Sometimes a little bit “Time Warp” is all it’s worthwhile to make issues higher.
Of course, that would not resolve the issues of foremost character, Helen, who falls into despair in John Schneider’s newest movie, “One Month Out,” however it did make issues livelier for Laura Cayouette, who performs her.
The New Orleans-based actress might be greatest identified for her function as Leonardo DiCaprio’s sister, Laura Lee, in “Django Unchained.” Her demise scene in that movie is a well-liked subject amongst movie buffs.
“That’s turn into an iconic scene, and it concerned a stunt,” Cayouette stated, laughing. “And I carried out that stunt, myself. I needed to carry out it a number of occasions.”
Cayouette would not have any stunt work as Helen, however she does run the emotional gamut from outrage to the purpose of suicide as she watches her rich husband, Red, undergo from Alzheimer’s.
Red is performed by Barry Bostwick, identified for his function because the straight-laced Brad within the cult basic movie, “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.” That film’s debauched chaos consists of the dance “Time Warp.”
The dance begins with a leap to the left.
“John was organising a scene, and he advised Barry to hop to the left,” Cayouette stated. “I checked out Barry and stated, ‘Barry, did you hear John? He stated to hop to the left.’ That’s when he acquired my that means.”
Bostwick stopped what he was doing and hopped to the left, then stepped to the appropriate to start out the “Time Warp” dance routine.
“We ended up singing and doing your complete ‘Time Warp’ proper there, and it was top-of-the-line moments through the filming,” Cayouette stated. “The timing was proper, simply after we wanted some comedic reduction.”
That was in 2016. Schneider filmed “One Month Out” at his John Schneider Studios in Holden, and on location on the Guest House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center on Florida Boulevard and the chalet-style mansion, Oak Bend, on Jefferson Highway, each in Baton Rouge.
The film wrapped and was able to go. Then got here a few floods.
“First, we had the 100-year flood in March of that 12 months, which was adopted by the 1,000-year flood in August,” stated Schneider, who each wrote and directed the movie. “We had it on our laptop drive, and although we had it backed up, the water acquired to it. But we have been ready to put it aside.”
Schneider additionally had a second movie on the drive, a comedy referred to as “Three Leches,” which hasn’t been launched. The flood was adopted by monetary issues which just about value Schneider his studio.
If ever he wanted the comedian reduction of the “Time Warp,” it was then.
But ultimately, Schneider got here out on high. He and spouse Alicia Allain, whose manufacturing firm, Maven Entertainment, partnered with the studio in producing “One Month Out,” discovered a technician in California to revive the movie.
Now, “One Month Out” is exhibiting on Schneider’s CineFlix streaming service at cineflixdod.com/one-month-out, and he is considering of giving it a big-screen premiere on the Stars ‘N Cars Drive-In Cinema new to his studio grounds.
“I would do it,” he stated. “It could be nice to see it on the large display.”
For now, although, viewers can use the streaming service to tune in on their televisions and varied units to observe as Cayouette’s Helen tries to face by her husband whereas illness pushes him away from her and towards his younger, blonde caretaker, Sheila, performed by Brande Roderick (“Baywatch”).
Red says he desires to marry Sheila, which breaks Helen’s coronary heart, as a result of she was thought-about “the youthful lady” when she and Red married.
Cayouette refers to Helen as a trophy spouse, however Alzheimer’s has fully wiped Red’s reminiscence of her. Helen turns to her good friend and mentor, Agnes, for help.
Agnes is performed by Ruth Buzzi, who got here out of retirement to tackle the function.
“We’d heard Ruthie say she would solely come out of retirement to work with John Schneider, so Alicia and I had dinner with her and her husband, Kent Perkins,” Schneider stated. “Kent and I’ve identified one another since ‘The Dukes of Hazzard’ days.”
Perkins additionally has an element within the movie.
Though Buzzi is understood for her personal model of comedy courting again greater than 50 years to “Laugh In,” Agnes is a dramatic function. She not solely consoles but in addition warns Helen that Sheila has ulterior motives.
It appears Sheila has a historical past of scamming rich Alzheimer’s sufferers out of their cash.
“She’s carried out it earlier than,” Agnes warns.
This makes Helen’s coronary heart ache much more, as a result of she actually loves her husband, all of which mixes into an awesome emotional gumbo that might solely be dispelled by Bostwick performing the “Time Warp” when the digicam wasn’t rolling.
Bostwick’s easy-going character was one of many issues that appealed to Schneider, who pitched the a part of Red to the actor whereas enjoying golf.
“He learn the script and stated, ‘This is a component for Harrison Ford, not Barry Bostwick,'” Schneider stated. “And I stated, ‘But I do not need Harrison Ford for the half. I would like Barry Bostwick.'”
Bostwick delivers as Red on this story impressed by Schneider’s good friend, who caught a caretaker making an attempt to rip-off her relative affected by Alzheimer’s.
“I keep in mind telling her that she simply took six months out of my life after she advised me that story,” Schneider stated. “She requested me what I meant, and I stated that her story impressed me to jot down my story.”
That story turned “One Month Out,” which, regardless of its heavy content material, does have a light-weight on the finish of its darkish tunnel, when Red’s real love for Helen is revealed by a shock ending.
And, no, it would not contain Red performing the “Time Warp.” But, hey, would not it make you smile understanding that he is dancing someplace between the strains?
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