Since the dawn of Hollywood, actors have always had special projects. They’ll stumble across an unused script, or they’ll come up with an idea all of their own that they believe in. With a little work and some elbow grease, they’ll take to the circuit in order to secure whatever finances they can with hopes of bringing it all to fruition. Perhaps if they’d open up a bit more to the idea of truly ‘collaborating’ with … more
Star Rating: There are two problems that prevented Collaborator from being the thought-provoking character study it so clearly wanted to be. Firstly, writer/director/star Martin Donovan could not come to a decision as to what he wanted it to be about; it plays like a shopping list of concepts that he picked at random and only examined at arm’s length, never once allowing them to develop into anything or even to let them be resolved. Secondly, the concepts … more