Childish Things
A 30-year-old musician questions his resolve to marry his longtime girlfriend when he meets a free-spirited woman on his cross-country roadtrip.
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Nick CassidyDirectorFallen Drive
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Nick CassidyProducer
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Cash CassidyProducer
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Nick CassidyKey Cast"Nick"Fallen Drive, Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists, NCIS:LA, SWAT, The Girl in the Woods
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Guinevere BerthelotKey Cast"Julia"
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Nick CassidyWriterFallen Drive
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Cash CassidyWriter
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Project Type:Feature
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Genres:Mockumentary, Road Trip, Comedy, Drama
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Runtime:1 hour 43 minutes
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Production Budget:7,000 USD
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Country of Origin:United States, United States
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Country of Filming:United States, United States
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Language:English
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Shooting Format:Digital
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Aspect Ratio:16:9
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:No
Nick cut his teeth making no-budget films in his early twenties, including a trilogy of ambitious single-take shorts that he released on YouTube. These early efforts acted as an essential training ground for shooting quickly and cost-efficiently, and cemented his passion for working with friends and family. His debut directorial feature Fallen Drive, a one-location thriller, premiered at the Cinequest Film Festival in 2023 where it was named a Marquee Film and subsequently went on to play at a number of festivals nationwide. Additionally, Nick has honed his craft by acting in a variety of television productions including pivotal recurring roles on Freeform’s Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists, the Peacock original The Girl in the Woods (directed by Krysten Ritter), and memorable guest spots on CBS’s NCIS:LA and S.W.A.T.
Childish Things is his first solo directorial feature.
In Childish Things my family plays my family, my friends play my friends, we actually drive a bus from Maine to California, encounter real people, film in operating businesses, and get to the heart of some universal feelings through characters navigating life’s crossroads.
I like to call Childish Things a “coming of more age” story because, let’s face it, movie characters tend to come of age before graduating high school, but for many people, myself included, it took a bit longer. As a 30-year-old creative doing my best to resist societal pressures of normality, I decided the best way to do that was to make a movie.
So, my younger brother grabbed a camera and a friend to run our sound mixer and we hit the road on a cross-country trek to tell my semi-fictional story as a fully-improvised mockumentary that seamlessly intertwines real people and situations with the imagined scenarios of the movie.
What drew us to shooting in this style (besides being extremely cost-efficient) was the comfort of knowing that anything goes — someone looks at the camera, lav mics are visible, weather is shit, bus breaks down? Great! Put it in the movie.
We had the time of our lives shooting this movie and are beyond thrilled to share it with you. Long live indie film!