Please tell your friends in Los Angeles and Boston and NY to catch the film before we close in those cities.  In addition to DC, we’ve got Austin, Dallas, Honolulu, and Wilmington coming up this weekend.  We don’t have Al Gore money behind us.  We depend on you to spread the word!

It’s been interesting doing the Q and A. I covered the NYC shows last week-end and Steve and Lawrence O’Donnell covered LA and Pasadena, CA. I had great crowds. It’s interesting because when Ralph is there he gets all the questions and when he’s not, most of what I do is tell the audiences what he has said to others. Although I have say the occasional question comes in about how this movie came about in the first place.

Oddly enough, it was an idea for a sit-com. Steve had a development deal after his 9 years at “Everybody Loves Raymond” and I was so on board to help him with that. It was going to be a sit-com about a public interest office in DC with a consumer advocate. Are you laughing already? Anyway, to make a long story kinda short, it went nowhere but as I introduced him to all my friends and former colleagues, it became very obvious that we had to tell this story. So we started interviewing people, set up a very humble, cockroach-ridden, edit room in Echo Park, CA. We were a team of about 5. Kevin our producer and Ellie our do-everything-aspiring-actress gal worked on card tables in the kitchen. Our editor, Alexis was in the big room with the Final Cut Pro system that none of us were exactly sure how to use. But before we knew it we were in Sundance on a 3 and half hour cut that we got down to 2 hours 35 minutes for the festival. We actually called in another editor, Beth who helped Alexis and all of us to make this thing look like a real movie. After Sundance we shortened it to the length it is now, 2 hours and 2 minutes. But just so you know, without credits — it would be 1 hour, 59 minutes. Darn those credits.

So here we are going out to 40 cities. Please tell your friends.

I’m going to start talking on here every few days to catch you up on what’s going on. And I’m also going to work on Steve to come by and give his 2 cents!!!

Thanks for your patience. Check out all our reviews at RottonTomatoes.com.

The one thing that I learn again and again with showing this movie is that there is no middle ground with Ralph. Either people love him or hate him…. everyone has a definite opinion, so thanks for saying yours on here.

Henriette

Please listen to Amy Goodman on Democracy Now on Monday morning (Feb. 5). Ralph and I will be on.

Thanks and I will check in again as soon as I come up for breath from this opening week-end!! I’m bugging Steve to come say hi too, so I’m sure he will be here any minute. THANKS and tell your friends to come see AN UNREASONABLE MAN!!!! Bye, Henriette

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