movie #1: MORGAN'S CAKE

POSTING SOME LINKS TO WATCH MY MOVIES, while "home 4 the holidays." Available in my book, "The Films of Rick Schmidt, 1975-2015." (free on KindleUnlimited): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C8PJV7YM

MORGAN’S CAKE, my anti-war/pro-cake movie, from 1988, as discussed in my 2023 book, “The Films of Rick Schmidt, 1975-2015.”

TRAILER: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/morganscake/109308155

Synopsis of Morgan’s Cake
by Clarke Fountain/ALLMOVIES.

“This engaging, gentle and improvisational black-and-white film was written, produced and directed by Rick Schmidt, author of the book Feature Filmmaking at Used Car Prices, for the astonishingly tiny sum of $15,000. The story concerns the life of Morgan (played by the director's own son, Morgan Schmidt-Feng) a 17-year old about to be left on his own. His extremely poor father cannot really take care of him, and his mother is headed off to New York. The lad takes in all of his life's vicissitudes with an inspiring cheerfulness, even as he learns that his girlfriend is pregnant, he must register for the draft, and that he has just been fired from his deliveryman job. Most of the cast are family members or friends, with the exception of professional actor Willie Boy Walker who plays the father.”

“Rick Schmidt’s approach to independent filmmaking doesn’t aim to beat down the doors to Hollywood. His latest “no-budget“ film (MORGAN’S CAKE) has a refreshingly personal point of view and captures sympathetically and with quiet humor the life of a late-80s California teenager.”

—Lawrence Smith, Programmer. SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL (Nominated GRAND JURY PRIZE, DRAMATIC COMPETITION).