David Ball's Honey (1999)

Who's that girl singer who keeps attacking her former boyfriends? What did she want from them? Was every date supposed to end in matrimony? Even if they did, most marriages end in divorce. I haven't heard any of her music that I'm aware of, so for all I know the break-ups themselves may not have been the problem for her.

In the movie Honey, two couples, one married one not, stay together even though they should probably call it quits. Starts with one couple role playing in a hotel room. The other has a terrible argument although it's in part over one of them wanting to live together.

Ray Carney called it "One of the great contemporary works of art." I wouldn't go that far, but it wasn't bad.

There's a blog for the movie with a copy of the director's "Honey Manifesto" written as a preface to the screenplay.

Director David Ball thought it could be filmed in four weekends, mentioned it being "low concept". He wasn't quite asking people to work for free, but he couldn't pay them upfront and he expressed doubts that the finished product would get distribution.

Filmed on digital video, I assume in standard definition, and the picture looked good to me.

This and a short video made a year earlier are David Ball's only credits on IMDb. I don't know if he went to work in a related field or if he decided making movies was more trouble than it was worth. It's been 22 years.

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