STORY
A woman has advertised for a roommate and when a young man answers the ad he seems like the ideal candidate for sharing her apartment. She soon gets romantically involved before she realizes that he is, indeed, the "bad man" a psychic warned her about several years earlier. When she visits a clinic for an abortion--the procedure is described in disturbingly graphic details by a nurse––she battles with the pros-and-cons, since it may be her last chance to have a child.
A FILM BY: Peter Boza, Tinnee Lee, Mark Yellen, Rick Schmidt.
Swedish International Film Festival (NOMINEE, 2024)
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THE (LAST) ROOMMATE was conceived and shot by myself and three students in three months at the California College of the Arts, Summer, 1985. Thanks to David E. Heintz, then Director of the Film Department there, I got the go-ahead to launch this first FEATURE WORKSHOP as I called it, using each month of the summer session to complete one phase of the feature-filmmaking process; MONTH-1= scripting after story selection, MONTH-2=shooting, MONTH-3=editing and printing the 16mm to an answer print. The final film was completed for submissions to film festivals in February , 2024.
Much later, in 1987, I decided to use this moviemaking experience as the foundation for my book, FEATURE FILMMAKING AT USED-CAR PRICES (Viking Penguin Books, 1988, 1995, 2000). In each edition you can find extensive entries about this movie, offered in the index of the 2000 edition, page 405:
Last Roommate, The, 13, 68, 80, 107
"Greg" character in, 19-22
lighting in, 93, 94
list of scenes for, 30-31
location opportunity and, 134-3
plot points in, 32
screening footage of, 147
script for, 33
story concept and budget for, 7-8, 11
synopsis of, 203-4
titles for, 134
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