``Thunder Road'' is a masterpiece short film that received rave reviews from Sundance and has been turned into a full-length film. Don't miss this super powerful comedy!

"Thunder Road" synopsis

Jim, a Texas police officer saddened by his beloved mother's funeral, tries to play ``Thunder Road'' by Bruce Springsteen, whom his mother adored, on his daughter's pink radio cassette player. Separated from his wife, idle at work, and in a life full of trouble, Jim builds a relationship with his young daughter, Crystal, even as he struggles with the distance between him and his daughter, who is in the midst of a custody battle.

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• The genius of an unknown person who directed, wrote, starred in, and composed the music all by himself.
• A scale-up of the masterpiece short film that received rave reviews at the Sundance Film Festival.
• Climaxes and catharsis that you can't take your eyes off one after another!

The genius of an unknown person who directed, wrote, starred in, and composed the music all by himself.

A police officer from a rural Texas town gives a speech at his mother's funeral. This 12-minute short film won the Best Short Film Award at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. An unknown man who directed and starred in the film expanded the short story into a feature-length film that won the grand prize at the 2018 SXSW (South by Southwest) film festival! Who is Jim Cummings, the creator of "Thunder Road," which was a picture-perfect success story?

If you've never heard of Jim Cummings, don't be embarrassed. The full-length version of ``Thunder Road'' is the first to be introduced in Japan, and until the short story that became the basis for the feature-length film received attention at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, those who knew about Cummings' existence were limited to friends, acquaintances, and family members. This is because, apart from that, there were almost no.

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Cummings, now 34, was born in New Orleans. After watching `` Fight Club '' (1999), he aspired to become a filmmaker and entered Emerson College in Boston, which had a full range of film-related classes. His classmates at school included Daniels (Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert), the director duo of `` Swiss Army Man '' (16). Cummings, who says, ``Even when I submitted films to film festivals, I always came in second place,'' once gave up on his talent as a director and began producing online comedy videos and music videos at a small production company in LA. Ta.

However, he grew tired of being stuck in a routine with no passion, and decided to create a meaningful comedy that would make him laugh and move him. By the way, it seems that Pixar's `` Inside Head '' (15) was a big inspiration for Cummings at that time.

I used my savings to pay for the production, and I sold my wedding ring to make up for it. I had gotten divorced just a year and a half ago, and I wanted to turn it into something that would last. The script, which consists mostly of the main character's monologue (as well as singing and dancing), was written by himself in the car on his way to work every day, ``acting it out thousands of times (I guess it's a metaphor, but I'm repeating it anyway)''. .

A scale-up of the masterpiece short film that received rave reviews at the Sundance Film Festival.