Schatt's Last Shot

Overview

Solondz’s 1985 student short film “Schatt’s Last Shot” provides an ideal entry point to his unflinching universe of dark comic despair. A young Solondz stars in the 10-minute short as geeky high schooler Ezra Schatt, a neurotic, primitive headcase of the young Woody Allen variety. Buried under thick, unseemly glasses and an endlessly dazed expression, Ezra’s worst enemy is basketball. Unable to make a single basket under the brutal pressures of his vulgar gym teacher (“You’re shit, Schatt!”), Ezra also fails at both impressing the cheerleader of his dreams and realizing his aspirations of attending MIT.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

December 18, 1985

Original language

English

Spoken languages

English

Cast

Brucha Balanevsky,Cheryl Scaccio,Todd Solondz

Director

Todd Solondz

Writer

Todd Solondz

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0306049