Poor Greg Drowning
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| Poor Greg Drowning | |
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| Directed by | Jeffrey Scott Collins |
| Written by | Jeffrey Scott Collins |
| Based on | Glimpses of Greg |
| Produced by | Jeffrey Scott Collins, Jessica Kraby, Andrea Topper |
| Starring | Graham Sibley, Marguerite Insolia, Ajay Mehta |
| Narrated by | Cedric the Entertainer |
| Music by | Gary Lionelli Nicole Churchill |
| Distributed by | Comedy Dynamics |
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Running time | 77 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Poor Greg Drowning is a 2018 comedy film from writer and director Jeffrey Scott Collins, adapted from his short film Glimpses of Greg. It stars Graham Sibley, Marguerite Insolia, and Ajay Mehta, and was narrated by Cedric the Entertainer. An initial cut of the film premiered at the 2018 Sunscreen Film Festival in St. Petersburg, Florida.[1] Comedy Dynamics released the film via multiple digital platforms on August 11, 2020.[2]
A writer from New York named Greg Drowning falls in love with a new tenant renting a room in his Los Angeles home.[3]
Development
Poor Greg Drowning was adapted from director Jeffrey Scott Collins's short film Glimpses of Greg, and some footage from the short film was used in the feature. Collins mainly filmed Poor Greg Drowning on weekends. The animated sequences in the film were created by animator Steven Kamakanda, and were inspired by Collins' drawing of Greg as a stick figure used as a title card for Glimpses of Greg. The sequences were added after an early cut Poor Greg Drowning had played at festivals, with Cedric the Entertainer, who Collins worked with on Why Him?, agreeing to narrate the scenes. Some of the dialogue was improved by the actors on-set. The soundtrack was composed by Nicole Churchill, although Collins chose not to use music in several key dramatic moments throughout the film, as he felt it may distract from the comedy.[4]
Filming began in June 2015 and ended in September 2016, and the film was shot with a small crew. After the early cut played at festivals, the final cut of the film was completed in March 2020. As the crew did not have a dedicated props department, they needed to mix together an assortment of foods in the kitchen at the location where they were filming to create the fake vomit for the scene where Greg vomits over his trainer’s feet. The final scenes in the film were filmed over a period of six days after the crew received additional funding to finish principal photography.[5]
It was confirmed on April 27, 2020 that Comedy Dynamics had acquired Poor Greg Drowning and would release the film onto video on demand services on August 11.[6]