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Treasure Island (1999 independent film)
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Wikipedia article
'Treasure Island' is a 1999 American experimental independent film by Scott King.[https://mubi.com/films/treasure-island MUBI]
Summary
A psychosexual[https://www.filmmakermagazine.com/archives/issues/spring1999/fests/sundance.php FILMMAKER MAGAZINE|Spring 1999: FESTIVAL ROUNDUP] black comedy (which has nothing to do with the Robert Louis Stevenson book,[https://www.filmaffinity.com/en/film147812.html FilmAffinity] but was inspired from an actual account of a counterintelligence ploy by two British officers and their private lives)[https://www.allmovie.com/movie/treasure-island-v176034 AllMovie] about two San Francisco cryptographers,[https://history.sundance.org/films/1973/treasure_island Sundance Institute] Frank a bigamist while Samuel uses threesomes to cover up his homosexuality, trying to bury a corpse that haunted them in Japan before the Pearl Harbor invasion.[https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/521685/treasure-island#overview Turner Classic Movies]
Cast
* Nick Offerman as Samuel
* Pat Healy as Clark
* Suzy Nakamura as Yo-Ji
* Victor Raider-Wexler as Samowitz
* JP Manoux as Officer Hughes
* Jonah Blechman as The Body
* Guinevere Turner as Evelyn
* Caveh Zahedi as Harold
* Bob Byington as Thomas
* Lisa Papineau as Diedre
* Paul Gutrecht as "Some Guy"
* Scott King as Walter
Reception
'Treasure Island' earned some notice from 'The New York Times' film critic Stephen Holden as one of the most original features at the New York Gay and Lesbian Film Festival in which he praised it as a "stylish black and white film" that turns "into an eerie ghost story exploring oppresive racial and sexual stereotypes in wartime America with deadpan humor".[https://www.almanacnews.com/morgue/1999/1999_07_14.king.html Scott King's 'distinctive vision' in film 'Treasure Island' earns award (July 14, 1999)|Almanac Online]
Accolades
It won a Special Jury Prize[https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Unclaimed-Treasure-To-Be-Revealed-Scott-2767082.php Unclaimed `Treasure' To Be Revealed / Scott King's year-old Sundance prize-winner finally comes to the screen - SFGATE] for Distinctive Vision in Filmmaking[http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/Movies/9902/01/sundance.awards/list.html CNN - Winners at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival - February 1, 1999] at that year's Sundance Film Festival[https://www.avclub.com/treasure-island-1798197154 A.V. Club][http://history.sundance.org/events/34 1999 Sundance Film Festival] sundance.org and was nominated for the first John Cassavetes Award, under the name Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature (Under $500,000), at the Film Independent Spirit Awards the following year.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOMYdyqvspk 15th annual Spirit Awards ceremony - FULL SHOW | 2000 | Film Independent on YouTube]References
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