That Sound #55 - Scott Prendergast goes Kabluey!
Friday, August 22nd, 2008
It doesn’t get any more homegrown than this.
Scott Prendergast grew up within a mile of where I did. We went to the same middle school and high school, he was friends with my older sister. He was four years older than me, so we were never in the same school at the same time, but I saw all the plays he starred in in high school.
Four years ago, he sat in the Hillsdale Library, literally across the street from our old high school, and wrote his first feature-length screenplay, called Kabluey. It’s a story of Salman, a hapless loser who moves in with his sister-in-law to help look after his nephews while their father is off fighting in Iraq. To help the family make ends meet, Salman takes a job wearing a giant blue corporate mascot suit, handing out fliers advertising the failing dot-com’s cavernous office space available for rent.
Scott and I met for lunch at Pizzacatto in Hillsdale, then drove five minutes to my parents’ house, where we interviewed in their kitchen. If that’s not keeping it local, I don’t know what is.
Kabluey stars Lisa Kudrow, Terri Garr, Christine Taylor, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Chris Parnell, and Scott as the lead. It opens in Portland tonight at Living Room Theaters.
