![]() Something about the accident shakes something loose in his brain, and he recovers unnaturally quickly and leaves the hospital, where unbeknownst to both of them, Leah (Jennifer Autry) was his doctor. When we first see him as an adult, he gets hit by a car, and this is the start of his troubles. Years later, the two friends have never seen each other since, and now Dylan (Breen) is a successful novelist, though with an master's degree in computer science, he hates that this is the turn his life has taken. The opening scene lets us know that this is going to be some kind of fantasy, with kids Dylan (Jack Batoni) and Leah (Brianna Borden) finding a magic mushroom in the forest - not even that kind of magic mushroom I think Breen just used a portobello from the grocery store - which has a magical stone inside it. It's clear, though from early on that there's something much weirder about Fateful Findings than the normal ego trip. As such, it was basically just a clunky, overplotted relationship drama. But I thought I had a grasp on what it was - it was a weird vanity project for Breen, a Las Vegas architect who has enough money to make a regular hobby out of building these DIY film projects around himself as an actor, which at least in the case of Fateful Findings involves a lot of nude scenes and making out with women (these two things do not necessarily overlap. The acting and editing were particular liabilities, but the whole thing felt a bit dreamlike in its stilted inhumanity. Let me put it this way: I was flummoxed pretty much immediately by the film's bad movie bonafides, and only got more flummoxed as it went on. The mere fact that Fateful Findings is so droning and flat stylistically cuts directly against the unfathomably grand scale of its narrative scope. And yet, it is just as gripping in its own way - moreso, even. It resembles The Room only in that both exist in defiance of God's will where Wiseau's film is a histrionic opera of overwrought romanticism, Breen's is laconic and understated to the point that it barely seems awake. What made it notorious, exactly, wasn't something I'd followed up on Breen himself seemed to be a bit of a Tommy Wiseau figure, which in turn suggested that Fateful Findings was probably a bit like The Room, and that was about as far as I ever thought about it.Īs it so happens, Fateful Findings isn't "a bit" like anything else (unless it might be Breen's four other features). A review requested by Mandy, with thanks to supporting Alternate Ending as a donor through Patreon.ĭo you have a movie you'd like to see reviewed? This and other perks can be found on our Patreon page!īefore watching it, I knew about 2013's Fateful Findings, the breakthrough for writer/director/producer * Neil Breen, only that it was notorious.
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