This is what I think Jason Mann thought he was doing in his Project Greenlight movie. He thought he was making something unique. Something wildly different. He said himself that he his movie was inspired by Pasolini and Bunuel (although neither of them ever made a broad comedy.)
Dark Horse is a comedy/drama that drifts between grim dream and reality. Abe (Jordan Gelber) is in his 30's. He's both pitiful and unsympathetic. He lives with his parents (Christopher Walken and Mia Farrow), works for his father and collects toys. He's a terrible son. He doesn't see himself as a freeloader because his parents need him to program the TiVo. He meets Miranda (Selma Blair) at a wedding. He gets her to give him her phone number although she clearly doesn't want to. He manages to get a date with her. She forgets he's coming. She's a depressive who's just moved back in with her parents after a divorce. He asks her to marry him.
Abe begins to realize things about his life, but will it do him any good?
Most of us know where things went wrong in our lives, but the tendencies that got us where we are are still in control.
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