Omaha (The Movie)

OMAHA - THE MOVIE COMEDY
Nepalese Buddhism, midwestern kickboxers and Colombian drug dealers all make their presence felt in this tale of a young Omaha native on a quest for enlightenment. A decidedly independent debut from director Dan Mirvish.

Director Dan Mirvish is a co-founder of the Slamdance Film Festival.

Runtime: 85 minutes

Dan Mirvish may be best known as one of the co-founders of Slamdance, the alternative film festival in Park City that supports first-time independent directors in the way that Sundance did years ago. He's a filmmaker in his own right, though. While his classmates at USC were churning out unmemorable shorts with decades-old Bolexes, Mirvish set out to write, direct, and produce a feature film on 35mm. As you could probably guess from the title in big, bold letters preceding this paragraph, that film was Omaha: The Movie.

Simon has been driven so nuts by his bland, TV-obsessed family and mankind's overreliance on technology that he decides...

Very Nice Independent Film
This Directoral Debut of Dan Mirvish is a great movie for anyone who has ever passed through Omaha in their lives. I am currently living here, and even though this movie is now 11 years old, I find still a very acurate description of the state of Nebraska. Sure, the Aksarben race track is demolished, and there are a few new buildings on the skyline downtown, the charm of the movie, and the statistics, facts, and trivia that is rattled off throughout the movie are all propaganda that I actually heard as "reasons I will love it here" from people in passing. The sterotype "Husker" fans is dead on.

Cameo appearences from Then Govenor, now Senator Ben Nelson, The mayor of Omaha, and the UNO chancelor Delbert Weber add to the charm of this film. The locations of the Antiquarium (still downtown alive and kicking), The Stockyards, Henery Dorley ZOO, and Carhenge are all cool to see in a film preserved for all time here in their pristine glory, and the way they actually are...

I love this movie
I love this movie, but I'm friends with many of the actors. I am biased because of this so I don't know how well I can review it but here goes, I think it was ahead of its time when it was released because of the brother of the main character coming out gay. I enjoy how the main female character is a strong and self confident woman in charge, who has an interesting way of dealing with her romantic feelings! I like how the movie ends with the two main characters realizing what life is about and falling in love at carhenge!

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