Upon discovering a coded message in the self-help book 6 Dynamic Laws for Success (In Life, Love & Money), which purportedly reveals the location of $2.4 million missing from a bank robbery gone bad, a demoralized ex-used car salesman sets out on a quest to find the money and remake himself in the process. However, he soon discovers he's not the only one after the cash and that the road to riches and self-improvement is littered with irate ex-wives, litigious fiancés, household calamities, accidental murders, and love at first sight.
Filmed in Idaho, the film draws inspiration from the golden age of film noir, screwball comedies, and seminal self-improvement books like Think and Grow Rich and How to Win Friends and Influence People. Shot in stunning black & white, it celebrates classic cinema while offering a fresh, original comic noir.
Starring Travis Swartz, Jennifer Lafleur, Ross Partridge, Lisa King Hawkes & Sara Anne Lynch. Produced by Christian Lybrook & Gregory Bayne. Written and directed by Gregory Bayne.
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Travis Swartz
as Ulysses
Jennifer Lafleur
as Norma
Ross Partridge
as Milton
Lisa King Hawkes
as Lizzie
Sara Anne Lynch
as Sue
Bennett Huhn
as Nicholas
Wildly entertaining… Great Modern films-noir are rare, which makes Gregory Bayne's well-acted, and tight black-and-white take on the genre that much more of a home run.
Tony Kay — Seattle City Arts Magazine
A snappy screwball comedy that keeps you guessing as much it keeps you entertained, 6 Dynamic Laws for Success isn't just the best Idaho-based film in recent memory; it's one of the best original big-screen comedies of 2018!
George Prentice — The Boise Weekly
Fresher than most aspiring neo-noirs. A fine calling card for Bayne.
The Hollywood Reporter
The absurdity and the noir banter combine into a Lynchian high weirdness... Goofy fun for a rainy afternoon.
Bradly Gibson — Film Threat
A healthy dose of Coen brothers/David Lynch larceny courses through the noir-tinged blood-stream of this playful screwball crime comedy.
Michael Rechtshaffen — Los Angeles Times
Led by an acute sense of paranoia, Terrance Dyer — a veteran of the war in Iraq and self-proclaimed American Patriot — becomes convinced that the federal government is setting him up as the fall guy in a soon-to-be terrorist attack on American soil, yet his reactions to the paranoia parallel that of a would-be terrorist.
Produced by Gregory Bayne & J. Reuben Appelman. Directed by Gregory Bayne. Written by J. Reuben Appelman. Cinematography by Gregory Bayne. Editing by Gregory Bayne & Jason Willford. Music by Christopher Sorensen. Starring J. Reuben Appelman, Nova Tydings & Stitch Marker.
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