Trailer: Luke and Owen Wilson in ‘The Wendell Baker Story’

First shown off in 2005 at the South by Southwest Film Festival, and already on DVD in parts of Europe, The Wendell Baker Story - a slacker con-man picture which looks to have a bit of Bottle Rocket slash Raising Arizona era Coen Brothers feel to it - has been picked up by THINKFilm and will finally hit a few select U.S. theaters this month. With a cast of Luke and Owen Wilson, Seymore Cassel, Harry Dean Stanton, Eva Mendes, and Eddie Griffin - Luke co-wrote the film with director-brother Andrew Wilson, who Wes Anderson fans may remember as Future Man in Bottle Rocket and as Rushmore’s Coach Beck. So a Wilson family affair it is.

Considering the names involved in the production, the fact that the film has been sitting on the shelf for two years lends to the perception of damaged goods, though only the few who have seen it up to this point could answer definitively. Jeffrey Wells at Hollywood-Elsewhere had some positive notes on it, save for its ending. The Wendell Baker Story opens in limited release on May 18th.

Trailer (Via Coming Soon).

tedzee | Permalink | May 7 2007 | Comments (View)