USA: PREMIER OF THE FILM "GO"

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  • Title: USA: PREMIER OF THE FILM "GO"
  • Date: 9th April 1999
  • Summary: LOS ANGELES, UNITED STATES (MARCH 30, 1999) (RTN) SOUNDBITE (English) JANE KRAKOWSKI saying "I was sent the script and when I saw that his name (Doug Liman) was on it, it just made me want to read it faster. I really loved the script. I laughted out loud and I thought it was just so contrasting. I thought there was some that was so, like a music video and really hip and c
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  • Location: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES
  • Country: USA
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  • Story Text: "GO", the latest film from Doug Liman, who directed the acclaimed "Swingers" premiered in Los Angeles on Wednesday night (April 7, 1999).But while the rest of the world is on tenterhooks awaiting the follow up to Swingers, Liman would just as soon forget his last movie and its continuing popularity slightly irritates him.
    Ronna (Sarah Polley) is eighteen and she works in a supermarket.It's Christmas Eve and she doesn't have enough money to pay her rent.Homelessness is staring her in the face.So, when co-worker Simon (Desmond Askew) asks Ronna to work a double shift so that he can go to Las Vegas for the weekend with his mates, she jumps at the chance.
    Simon has a nice little sideline going - selling drugs - but he's out of town.When two guys, Adam (Scott Wolf) and Zack (Jay Mohr) come looking for him to score, she decides to cut them a deal herself, and make some money into the bargain.
    Local dealer, Todd (Timothy Olyphant) though is sceptical, all the more so because Ronna doesn't have enough money to pay for the twenty tabs of ecstasy she's asking for.
    Eventually he agrees to wait until she sells the drugs for the balance, on one condition.She has to leave something of value at his place.With not a bean to her name, the only thing of value that she can think of is her virgin pal, Claire (Katie Holmes) who's not exactly thrilled to be spending the next few hours with someone as intimidating as Todd.
    As it turns out, Adam and Zack are soap opera actors who've been enlisted by the drug squad to bust Simon, but he's out of town, so Ronna is the next best target.
    Realising that all is not well with the drug deal, Ronna chucks the ecstasy down the toilet.
    Her intutition is working well, but now Ronna's faced with eviction and more importantly, she doesn't have any money to pay Todd either.Desperate, she buys some headache pills and tries to palm them off on Todd.He doesn't realise it straight away, and by the time he does, Ronna is on her way to making a small fortune from selling the rest of the dudd ecstasy to unsuspecting party-goers at a local rave.
    While all this is taking place, Simon and his three mates are painting Vegas red and getting into more trouble than they could ever imagine.Two of them end up in bed with food poisoning.It's a wild 24 hours for Simon and Marcus (Taye Diggs), which includes gambling, tantric sex and a fight in a local club during which Simon shoots a bouncer in the arm.
    The two escape the club, but its owner and the bouncer are in hot pursuit, and the four lads are forced to head home to the safety of Los Angeles.
    Having done their bit for the LAPD, even though it went awry, Zack and Adam are keen to get back to normal.But against their better judgement, find themselves accepting a dinner invitation from Burke (William Fichtner), the creep who enlisted them to bust Ronna.
    Burke's conversation with Zack is littered with sexual inuendo, and the soap opera actor is more than a little bit uncomfortable.
    In the kitchen, Burke's wife Irene (Jane Krakowski) makes a pass at Adam.Confusion reigns, especially when Burke says he had a particular reason for inviting the two boys over for dinner.But their fears are unfounded when they find out the only thing the couple are interesed in making them part of is pyramid selling.
    "Go", is the latest Hollywood contribution from Director, Doug Liman of "Swingers" fame.The story which takes place over a 24-hour period, is told from three different perspectives, detailing the fortunes of Ronna, Simon and Adam and Zack.
    It's a small role for actress Jane Krakowski.But when she saw Doug Liman's name on it she couldn't wait to read it.
    She admists being "totally taken in by the first impression of her character Irene, and the twist in the tale, completely blew her away"
    For Scott Wolf it was more of "a gut instinct that made him want to play the role of Adam".Plus he found "the situation that the characters Adam and Zack find themselves in very funny".
    Hollywood Premieres are all a bit new to Desmond Askew, who makes his US debut in "Go".
    The red carpet treatment left him 'gobsmacked', much the same as when he drove to Vegas to make the movie.It was the first time he'd been to the gambling mecca of the world and he says his "mouth was wide open for about two hours when he got there, it was all so different to the east end of London".
    Molly Ringwald joined the cast of GO as they made their way into the screening, anxious to see the final cut.
    Naturally there was a lot of talk of about director, Doug Liman, who has a very "different style from other directors, and even grabs a camera to shoot some of the scenes himself"
    Some were just content to sit back and watch the maestro in action.
    As a means of research for "GO", Breckin Meyer "read up on the effects of MBMA and visited a couple of raves.While some of the actors were "nervous about their big screen performance" others were in the mood for fun and frivolity.
    Tim Olyphant was having a whale of a time winding up the press about "how much of his drug dealing antics in the movie were real life experiences"
    All in all, a lot of the fun and energy that's in the movie was real, especially the Vegas scenes.The four lads who spent their time in strip joints for a month had a fine time.
    For Doug Liman, all the talk about "Swingers" is the last thing he wanted or expected.He's spent the last two years doing Commercials, in the hope of stepping away from that movie.But he himself admits that he had no idea "Swingers"
    would be more popular two years after it was released that it was when it came out.
    "GO" opens in cinemas across the US on Friday, April 9th, 1999.
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