“Trophy Kids” premieres at 31st Annual Breckenridge Festival of Film

June 10, 2011 - PRLog -- Tapped by Brent Simon, President of the Los Angeles Film Critics Society, and film critic for Shockya.com and RottenTomatoes.com as “original, striving and kind of darkly playful, a combination of qualities sorely lacking in American independent cinema at the moment,” “Trophy Kids” will premiere in Colorado at the 31st Breckenridge Festival of Film Saturday, June 11, 2011, 6:00pm.  The filmmakers and stars, Ryan Eggold (90210) and David Gallagher (Super 8, 7th Heaven) will be present for a Q&A following the screening.

Joshua Estrin, National Pop Culture Examiner.com further discusses “Trophy Kids”, in the National Examiner, “Every now and again, a movie appears on the scene which seems to bring together the forces of nature in the name of cinematic brilliance. One that challenges Pop Culture and rises from the primordial ooze of the mainstream to transport audiences and raise important questions about societal norms, mores and who exactly will be leading us into the future. Enter Trophy Kids the masterful "brain-drain" of Josh Sugarman and Brandon Yankowitz."  

“Trophy Kids” echoes the generational nuances of "The Social Network", while on a broader scale is a dynamic introspective on a generation also known as the 'Millennial's' or ‘Generation Y’; children who grew up receiving trophies and other praise for participating and not necessarily winning.  

“Trophy Kids”
Aimless, twenty-something Manhattan playboy Max is special...or so he’s always been told.  Told by his parents.  By his teachers.  By Mister Rogers.  And special people have a responsibility, he knows -  to gift the story of their remarkable, party-boy lives to the huddled, dirty, virgin masses.  To inspire them!  On the big screen!  A New York biopic about his Sexy party-boy existence, yes!  Maybe Max will direct!  All and all, it’s Max’s new life-long dream exclamation point.

Enter the seductive, plotting Quinn (quite the special old money heiress/Brooklyn hipster wannabe) and her new, self-destructive writer friend Reid (also quite special).  Together, the young pair can assuredly take the head-in-the-clouds Max for all he’s worth.  Special young people can do things like that.  They can.  Just watch.  It’s great.  Broke and without a place to live, Reid settles into Max’s luxury apartment and starts to write the Greatest Story Ever Told.  Just as long as he doesn’t have to talk to its subject.

But, as Reid begins to learn, perhaps there’s more to Max than first meets the eye.  Perhaps Max is a Superhero.  Or a Vampire/Civil War veteran.  That's possible in movies.  And, so, as Max and Reid struggle to complete the dubious task before them, simultaneously pursue Quinn and get a handle on their misdirected, some might say delusional, lives, they reveal the comedic, tragic fate of Generation Y - a generation taught to believe each was incomparably special and messianically gifted; a generation so blinded by their own self-idolation that the lines between fantasy and reality might not always be so clear.

They say there are only 7 types of stories in the world.  
Trophy Kids is number 8.  
It’s totally special.


Tickets are available online, at www.breckfilmfest.com/home/ticketinfo.php

“Trophy Kids” is represented by Steven Beer, Greenberg Traurig; US Sales Agent Glen Reynolds, Circus Road Films and publicity firm, Popular Press Media Group (PPMG).

For more: www.AreYouATrophyKid.com

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