Common Time Pictures intends to bridge the divide between the golden age of Hollywood and today. We seek to adapt, develop, and produce stories from classic literature and film, as well as create original tales that transport the viewer into the magical world of motion pictures.
‘Ain’t We Got Fun?!’ follows film producer Frankie Dushinsky who returns to LA after a 9-month mental retreat in India only to discover that he greenlit and produced the wrong picture. With the ‘Foreign Distributors” out for blood should the film not premiere in 24 hours’ time, and the unions threatening the same if it does, Frankie opts to flee to his remote vacation home with the film.
Nothing is ever that simple: Frankie is kidnapped by a brothel madam, a ditzy moll, and an Irishman, and taken to his own cabin due to kidnapper incompetence. They are not alone: His jealous, vodka-soaked wife and maid have retreated there, as has a jailbird, in bunny slippers and an affinity for song-and-dance, camped out.
The late-night arrival of Frankie’s oblivious and naïve screenwriting nephew, Brutis Thornbottle, eager for accolades on his recently completed script, complicates matters more. As everyone attempts to steal the canister for his / her own end, danger looms when the distributor’s best man (a woman, obviously) arrives to take control by any means necessary to make the premiere in this sendup to 1930’s musical comedies featuring a slew of classic Tin Pan Alley tunes.
Based on a story by Kathy Rich-McFarland, David Alan Ruben & Jon Tosetti Score by Jake Knox
Cinematography by Jessica Gallant
Editor Ismael Moreno
Starring Kate Bowman, Kim Dalton, Samantha Drews, Everjohn Feliciano, Lyle Friederichs, Jessica J’aime, Kathy
Rich-McFarland, Matt Pick, Patrick Plugge, David Alan Ruben, Jon Tosetti
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