Lightning strike

April 21, 2012 at the film festival Tribec premiere of the film "Lightning strike" director Brian Dannelli. The main role in the film was played by Chris Colfer, who also wrote the screenplay of the picture and acted as a producer.

The film begins with the death of the main character: a high school student Clover High Carson Phillips kills with lightning. The events in the picture are described from the point of view of his memories. The viewer learns how Carson blackmails his classmates, so that they write for the literary magazine that Carson releases to increase his chances of entering the university of his dreams. At the same time, his mother, Sharil Phillips, is trying to build a relationship with his son until he went to college.

Chris Colfer said, that the film "about all the children in high school,who are trying to achieve too much on their own, but remain undervalued, as I did in my time. I think it's very sarcastic and very real. I hope that the film will show that there are still very many intelligent children in the world. He is about smart children, and not about stupid children who just want to have sex, and this is their main goal in life. "

Information about the film

Name: Lightning strike
Original name: Struck by Lightning
Tagline: A personal raincloud can be deadly ...
Year: 2012
A country: USA
Genre: comedy, drama
Producer: Brian Dunnelli
Written by: Chris Colfer
Cast: Chris Colfer, Christina Hendricks, Ashley Richards,Sarah Hayland, Alison Jenny, Dermot Mulroney, Elli Grant, Robbie Armel, Matt Prokop, Polly Bergen, Adam Kolkin, Angela Kinsey, Carter Jenkins, Rebel Wilson, Lauren Lopez, Brad Henke
World premiere: April 21, 2012
Duration: 90 minutes

Interesting Facts

Filming took place in the summer of 2011, from July 12 to August 4. At that time Colfer finished the tour as part of the concert tour of Glee Live and has not yet begun shooting in the third season of the series "Choir".