MIFF | 8° Film Festival Internazionale di Milano - Nailed / Joel Silverman / Harvey Keitel, Brad Rowe, Rachel Blanchard, Mary Kay Place,
Nailed Harvey Keitel, Brad Rowe, Rachel Blanchard, Mary Kay Place,
Jeff Romano, 25, and his father Tony are best friends. Tony hopes that Jeff will give up on his elusive Hollywood dreams of becoming a screenwriter and return home to New York. When Jeff meets the beautiful and vulnerable Kelly, his world is turned upside-down. She gives him everything in bed but nothing emotionally and soon Jeff calls it quits. Shortly after the split, she calls. She’s pregnant. Jeff’s best friend, Danny urges him to convince her not have the baby. But, Jeff dreams of having the same relationship with a child, his father has with him. His father however, agrees with Danny. Against their advice, Jeff decides to have the baby with Kelly, and they move in to start a life together. All hell breaks lose as Tony begins the war to save his son from ruining his life. Tony and Jeff nearly come to blows and their relationship begins to disintegrate. Jeff thinks that he can somehow save Kelly from the horrors of her abusive past, but by the time the baby is born, Jeff realizes that he cannot commit to Kelly. His father was right, she’s too damaged to fix. Jeff dreams of being the perfect father begin to unravel until a sud
Directing and producing Nailed were firsts for Silverman, but the role of writer is a very familiar one to him. A former Associated Press award-winning journalist, Silverman worked for papers including The Washington Post and Newsday before transitioning to screenwriting in 1990. Over the last five years, Silverman has sold or written on assignment six scripts for Disney, Fox and MGM. Romantic drama with an edge is the milieu he most often explores. “I like really flawed characters who struggle to change and succeed but don’t quite evolve to the point of a clear victory.” says Silverman.
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