My Big Break (2009)

Directed by

Tony Zierra

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 41m

Rating

5.0 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary follows five aspiring actors who were roommates in Los Angeles in 1999. It shows their early struggles and successes, and then catches up with them years later to see where life took them.

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What happens

My Big Break is a 2009 documentary film directed by Tony Zierra starring Wes Bentley, Brad Rowe, Chad Lindberg, Greg Fawcett and Zierra himself. The film was produced by MBB Group, Elizabeth Yoffe and Zierra. It mostly consists of footage taken by Zierra in 1999, when he and the other four were aspiring actors and roommates living in Los Angeles; the film shows some of them (most notably Bentley) enjoying career successes, while others (notably Fawcett) struggle with rejection. Much of the footage had already been included in Zierra's 2001 documentary Carving Out Our Name, which played only once, at the Toronto International Film Festival. My Big Break shows the footage in re-edited form, and includes newer footage of Lindberg, Rowe and Fawcett, discussing their lives in the intervening years. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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