DIAMONDS AND GUNS
- starring Renee O'Connor and Helena Beaven
Director: Renée O'Connor and Chris Dollard
Producers: Renée O'Connor, Dawn Higginbotham, Helena Beaven, Jane Gelb
Writers: Dawn Higginbotham and Helena Beaven
Co-starring: Jed Sura, Jonathan Fraser, Raymond O'Connor, Julian Moses, Ted Raimi
US Release Date: 8 May 2008
Length: 71 minutes
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Interesting Character Scale (Lorraine Beasely=0 Gabrielle=10}: six
Best scene for O'Connor: Watching porn and waiting for the doctor.
Those who find bumbling mobsters amusing will be greatly amused with this film, and the funniest of the bumblers is Johnathan Fraser (Johnnie B) who looks a lot like the guy who played Puddy on Seinfeld. Sounds like him too. The star of this film is not Renee O'Connor. It is Helena Beaven, who gets all the good scenes and all the good lines. O'Connor's character spends most of the film ill or stoned. Beaven, however, is quite effective as a Kiwi desperately seeking a green card.
Though none of the characters seem to know what they are doing, everything just sort of works out for everybody, which would seem to indicate an alternate universe of some kind. But it's set in Vegas so it's impossible to tell.
O'Connor does use the F-word for the second time in her film career, but generally this is another wholesome character. I do not think she gets to so much as kiss anyone. She does watch porn, but it seems as though she is more curious about it than aroused. The actors in the porn clip shown are not credited.
Beaven has not, apparently, had another film role since this one, and I can't imagine why, unless she's busy with something else. The official site for this film says she has moved into "commercial production". In fact, of all the actors in this film (other than O'Connor and Ted Raimi) with significant roles, only Marco Sanchez (INS guy) has had noticeable roles since this film was made. (He's done a bunch of TV and a film called Cat City.) Jonathan Fraser does have some projects in the works.
