Escape from Film School tells the sprightly tale of a young man who makes it in Hollywood without ever leaving film school. When Stuart arrives in California in the Sixties, he is fleeing the draft and he quite literally stumbles into the University of Southern California's film school. Within a few weeks he is living out of his car and making student films with stolen equipment. Within a few years he is rubbing elbows with a young Mike Ovitz and other characters pulled straight from the pages of Variety.
Blessed with a biting wit and a jaundiced eye, Stuart is a keen observer of the machinations, power plays, and absurdities of the movie biz. His account of his own circuitous progress -- and that of his beautiful and ambitious wife, Veronica; his beautiful and ambitious girlfriend, Ginger; and his loyal daughter Rainbeaux -- also offers an incisive and satirical look at this bizarre yet fascinating world. Like The Player, it is a dead-on, often hilarious, and occasionally poignant tale about survival and redemption in Hollywood.
"Sassy, savvy, and super-quick, Richard Walter's mind is a pleasure to follow in any context, and his perspective on the biz only heightens the fun!"
RON BASS, ACADEMY AWARD-WINNING SCREENWRITER OF RAIN MAN, THE JOY LUCK CLUB, AND MY BEST FRIEND'S WEDDING "I loved it. It's a fun, wild, and exciting ride through a prestigious but wacky film school. It made me laugh. It made me want to be a film student again."
GIL CATES, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE DIRECTORS GUILD AND FOUNDING DEAN OF THE UCLA SCHOOL OF THEATER, FILM AND TELEVISION
"Early Accurate in its portrayal of the student film world."
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA
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