100 Mile Rule
3-25-04: "100 Mile Rule" is out on dvd. There is one that has a director's commentary and one that is bare bones. The price will usually tip you off.
10-20-03: Oops. I have been remiss in updating this. Hopefully viewers caught it when it aired on Cinemax.
7-27-03: A really huge Thank You to Karen O'Shea for this information. "100 Mile Rule" won the Audience Award for best feature film at the Stony Brook Film Festival in Long Island, NY. [People with class.] It will make its debut on Cinemax on August 19th at 10 pm EST. Can't wait.
10-12-02: Movie premiered in Hollywood on 10-4-02. Darn. Hope the people liked it.
Jake figures large in the movie poster.
10-10-02: Jake's character wears wire rim glasses. He is so cute.
5-29-02: This film is still in post production according to
Cinematographer.com which listed Giovanni Lampassi as the cinematographer.
It filmed in Woodland Hills and Long Beach at Shoreline Park and Terminus
at the end of the Promenade.
Jake plays a Bobby Davis. He's married. From the imdb, his wife must be Shawn
Huff [Katherine Davis]. He has two children, a boy and girl played by David
Dorfman [Andrew Davis] and Abigail Mavity [Kaitlin Davis].
The movie was directed by Brent Huff.
A couple of the other actors are well known faces [although I didn't recognize
their names]. One is Michael McKean who played Lenny in Laverne & Shirley
and can be seen in the indie "Teddy Bear's Picnic". I recognize him as
the annoying undercover guy from the X Files. Another is Maria Bello who
was in ER from 1997-1998 and was in the movie "Coyote Ugly", among others.
The imdb describes the movie as follows:
"A dark comedy about three salesmen from Detroit who come to Los
Angeles for a two week seminar and get themselves involved in a world of
trouble when their 'fun' snowballs into a roller-coaster ride of secrets, guilt,
peer pressure and stupidity."
As an actress from the movie was kind enough to tell me, the title deals
with the guys' idea that if you 'do it' 100 miles from home, it's not cheating.
11-22-02: From Variety, 11-19-02 by Ronnie Scheib:
Again, don't read if you don't like spoilers:
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"Bobby stalwartly resists when a beautiful blond actress/cocktail waitress
Monica (Maria Bello) first propositions him in the midst of one of his
tension-relieving sunset jogs along an oceanside road. He only succumbs
when she appeals to his nice guy empathy and protectiveness. He feels
considerably less protective or empathetic, though, when Monica calls
and blackmails him with a VHS of their intimate encounter to be posted
to his beloved wife if he doesn't pay up.
As it turns out, the entire trap was engineered by Jerry, who lost a lucrative
Chrysler account to Bobby. But what goes around comes around and
Monica cuts Jerry out of the deal and her strapping bartender boyfriend in.
Desperate, Bobby and Jerry solicit the aid of senior manager Howard
(McKean) whose expertise in negotiations is certified by his having
emerged from three divorces owing no alimony. Howard, world-weary
36-year sales veteran, now reluctantly devotes himself to damage control,
McKean's face translating the whole Willie Loman world into tired,
tenacious flesh. Monica proves too wily to fall for salesmen's first tactic,
tricking her into a taped confession, so they switch to plan B: abducting
Monica's bartender boyfriend to have something to barter."
Well, at least he's not playing your 'typical' philanderer. :-)