True Lies

Interview: Patrick Read Johnson

That Shelf talks to Patrick Read Johnson about his long in the works autobiographical film 5-25-77 and it's long road to the big screen despite being a small film about how he got started as a filmmaker growing up in small town Illinois. Johnson opens up about growing disillusioned with the studio system (working with John Hughes on Baby's Day Out , turning down the chance to do Home Alone , and the troubled post production on Angus ), the good along the way, and bringing his work-in-progress film to the TIFF Next Wave Festival this weekend.