Festival Satire Hit JUNK Comes to DVD Today

By: Movies News Desk Mar. 25, 2014

Breaking Glass Pictures is excited to announce today's March 25th DVD release of Junk, from director Kevin Hamedani of Zombies of Mass Destruction. Hamedani and co-writer Ramon Isao lead an all star cast including James Hong (Blade Runner, R.I.P.D., Kung Fu Panda), Lynn Shelton (Laggies, Your Sister's Sister) Jake Johnson ("New Girl", Drinking Buddies) and Brett Davern ("Awkward"), as well as performances by rock band OK Go. "Wildly entertaining!" raved the Huffington Post of Junk, which took home the Audience Award at the Austin Film Festival. Junk is currently available on cable VOD.

Kaveh (Hamedani) and Raul (Isao) are two B-movie co-writers who have suffered a bitter falling out. Kaveh's lost his girlfriend, and spends his days getting high in his apartment, while Raul is off studying at Columbia University. But when one of their films ("Islama-rama 2") is accepted by a film festival, the two ex-friends are forced to tentatively re-connect in order to pitch their script to the mysterious producer, Yukio Tai (Hong). Along the way, they will have to Brave brutish bodyguards, cutthroat colleagues, inept agents, romantic entanglements, prima donna actors, and the trials of their own bitter friendship.

Junk (Trailer)

The DVD release of Junk (SRP $24.99) will include a commentary with writer/director/star Kevin Hamedani, co-writer/star Ramon Isao, co-star Brett Davern, deleted scenes and a making of featurette.