After shooting , the film was shopped at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival in the hopes of finding a distributor – every major studio in the US turned it down . After failing to find a distributor at Cannes , the film was eventually picked up by a small company for a limited theatrical release of five theaters in the US for a period of seven days
1999 Cannes Film Festival
1999 Cannes Film Festival
Troy Duffy