Good to Go (film)
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| Directed by | Blaine Novak |
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Chris Blackwell (exec.) Jeremy Thomas (exec.) Maxx Kidd (assoc.) Rob Fraboni (music) Doug Dilge Sean Ferrer Ron Downing (art) |
| Screenplay by | Blaine Novak |
| Starring |
Art Garfunkel Robert Doqui Harris Yulin Reginald Daughtry |
| Music by | Various Artists |
| Cinematography | Peter Sinclair |
| Edited by | Gib Jaffe Kimberly Logan D.C. Stringer |
| Distributed by | Island Visual Arts Starmaker Video Vidmark Entertainment |
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90 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1,500,000 (estimate) |
Good to Go (also titled as Short Fuse) is a 1986 crime thriller film written and directed by Blaine Novak, and stars Art Garfunkel as a beat journalist pursuing a murder investigation, with the Washington, D.C. go-go-scene in the backdrop.
S.D. Blass (Art Garfunkel) is a beat journalist for the Washington Daily Tribune newspaper in Washington, D.C. His editor-in-chief pressures him to deliver more featured stories, as it's been too long since Blass has had a decent article printed. Blass reaches out to Matthew Harrigan (Harris Yulin), a detective for the Washington Metropolitan Police department, looking for a good story to pursue. He learns about a nurse that was raped and murdered on her way home after working the night shift at Washington Metropolitan Hospital. Unbeknownst to Blass, the detective had fabricated the police report and placed the primary blame on go-go music and its concert goers. Blass take the story and publishes it with the title: "Nurse Murdered at Go-Go: Music and Drugs Blamed for Violence."
Meanwhile, Max (the owner of "Maxx Saxx Entertainment") manages three of the city's top go-go bands. After fifteen years of playing at local clubs, he feels the timing is perfect to take go-go music nationally. He arranges a sit-down meeting at the Watergate complex with Gil Colton (an L.A.-based record producer) hoping he'll sign his artists to a recording contract. Colton loves the music and the band's energy when performing live at the local clubs. However, he's worried about all of the bad press and media attention that's associated with the live performances. Because of this, he decides not to sign the artist and heads back to L.A.
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