Tuesday December 4th at 7:30 pm at the Royal Oak Main Art Theatre  The Mitten Movie Project present Josh Becker's Running Time starring Bruce Campbell. 

The story pivots around and stars Bruce Campbell, local boy done well in Hollywood,  as Carl just released from prison where he did five years for robbery, where he develops a plan that involves robbing a local front for the prison laundry operation. His not-so-bright buddy Patrick (Jeremy Roberts) sets up the necessary elements for the heist, within minutes of his release from prison he sets the plan in motion. Almost immediately on implementation, the plan starts to fail. Patrick has hired a junky, Donny (Gordon Jennison) to drive the getaway van, misidentified the model of the safe  and in ultimate stupidity shoots an elderly guard during the robbery—then, things get bad.

Shot in stark black and white with a necessarily linear storyline that sums up the past as well as the present, the film moves quickly and deftly. There are no cuts, the story is shot in real time as a continuous shot. The well-developed characters are played with authenticity, especially Campbell's Carl and Janie (Anita Barone), and ex-girlfriend turned hooker who Carl takes up with by chance in the moments after his release. The film's simplicity belies what must have been a truly complicated and challenging undertaking. Certainly there was more involved here than simply loading a camera with 70 minutes of film and following the actors around.