Nine Manhattanites receive a chain letter. Depending on their decision to either pass the letter on or to break the chain, the various characters can encounter romance, fulfillment -- and sudden death.
Writing
Braided narrative structure that actually pays off
Production
NYC location shooting on clearly zero dollars
Acting
Theater veterans treating melodrama like Shakespeare
Director
Mark Rappaport
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Chain letters peaked in 1980s America; this film captures the analog anxiety before email forwards existed. Rappaport essentially made a horror film about postal infrastructure.
Mark Rappaport self-funded most of his work—this was shot between his better-known experimental films, making it his closest brush with 'commercial' cinema. It still bombed.
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