Ken Keen

Mark Borchardt and Mike Schank, the stars of AMERICAN MOVIE, host George Romero's classic NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD from lawn chairs parked in a suburban front yard on the northwest side of Milwaukee.

American Movie est l'histoire du cinéaste Mark Borchardt, sa mission et son rêve. S'étendant sur deux années de lutte intense avec son film, sa famille, son déclin financier et sa crise spirituelle, American Movie est un portrait de l'ambition, de l'obsession, de l'excès et de la quête d'un homme pour le rêve américain.

A beautiful, if ambitious and amoral, youth is tapped to become the lover of a powerful senator. The young man quickly realizes that he can hold this place, with all its perks, only as long as he is young. He has no other function than being young. With the help of an aged judge, the young man, referred to only as The Lover, contrives a plan to make a change in the way of the world, a plan that will take him years to realize. To succeed, he must manipulate, in subtle and not-so-subtle ways, the senator, his wife, the family chauffeur (who was, when young, a lover), and, by implication, the entire well-planned and controlling everlasting secret family.

An early super 8 horror short film by Mark Borchardt