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‘Tripping Forward’ made me laugh
Movies: Despite some flat-footed dialogue and delivery, “Tripping Forward,” the first feature film from Austin-raised actor/director Marcus Nash is ultimately comical and endearing. It’s a guy-guy movie about an out-of-work Hollywood actor and his bum of a musician roomie, and how they raise rent money by re-selling cocaine to supermodels before one of them matures into a facsimile of an adult. Judd Apatow territory, of course, but with a spin all its own. Distribution? It’s all in the cards, isn’t it?
Screened for a private audience at the Alamo South on Monday, “Tripping” benefits from inventive cinematography in the early scenes and entertaining drug and slapstick sequences later in the movie. Frumpy Chip Fogleman, who has done a lot of TV work, is lovable as the actor, chiseled hunky William Gregory Lee, another TV regular, freaks out convincingly as the musician. Ed Begley Jr. makes the most of his turn as a (typically) mad acting teacher.
A stronger first impression from the actors and screenwriters would have given this sweet, if raunchy indie the boost it deserves. (I’d drop the fantasy interview sequence, for instance.) And, oh, Nash seemed well-healed from his emergency surgery at Seton, merrily sharing his scar with friends and family.
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