"One Day Like Rain" at the Dances with Films Festival.

I attended the Los Angeles premiere of the indie movie, "One Day Like Rain", Friday night in West Hollywood - the flick was an entrant at the Dances with Films Festival and my friend, Marisa Petroro (one of the girls on Deal of No Deal - #18 suitcase) was in it.

Marisa wasn't the lead. She should have been. Not to take away from the lead in the movie, but I just wanted to see more of Marisa on-screen. She's great to watch...and I'm referring to both her presence and her acting. That being said - oh, I went with my friend, New Yorker Michael Carrera - an acting buddy who I met while I was involved in the Coronet Theater Lab for two years here in LA (Marisa was a part of that group as were my friends in Tujunga, Donovan and Maria).

Above: My friend, Marisa.

Anyway, we didn't like the movie. Hey - I give props to anyone - be it an actor, writer, producer, director of photography - for working at their craft and bringing a dream to life on screen. And I appreciated some of the ethereal aspects of the film - the far-out notions and fantasy. It was a "pretty" film. But I had way too many questions after it was over. Were the people in the woods the same creatures depicted in the animation portion of the film? Was as the lead a human or an alien? What happened to everyone at the end of the movie? It was if the goal of the film maker/writer was to keep the audience in total suspense and purposefully make us ask, "what did I just watch?". And the director/write even admitted during the Q & A afterwards that it's an "out there" film (paraphrasing).

If that was his goal, it worked. Because when the movie was over, I asked myself, "what did I just watch?".

But Michael and I went out to this Irish pub in Santa Monica later and caught up on life, acting, cars, women, Favre and the Yankees and all was good.