Film Geek

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Film Geek
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Directed byJames Westby
Written byJames Westby
Produced byByrd McDonald
StarringMelik Malkasian
Tyler Gannon
Matt Morris
John Breen
Tara Walker
Michelle Garner
CinematographyJason Hughes
Edited byJames Westby
Music byJason Wells
Distributed by First Run Features
Release dates
  • June 28, 2005 (2005-06-28)(Sarasota Film Festival)
  • February 10, 2006 (2006-02-10)(United States)
Running time
78 minutes
LanguageEnglish

Film Geek is a 2005 independent film written and directed by James Westby [1] [2] and starring Melik Malkasian as Scotty Pelk. The story revolves around Pelk's life as a super film geek and a love interest that develops with a girl named Niko (Tyler Gannon).

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Plot

Scotty Pelk is a socially inept film geek who works at a video store called Video Connections in Portland, Oregon. His biggest claim to fame is his website, www.scottysfilmpage.com (which has yet to receive a hit). He is a hard worker, but eventually gets fired for being too much of an annoyance to the customers. In a funk, he visits several video stores around town to try to find a job, but none of the stores are hiring.

While traveling on the MAX to the Portland Staffing Resources office, Scotty sees a young woman, Niko, reading a book called The Films of David Cronenberg. He is infatuated and chases her down to talk to her about Cronenberg, but she essentially brushes him off.

At the Portland Staffing Resources office, Scotty finds a job working with auto parts. He is confused and lost during his first day at work, all the while continuing to talk about movies with his co-workers. On the way home, he sees Niko again and joins her for coffee, and she invites him to her art show later that night. During the show, Niko kisses Scotty to make her ex-boyfriend, Brandon, jealous. Later, the two go out and sit in Niko's car to talk. Scotty smokes marijuana with her, and they head to a party afterwards. At the party, Scotty gets drunk with two guys who are also film fans.

Scotty constantly calls Niko over the next few days, trying to ask her for a date. She eventually says yes, and they go out to eat at a Mexican restaurant. Afterwards, they watch a movie and then go to a bar. Brandon shows up at the bar and upsets Niko, ending their date.

Scotty continues to obsess and call Niko frequently, but she does not answer her phone. Eventually Niko picks up, but she brushes him off. On the way to visit Niko with flowers and a balloon, Scotty sees Niko and Brandon kissing. Niko then informs Scotty that she and Brandon have gotten back together, indicating that her interest in Scotty had been a ruse to make Brandon jealous.

Scotty goes home and, in a fit of rage and self-loathing, destroys the bouquet of flowers and balloon he had bought for Niko.

Scotty is shown masturbating in his bathroom (one of several such scenes), when he is interrupted by the phone ringing. A Willamette Week newspaper editor is calling Scotty to do an article on him after hearing about his website from the two guys at the party. Once the article is published, Scotty's website becomes popular around the city and he becomes a local celebrity, and eventually gets his own office. While Scotty is signing autographs at Video Connections, Niko walks in after having a fight with Brandon. After talking a little, Niko and Scotty get back together and kiss. Finally, the film cuts back to Scotty masturbating, with the implication that the phone call and all that followed was only a masturbatory fantasy.

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Reception

On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 64% based on reviews from 22 critics. [3]

Reviewer D.K. Holm compared the surprise ending to Nabokov's An Affair of Honor and Ambrose Bierce's An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge . [4]

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References

  1. ↑ "Cast". www.scottysfilmpage.com. Archived from the original on 2007-02-14. Retrieved 2008-06-28.
  2. ↑ "Geeking". www.scottysfilmpage.com. Archived from the original on 2008-05-30. Retrieved 2008-06-28.
  3. ↑ "Film Geek (2005)". Rotten Tomatoes . Retrieved 2021-01-01.
  4. ↑ D.K. Holm. "Film Geek". Movie Poop Shoot. Archived from the original on 2010-04-30. Retrieved 2013-01-23.
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