TRIGGER (eOne, 2010) D: Bruce McDonald, w/ Tracy Wright, Molly Parker. Rating: NNN DVD package: N Rating: NNN
Director Bruce McDonald tosses in a few visual flourishes and keeps the action flowing, but Trigger is essentially a two-hander that would work as well or better on stage.
Ten years after their drunken onstage breakup, rock and roll bandmates Kat and Vic are meeting for the first time. They’ll have dinner, then attend a tribute to women in rock. Throughout, they’ll bicker, dig up old wrongs and maybe reconnect.
Kat (Molly Parker) lives in L.A. and works in TV, a well-adjusted member of society. Vic (Tracy Wright), a cleaned-up junkie working on her music, remains the cranky outsider. Parker and Wright play well together and catch the awkwardness of the situation so well that it matters little that the movie goes nowhere in particular.
The two minutes of the script’s first reading in the extras adds little.
EXTRAS First reading, music video. Widescreen. English audio and subtitles.
