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SIDETRACKED (1999)

Sam Wright and Julie Ann Willis in front of the Volkswagon Golf from SIDETRACKED

Synopsis

SIDETRACKED is a comedy/adventure about Roger Cole, a young man with a dream of becoming a writer in New York. But before he can leave his home state of Kansas he gets sidetracked into a small town and a strange plot involving blackmail, eccentric characters and the secret of the Beta Device.

 Roger finds Jane Lambert next to her broken down car along the road and agrees to give her a ride to the hospital to visit her father. But as they pass through the small town of Prairie Park, a thief named Grubb hijacks their car and takes them to his boss Mr. Blackthorne. Roger and Jane are then blackmailed into helping Grubb steal the mysterious Beta Device from Larry Finger in order to clear their names as accessories to the earlier robbery. They first meet Finger’s Chiropractor Dr. Payne, and after Roger endures a torturous yet beneficial adjustment they are sent to see Finger’s insane engineer Eric Brainerd and Grubb’s former partner in crime Nitzell. As they continue to get sidetracked by the growing insanity Roger finds himself separated from the others and put on trial by a secret society of judges on the Internet for ‘Crimes against Humanity’. But he must return to save Jane’s life, discover the secret of the Beta Device and simply say “What. The Hell.”

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Credits for SIDETRACKED (1999) – 85 minutes 

Cast:

Roger Cole Sam Wright
Jane Lawrence Julie Ann Willis
Mr. Grubb David Baldwin
Mr. Nitzell Craig Siefkes
Mr. Blackthorne Cody Hunnicutt
Larry Finger Mark Adams
Eric Brainerd Ryan Allen
The Mediator Rory Perrodin
Dr. Payne David Lake
Dr. Payne's Receptionist Lanara Luthi
Documentary Camera Operator/Director Bill Lloyd
Documentary Camera Operator Derek Rathbun
Digital Court Judge #1 Carol Barta
Digital Court Judge #2 Rick Bealer
Digital Court Judge #3 Randy Allen
Man in Dog Suit Brian Chestnut
Military Soldiers Jevin Lockwood
Young Fred Boarman Chuck Smith
David C. Bonine
Andrew Smith
Kenton Lockwood
Mic Huddleston
Brandon Rock Bill Cordes
WKPP Radio D.J. Ty Mull
Quy Lee Quy Wesley
Homeless Guy Sam Wright
Stand-in for Ryan Allen Bill Lloyd
Stand-in for Sam Wright Derek Rathbun
Clyde the Skeleton As Himself
Crew:
Directed By Mark Adams
Screenplay By Mark Adams
Script Consultants Philip Wethington
David Baldwin
Craig Siefkes
Tracy Adams
Music Composed and Performed By Kerry Marsh
Produced and Edited By Mark Adams
Director of Photography Mark Adams
Camera Operators Mark Adams
Derek Rathbun
Clap Board Operators Julie Ann Willis
Sam Wright
David Baldwin
Derek Rathbun
David Lake
Rory Perrodin
Boom Operator Derek Rathbun
Still and Documentary Photography Mark Adams
Derek Rathbun
David Baldwin
Julie Ann Willis
Cody Hunnicutt
Bill Lloyd
Stunts and Martial Arts Coordinators Sam "Action Jackson" Wright
Quy Wesley
Stunt Drivers Derek Rathbun
David Baldwin
Rory Perrodin
Mark Adams
Automobiles provided by Mark & Tracy Adams
Julie Ann Willis
Rory Perrodin & Steve Oelke
1941 M2A1 Half-Track owned and operated by Kevin Lockwood
Special costumes provided by Mark Adams
Rory Perrodin
Steve Pottorff
Mike & Shelly Newkirk
The 4th Armored Division Re-enactment Group
Mr. Potato Head provided by Sam Wright
Mr. Potato Head Wrangler Julie Ann Willis
Beany Babies provided by Morgan Adams
Beany Babies Wrangler Julie Ann Willis
Guy who just wanted his name in the credits Johnny Johntz

 

Video production and post-production equipment provided by

Dick Wade

BCCC Office of College Communications

 

 

Special film-to-video transfer equipment provided by

Shane Boultinghouse,

Portraits by Shane

 

 

Shot on Location at

Barton County Community College

 Camp Aldrich Conference Center

Great Bend Municipal Airport

Brantley Chiropractic

Pro-Green Total Lawn Care

and the city of Great Bend, Kansas

 

The city of Ellinwood, Kansas

 

 

Special Thanks to

 

Dick Wade, Director of Communications

and BCCC Office of College Communications

 

Mark Dean,

Judy Mason

and BCCC Physical Plant

 

Rory Perrodin,

Steve Oelke

and BCCC Power Mechanics

 

 Bob Loss,

Steve Dudek

and BCCC Fine Arts Department

 

 Bert Besthorn

and BCCC/CASE-IH Workshop

 

 Steve Pottorff

and BCCC Meat Judging Team

 

 

Dana Foss

and BCCC Athletic Department

 

 

Connie Bollig,

Justin Engleman

and the BCCC L.E. “Gus” and Eva Shafer Memorial Art Gallery

 

 Charles Batman

and BCCC Security

 

Don Biellier

and the staff of Crick Camera Shop

Kansas City, Missouri

 

Shane Boultinghouse

and Portraits By Shane

Great Bend, Kansas

 

Milt Raymer

Great Bend, Kansas

 

Kevin Lockwood

and the 4th Armored Division Re-enactment Group

Great Bend, Kansas

 

 Brian Mitchell,

Jamie Bailey

and the staff of Pro-Green Total Lawn Care

Great Bend, Kansas

 

 Scott R. Brantley D.C.

and the staff of Brantley Chiropractic

Great Bend, Kansas

 

 No humans were harmed in the making of this film.

 Well, not permanently harmed anyway.

 

 The Producers wish to state that Chiropractic care administered by a trained and licensed

professional can provide beneficial treatment for specific ailments

and improvement of an individual’s general health.

The depiction of Chiropractic care in this film in no way reflects the quality of care

provided by any real person or business.

 

 

The characters and events depicted in the photoplay are fictitious,

any similarity with actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental

 

Finalist at the 2000 KAN Film Festival

 

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