Jury winner: Forty Shades of Blue
Audience winner: Hustle & Flow
I didn't catch either of this year's winners, but as best I can tell, only Hustle & Flow (left) will make any box office waves. With Paramount/MTV behind it, how could it not do Coach Carter/You Got Served/The Last Dance business? It's bound to do better than a movie about a Russian woman living in Memphis with a much older rock-n-roll legend who experiences a personal awakening when her husband's estranged son comes to visit.
I fell asleep twice writing that description.
The conventional wisdom is that the audience favorite always goes on to better commercial success than the jury pick, but that's hardly true. Look below at the lists of past winners -- there are a lot of duds in both.
Jury Winners: Primer, American Splendor, Personal Velocity: Three Portraits, The Believer, Girlfight, You Can Count on Me, Three Seasons, Slam, Sunday, Welcome to the Dollhouse, The Brothers McMullen and What Happened Was...
Audience Winners: Maria Full of Grace, The Station Agent, Real Women Have Curves, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Two Family House, Three Seasons, Smoke Signals, Hurricane, Love Jones, The Spitfire Grill, Picture Bride and Spanking the Monkey
Lastly, the reviews are in for Crispin Glover's What Is It? (the first in a freaking trilogy). The movie is as bizarre as expected, which brings me to a story that we picked up in Park City. We were in line at the grocery store chatting with a nice woman who loaned us her discount card. As she tells it, she was living there 10 years ago and had a pretty serious meth addiction at the time. Not surprisingly, one of her top customers was... Mr. Glover.
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