Cortland Boyd
Mark E. Matthys
Scott Thiele
Addae Shelby
Michael Fahey
Andrew Lostumo
Spencer Rohan
Timothy W. Tiedje
Rob Yale
Charles E. Tiedje
Käthe L. Walton
Ron Bolanowski
Robert Bolanowski
Rosa Yang Kato
Martin Hudson
Stefan Nikolov
Joshua Zylstra
Jeno Dellicolli
Eldridge “JR” Huntington
Peter Wiese
Jessica Voogd
On-Set Dresser
Makeup Department Head
Key Makeup
Hair Department Head
Key Hairstylist
Additional Hair
Post Production Supervisor
Assistant Editor
Dailies Runner
Extras Casting
Art Department Coordinator
Graphic Designer
Storyboard Artist
Assistant Unit Production Manager
Production Coordinator
Assistant Production Coordinator
Production Office Assistants
Key Set Production Assistant
Set Production Assistants
Assistant to Mr. Carner
Assistant to Mr. Stormare
Second Second Assistant Director
Key Accountant
First Assistant Accountant
Payroll
Accounting Clerk
Catering
Chef
Assistant Chefs
Craft Service
Craft Service Assistant
Set Medic
Construction Medic
Visual Effects Provided by
Desi Wolff
Holly Todd
Karen Lynn Accattato
Ross Martucci
Pamela Milone-McLaughlin
Joyce Taft
Alicja Klosek
Jeffrey M. Rose
Michael Stahlberg
Rivelino Carpenter
Extraordinary Casting
Darlene Hunt
Stephanie Barkley
Thomas Castronovo
Mark Shields
Wileen Dragovan
Omar McClinton
Sara Nudelman
Tara N. Thomson
Martina O’Boyle
Valerie Walbrandt
Jonelle Castillo
Rudra Banerji
Adam Palya
Blake Armstrong
Curtis Leopardo
Claire Wiegand
Benny Harris
Courtney Rowe
Terry Mettger
Adrienne Swan
Harold Caldwell
Nicole Basile
Hat Trick Catering
Paul Rathburn
Gabriel Rivera
David Mendez
Jason Negron
Peggy Amoaku
Patti Hogan
Jim York
Sheila Gara
HimAni Productions
Kevin Kutchaver
Digital Titles & Opticals by iO Film
Colorist
Executive Producer
DI Coordinator
Conform Artist
Data Manager
Scan/Record Manager
Digital Imaging Supervisor
Scan/Record Operators
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Adam S. Hawkey
Brian Shows
Kamila Baghernejad
Brian Beard
James Veitch
Gilbert De La Garza
Chris Dusendschön
Jason Adams
Ian Stasukevich
Digital Restoration
Title Graphics
Supervising Sound Editor
Dialogue Editor
Sound Effects Editors
Mia Lavezzi
Christopher C. Jones
Frederick Howard
Robert Getty
Mandell Winter
Roland Thai
Arthur Farkas
Steve Lesieur
Widget Post Production
Alan Freedman C.A.S.
Chris Navarro
Lucy Sustar
Gregg Barbanell
Dominique Tabach
Matthew Iadarola
Gary Gegan
Matt Reale
Kevin Skaggs
Lalapalooperz
Paul Mercier
Beth Wernick
Rudy Guess
Craig Stull
Eric Allaman
Kyle Kenneth Batter
Gary Tharp
Brandon Miller
Lisa Bauman Wasiak
Tyler Osman
Malcolm Greeley
John P. Kenny III
Nathan T. Mack
TOM OSMAN
Frank D. Dambra
Anthony Joseph Fatigato
Carlitos Ruiz, Jr.
David Simone
Calvin Chin
Darnell Jones
Jay Weintraub
Courtney Mueller
Assistant Sound Editor
Sound Services
ADR Mixers
Foley Mixer
Foley Artists
Re-Recording Mixers
Recording Technician
Digital Transfer Engineer
ADR Group
Additional Music by
Orchestrations
Score Mixed by
Additional Music Mixed by
Music Assistant
Music Clearance
Construction Coordinator
Construction Foreman
Carpenters
Head Painter
Painters
Transportation Coordinator
Transportation Captain
Transportation Co-Captain
Transportation Secretary
Drivers
Tony Commiso
Scott Doughty
James Duffy
Larry Hill
Carla Klein
Gracie Klein
Dennis Klimczak
Richard Laverene
John Lux, Sr.
Larry’s Bus Driver
Animals Provided by
Animals Trained by
Animal Coordinator
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James McGhee
Robert Mitchell
Christopher Musick
Dean Polachek
John Pope
Leonard Sutkevich
Keith Tobin
Eric (Matt) Wagner
Michael White
Jerry Don Borden
Amazing Animals
Samantha Martin
Corkey Miller
Insurance
C.M. Meiers
Marc Federman
Dennis Angel
Deanne Bloch
Del, Shaw, Moonves, Tanaka,
Finkelstein & Lezcano
Thomas Greenberg, Esq.
The Angellotti Company
Tony Angellotti
Natasha Subova
Tad Driscoll, SMPS, Inc.
Shea Kammer
Axium International, Inc.
Fotokem
Mato
Dawn Palmer
Ralph Eck
Matt Tomaszewski
Ray Morfino
Richard Flores
CHRISTY’S EDITORIAL
Andy Potvin
SearchWorks
Essanay Studios and Lighting Co., Inc.
Rock Bottom Rentals
Title Clearance
Production Clearances
Production Legal
Publicity
Post Accounting
Payroll Services
Film Laboratory
Color Timer
Video Scheduler
Video Colorist
Video Production Manager
Fotokem Sales
Negative Cutter
Editorial Equipment
Dolby Sound Consultant
Stock Footage Research and Clearances
Lighting Grip Equipment & Generators
Walkies and Cellphones
Songs
Eye Of The Tiger
Written by James Peterik, Frank Sullivan
Performed by The Wallendas of Sound
Produced by David Was and Fred Kron
Chicken Fried
Written by Zac Brown, Wyatt Durrette
Performed by Zac Brown
Produced by Keith Stegall and Zac Brown
Courtesy of Home Grown Music, Inc.
Highway Patrol
Written by Dennis Payne, Ray Rush, Red Simpson
Performed by Junior Brown
Courtesy of Curb Records
Stars And Stripes
John Philip Sousa & George Wilson Carbert Special
Accounts (BMI) and Carlin APM (ASCAP)
Music Provided by APM Music LLC
Sabre Dance
Written by Aram Khachaturian
Light Cavalry-Overture
Franz Von Suppe
Sonoton APM (ASCAP)
Music Provided by APM Music LLC
Don’t Tell My Heart
Written by Donald L. Von Tress
Performed by Blonde From Fargo
Produced by Blum & Strum
Courtesy of StormVox Records
Symphony No.9 'Choral' - 4th movt. ('Ode to Joy')
Ludwig Van Beethoven
KPM APM (ASCAP)
Music Provided by APM Music LLC
Green Acres Theme
Written by Vic Mizzy
20 Dollah Bill
Written by Renard Beavers, Rachel Sarah Senescu
Performed by “Radio Ready” Renard
Courtesy of Mansion Minded Entertainment
Minuet from String Quintet in E, Op. 13, No. 5
Luigi Boccherini and Fiachra Trench KPM APM
(ASCAP)
Music Provided by APM Music LLC
Living In Aluminum
Written by Ronald J. Bell, Chad Cardiff
Bamboozled
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Written by Omar Kent Dykes, Ray Wylie Hubbard
Performed by Omar Kent Dykes
Produced by Omar Kent Dykes and Kevin
Wommack
Courtesy of Ruf Records / Loophole Music
Performed by Antsy McClain & The Trailer Park
Troubadours
Courtesy of DPR Records
The Producers Wish to Thank
Jessica Williams
Ken Madson
Abel Lezcano, Esq.
Bob Bernstein
Kandace Freed
Cecelia Coffet
Kathi Fabian
Joel Sill
Illinois Film Office
Joyce Davis
Bruce Niemi
Bob Wenokur
Nambé
Double H Boots
Zap Props
City of Plano
Village of Glenellyn
CAPS
Northern Trust Bank - Yvette Harris
Dalyn Carbajal
Dave Higby
Jon Moonves, Esq.
Lori Bernstein
Jeanne Bixler Way
Edna Hibel
Mike Garrity
David Was
Betsy Steinberg
Joseph Amari
Richard Kossak
valoen power
Bass Pro Shop
Propabilities
Polo Gear USA
Village of Lemont
Cuneo Museum & Gardens
City of Chicago
Jeanette Hanvey
Doreena Towner, CPA - Emerging Business Solutions Group
American Humane monitored the animal action. (AHA 01646)
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The persons and events in this motion picture are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons or events is
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