10 Items or Less (film)
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| Directed by | Brad Silberling |
| Produced by |
Julie Lynn Lori McCreary Brad Silberling |
| Written by | Brad Silberling |
| Starring |
Morgan Freeman Paz Vega Kumar Pallana Jonah Hill |
| Music by | Antonio Pinto |
| Cinematography | Phedon Papamichael Jr. |
| Edited by | Michael Kahn |
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| Distributed by | THINKFilm |
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82 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $1,399,222 |
10 Items or Less is a 2006 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Brad Silberling and starring Morgan Freeman and Paz Vega. Shot in fifteen days,10 Items or Less made its release as a digital download – the first such release via the Internet – while it was still in theaters.
ClickStar, founded by Morgan Freeman, made the film available digitally on December 15, 2006, fourteen days after it made its theatrical debut. This event was highlighted by the American Film Institute in their AFI Awards 2006 "Moments of Significance".
Through circumstance, two strangers, an actor (Freeman) preparing for an upcoming role and a cashier (Vega), drive around Los Angeles together, having a number of conversations about life and exploring the differences and similarities between their worlds.
Freeman served as executive producer. The film was shot entirely in Carson and Brentwood.
The film was released in only fifteen theaters, taking in $35,929 in its first weekend. The total domestic box-office take was $83,291. The film was more successful internationally, grossing $1,315,931 in the foreign box office, with $486,895 grossed in Vega's home country of Spain.
According to Jonathan Rosenbaum of the Chicago Reader, the film is "A friendly demonstration of how two actors with charisma and a relaxed writer-director (Brad Silberling) can make a nice movie for practically nothing." In contrast, Desson Thomson, of The Washington Post, believes that the film is "a natural but failed experiment about a pleasant encounter in the style of independent films".
Critical reaction to the film was mixed, with general praise for the work of the two main actors. The film has had a 63% approval rating based on 59 reviews collected by Rotten Tomatoes.
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