Thursday, August 19, 2010

Rider Strong in the new short film "Your Lucky Day"

I was waiting for months to see this film which debuted at The Seattle International Film Festival earlier this year. Rider Strong plays the lead role in this film in which an old man who is a regular customer of a convenience store finds out his lotto ticket is a multi-million dollar winner. Rider is at first just there to shop, but he overhears this conversation, pulls out a gun, and demands the ticket. The old man resists and then a police officer who was also shopping in the store tries to intervene. He tries to shoot Rider but ends up killing the old man. Rider then shoots the police officer who then appears dead. In an effort to not have to kill everyone who remained in the store, Rider invites them all to share in the millions in exchange for the destruction of security tapes and invention of an alibi which everyone agrees to use. I will not give away the ending. The film in its entirety was posted onto the filmmaker's Vimeo page, so the video below is actually not a preview, but rather the film in its entirety. Enjoy!

Your Lucky Day from Dan on Vimeo.