''Carts'' is a 2007 film directed by
Chris Cashman
Christopher Andrew Cashman is an American comedian, voice actor, and Northwest Regional Emmy winner. He is the son of Seattle comic Pat Cashman.
Cashman served as radio co-host on sports station ESPN 710 AM KIRO during Dave Grosby's noon–3 ...
. It premiered at
The Valley Film Festival The Valley Film Festival (VFF) is an annual independent film festival held in the San Fernando Valley of northwestern Los Angeles, California.
The VFF is a venue for new independent work by Valley residents as well as American and international fil ...
where it won the "10 Degrees Hotter" Award for Best Feature Film.
Plot
A group of misfit shopping cart attendants deal with another day at their dead end jobs.
Cast
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Douglas Spain as Roberto
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Ted Lange
Theodore William Lange III (; born January 5, 1948) is an American actor, director and screenwriter best known for his roles as bartender Isaac Washington in the TV series ''The Love Boat'' (1977-1986), and Junior in ''That's My Mama'' (1974-197 ...
as Ted
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Fernanda Romero
Fernanda Romero (born as María Fernanda Romero Martínez on October 4, 1983) is a Mexican actress, model and singer. She is most noted for her starring role in the Mexican telenovela '' Eternamente tuya'' and her supporting role in the Amer ...
as Maria
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Bradford Anderson
Bradford William Anderson (born September 21, 1979) is an American actor best known for his role as the young Hacker (computer security), hacker criminal Damian Spinelli, Damian Millhouse Spinelli (a.k.a. The Jackal), on the television soap opera ...
as Ed
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Pete Gardner
Peter Gardner (born Pete Zahradnick in Scarsdale, New York) is an American actor, best known for playing Darryl Whitefeather in The CW comedy-drama series ''Crazy Ex-Girlfriend''.
Early life
Gardner studied improv at the Second City improv gr ...
as Daniel McCarey
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Marshall Manesh as Fab
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Martin Klebba as Joe
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Mo Collins
Maureen Ann Collins (born July 7, 1965) is an American actress and comedian who was a member of the ensemble on FOX's sketch comedy series '' Mad TV''. Collins became well known for several characters during her tenure on the show.
She was ...
as Hilda
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Warren Stevens as Fred Tait
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Dennis Hayden as Ted
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Aaron Smolinski as Seth
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Paul H. Kim as Mike
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Sam Sarpong
Samuel Osei Sarpong Jr. (19 December 1974 – 26 October 2015) was a British actor, supermodel, and musician. He performed in over sixty feature films and fifty-five television shows, including such films as ''Carmen The Hip Hopera'', '' Love D ...
as Conrad
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Douglas Tait as Hubertus
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Isabel Cueva as Lupe
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Angelina Spicer as Angie
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Herman Poppe as Henry Low
Production
Writer/director Cashman and his wife financed ''Carts'' on their credit cards.
[ It was filmed on a JVC GY-HD100U Pro HD camcorder.]Burbank, California
Burbank is a city in the southeastern end of the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles County, California, United States. Located northwest of downtown Los Angeles, Burbank has a population of 107,337. The city was named after David Burbank, w ...
over 15 days.
Reception
Film Threat
''Film Threat'' is an online film review publication, and earlier, a national magazine that focused primarily on independent film, although it also reviewed videos and DVDs of mainstream films, as well as Hollywood movies in theaters. It first ...
scored it 3.5/5, calling it "a good start" for director Cashman.
References
External links
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2007 films
2007 comedy-drama films
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