THROWN the Movie
In a once safe middle class community, a new cocaine/diet drug compound begins seeping into it's youth. The new drug is cheap, simple, addictive and attractive. A combination that causes an explosion in distribution that over powers any attempts at regulation. With teens dying weekly and without any class prejudice (the drug is especially popular with teenage girls as a highly effective and pleasurable way to lose weight), a fresh faced private investigator is hired to study the epidemic from the inside at a local high school.
The 23 year old private eye begins the spring semester as Jack Early, a 17 year old senior who has recently moved to town. While he assimilates with the students and gains a reputation as a hardcore partier, he begins to uncover it's drug trade. However, it soon becomes apparent that every friend and contact made now is doomed to be labeled a criminal or worse, a narc. His mission soon goes from observation, to involvement, to a juggling act of lies maintaining lies.
THROWN is an ensemble drama which tells the story of the dealers, users, regulators and all those caught in the cross fire. This movie explores the feasibility of zero tolerance attitudes and what happens when consequences of such attitudes overshadow the benefits.
THROWN will be the first feature length movie by screenwriter/actor Jef Erwin and director/cinematographer Justin Walker. The movie is currently in pre-production with completion estimated in the winter of 2008.
The 23 year old private eye begins the spring semester as Jack Early, a 17 year old senior who has recently moved to town. While he assimilates with the students and gains a reputation as a hardcore partier, he begins to uncover it's drug trade. However, it soon becomes apparent that every friend and contact made now is doomed to be labeled a criminal or worse, a narc. His mission soon goes from observation, to involvement, to a juggling act of lies maintaining lies.
THROWN is an ensemble drama which tells the story of the dealers, users, regulators and all those caught in the cross fire. This movie explores the feasibility of zero tolerance attitudes and what happens when consequences of such attitudes overshadow the benefits.
THROWN will be the first feature length movie by screenwriter/actor Jef Erwin and director/cinematographer Justin Walker. The movie is currently in pre-production with completion estimated in the winter of 2008.