The Godfather

An angry comedy set in the world of really organized crime.

  • Paul Guay
    Director
    The Vampyre; Who Guardeth the Guards?
  • Paul Guay
    Writer
    Liar, Liar; The Little Rascals; Heartbreakers
  • Patrick Reasonover
    Producer
  • Curt Chatham
    Producer
  • Matt Edwards
    Producer
  • Brian Patrick Butler
    Key Cast
    "The Crime Boss"
  • Joseph Covino
    Key Cast
    "Petitioner #1"
  • Samantha Barrios
    Key Cast
    "Petitioner #2"
  • Michael Silva
    Key Cast
    "Petitioner #3"
  • Stephen Limbaugh
    Composer
  • Benjamin Gaskell
    Director of Photography
    The Return; Demand Curve; A Lifetime Later
  • Andis Solomon
    Editor
  • Kyle Jacobsen
    Sound
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Genres:
    Gangster; Dark Comedy
  • Runtime:
    7 minutes 55 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    March 6, 2023
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    2.39:1
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Paul Guay

PAUL GUAY: Writer / Director / Actor

Paul Guay’s movies have grossed over half a billion dollars.

He conceived and co-wrote LIAR, LIAR, at the time of its release the sixth-highest-grossing comedy in history. The screenplay received an Honorable Mention (along with Fargo, Million Dollar Baby, The Full Monty and Catch Me If You Can) in Scr(i)pt magazine’s list of the Best Scripts of the Past 10 Years.

William C. Martell published Secrets of Story: Liar, Liar, a step-by-step guide to solving screenwriting problems using Liar, Liar as a model.

Two drafts of the screenplay were published by Harvest Moon.

Paul co-wrote THE LITTLE RASCALS, Universal's second-highest-grossing film of the year.

He co-wrote HEARTBREAKERS, starring Sigourney Weaver, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Gene Hackman and Jason Lee, which opened #1 at the box office.

Paul polished THE NEVERENDING STORY, the beloved children’s fantasy which spawned two sequels, two TV series, three computer games, a stage play, a ballet, and an opera, and co-polished MOUSE HUNT, the highest-grossing of DreamWorks’ first five films, nominated for a Saturn Award.

He is a talking head in DREAMS ON SPEC, the feature documentary that interviews such A-list writers as James L. Brooks, Nora Ephron, Gary Ross, Carrie Fisher and Ed Solomon.

Current Projects

He is negotiating with a prominent theatre and indie-film producer to turn one of Paul’s films into a stage musical. (This hasn’t been announced yet.)

Paul just finished co-writing JITTERS, a hard PG-13 horror comedy.

He is now co-writing THE AFFORDABLE [REDACTED], a crime comedy inspired by an outrageous true story that fascinated and entertained people around the world.

After directing the most successful comedy (or for that matter, drama) in the history of Santa Monica’s Morgan-Wixson Theatre (founded in 1946), Paul made his movie-directing debut with three short comedy films he wrote.

THE VAMPYRE was an official selection of Comic-Con, the Hollywood Comedy Shorts Film Festival, the Die Laughing Film Festival, the Awesome Con Short Film Festival, and the Anthem Film Festival, where it won the Best Short Comedy award.

THE GODFATHER and WHO GUARDETH THE GUARDS? will be unleashed on the festival world soon.

Recently Paul wrote AUDITION NOTES, a chapter for an upcoming anthology of acting essays and exercises tentatively titled Now Act! The editor is Laurie Lamson, who previously published Paul’s HURT ME, HURT ME! (OH, AND HELP ME MAKE MY SCRIPT BETTER) as a chapter in her anthology titled Now Write!

Paul at IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0345488/

Paul at IMDbPro: https://pro.imdb.com/name/nm0345488/?rf=cons_nm_hdr&ref_=nm_pub_upslb_login&rf=cons_nm_hdr

Email: apgp@aol.com

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