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The Elevator (1996) Online
Original Title :
The Elevator
Genre :
Movie / Comedy / Drama
Year :
1996
Directror :
Arthur Borman,Nigel Dick
Cast :
Martin Landau,Gabriel Bologna,Gretchen Becker
Writer :
Gabriel Bologna
Budget :
$1,500,000
Type :
Movie
Time :
1h 30min
Rating :
4.5/10
The Elevator (1996) Online

Things are going swimmingly for the film producer Roy Tilden, his last film is a success and he will soon receive an award for it. But his perfect day changed quickly when he takes an elevator with a keen writer. Directly after the door is closed, the emergency stop button is pressed and he is caught with a bunch of mildly different people.
Cast overview, first billed only:
Martin Landau Martin Landau - Roy Tilden
Gabriel Bologna Gabriel Bologna - David Brochman
Gretchen Becker Gretchen Becker - Doris
Dean Jacobson Dean Jacobson - Mail Boy
Richard Lewis Richard Lewis - Phil Milowski
Richard Moll Richard Moll - Man Nun
Phil Fondacaro Phil Fondacaro - Dwarf Rabbi
Martin Sheen Martin Sheen - Sarge
Bokeem Woodbine Bokeem Woodbine - Malcolm
Vic Trevino Vic Trevino - Nick
Arye Gross Arye Gross - Moshe
Athena Ashburn Athena Ashburn - Katy (as Athena Stensland)
Paul Bartel Paul Bartel - Acting Coach
Fred Mata Fred Mata - Actor 1
Lynne Johnston Lynne Johnston - Actor 2

Gabriel Bologna was stuck in an elevator with Ron Howard in real life. Gabriel happened to have a script under his arm and contemplated pressing the stop button and pitching him the movie, but instead, came up with the idea for "The Elevator" about a struggling writer who traps a producer in an elevator and forces him to listen to his script that he reads from cover to cover.


User reviews

Ttexav

Ttexav

Big-time Hollywood producer (Martin Landau) on his way to receive a humanitarian award, gets stuck on an elevator with a quirky, naively idealistic neophyte (the film's author, Gabriel Bologna) who has a head full of dreams and a backpack full of short scripts. Nothing is as it first appears, however, even the depiction of the first segment, an off-the-wall indie student's grade-C exercise that features Richard Moll, Phil Fondacaro and Richard Lewis.

As Bologna reads his shorts to a surly and reluctant Landau, the stories get better and more realistic, leading up to a totally unexpected finale. The shoestring production values show, and the credits may elicit a few knowing snickers, (Bologna co-starring and writing, and Athena Stensland, who stars in the third story with Arye Gross a co-producer.)

Yet I applaud them both as well as the rest of the filmmakers, for not only managing to get their work made and seen, but for creating something compelling enough to attract this kind of a cast. BEING JOHN MALKOVICH it's not, but it does mark Bologna as a writer/actor to watch.
Unsoo

Unsoo

A contrivance in which a Hollywood producer (Martin Landau) is trapped on an elevator by screenplay writer/elevator operator (Arye Gross) provides a basis for presentation of some interesting short filmplays with good quality performances by a variety of familiar film actors. Good entertainment.
Hurus

Hurus

The Elevator is somewhat of an ego fest for writer/director/star Gabriel Bologna.

It certainly has its moments, but with its inter-cut stories of short films, that of which Bologna is pitching to producer Martin Landau in the elevator, we are slightly bored stupid and handed a heap of amateurish indie film making that had me reaching for the remote control.

With a nice and dark, slightly unexpected, end to it all, The Elevator is worth a watch and does feature great performances from Gabriel Bologna and Landau when alone in the elevator.

A marmite movie would best describe it.