The Wednesday Night Save-the-World Society
Eight misfits get together to save the world and end up saving each other.
The world's going straight down the drain. What's a successful, 30-year-old woman to do? If you're Dee Barnes, you organize a discussion group in hopes somebody has an answer...or at least is man enough to marry you and father your children.
- Directed by Dave Eisenstark/Fred Burke
- Written by Dave Eisenstark/Fred Burke
- Produced by Mary Margaret Robinson/David Nagy
- Running Time 85 min
- Release Date 2005
- Content Rating Intended Audience: mature
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Written by Dave Eisenstark/Fred Burke
Produced by Mary Margaret Robinson/David Nagy
Cast Ruth de Sosa: Mr. Hu'ong
Dwight Hicks: M.O.
David Grammer: Troy Spalding
Roger Ranney: Marcy
Mary Margaret Robinson: Donald
Peter Szumlas: Detective Lawson
Madison Wells: deputy
Hollace Starr: Kirk Taylor
David Victor Rusch: Mixer of Phone Conversations
Alex Hajdu: Mixer of Phone Conversations
Gordon Capps: Mixer of Phone Conversations
Rebecca Anderson: Mixer of Phone Conversations
Steve Duval: Mixer of Phone Conversations
Geno Havens: Mixer of Phone Conversations
Tim Riley: Mixer of Phone Conversations
Alan Armes: Mixer of Phone Conversations
Stephen Blanor: Mixer of Phone Conversations
Mary Jo Devenney: Mixer of Phone Conversations
Jan Arcaro: Mixer of Phone Conversations
Jen Swanston/Jack Tucker: Mixer of Phone Conversations
THE WEDNESDAY NIGHT SAVE-THE-WORLD SOCIETY is about the people in a "salon," a discussion group.
At first we envisioned each of the characters carrying equal weight, and each character having a particular story, but eventually we gave the film a hero--the most mature of the characters, but also the most detached. By doing so, the piece became strongly about alienation, loneliness and isolation.
The tension between what the characters wanted for themselves and their ideals for the planet became the central conflict in the movie, and the source for most of the comedy. This freed us from being too topical, something we wanted to avoid since we had no idea how far into the future the film would be seen.
By the time we finished the script, technology had caught up with what we had in mind. A number of films proved you could make a world-class film with consumer-grade materials. And by then we'd been personally involved with one miniDV feature, a comedy, MONKEY LOVE.
