News > Perlman, Pantoliano, and Manning Take "The Job"

Ron Perlman ("Hellboy"), Joe Pantoliano ("Memento"), Taryn Manning ("8 Mile"), and Patrick Flueger ("The 4400") have signed on for "The Job," a dark dramedy directed by Shem Bitterman ("Peephole").

The film, now shooting in Detroit, is an adaptation of Bitterman's own 1998 play "about a hapless man named Bubba (Flueger) who is desperate to find a job and marry the woman he loves (Manning). A drifter (Perlman) hooks him up with a slick employment agent (Pantoliano), but after agreeing to the job, Bubba finds that he is in over his head." 

The cast makes this movie seem like it should be a crime thriller. It's not much of a stretch to imagine Pantoliano and Perlman operating an illegal gun-running organization. But considering it's an indie film that started out as a play, it's probably more along the lines of white collar crime, or maybe Bubba just can't keep up with the ungodly amount of paperwork that goes along with his banal office job.

(The Hollywood Reporter) 

-David Morgan