Blackbird

2007 / 108 mins / US

Writer-director Adam Rapp's gritty urban romance Blackbird unfolds in mid-1990s Manhattan. The picture dramatizes the ill-fated courtship between two melancholic heroin addicts - Gulf War veteran Bayliss (Paul Sparks) and ex-stripper Froggy (Gillian Jacobs) - as they fall in love and battle magnetizing addictions. The possibility of redemption waxes strong from time to time, with hope for some semblance of a "normal life" lingering quietly in the background, but Bayliss and Froggy never quite seem to find the strength and control to pull everything together. And in the end, they join one another on a downward spiral that leads inexorably toward mutual self-destruction

Crew

Director and Writer: Adam Rapp

Cast

Stephen Adly Guirgis
Guy Boyd
Ross Brodar
Gillian Jabobs

Awards

SXSW - Official Selection
Edinburgh Film Festival - Official selection
Charlotte Film Festival - Won Best Narrative Feature