a Film by Taylor A. Purdee
About the Film
From a screenplay recently preserved in The Academy©'s permanent Core Collection, Killian & the Comeback Kids is the story of a young mixed race musician forced to return to his rural hometown after an expensive college degree.
A chance encounter with a childhood acquaintance gives the summer new direction.
Together they throw together a rag-tag band of other struggling locals for one shot to play a music festival coming to their once prosperous steel town.
Armed with only folk-rock, Killian and the band hope to unite the community - - if just for one night.
A little musical at the cross roads of small town America and a burgeoning youth culture only just beginning to find its voice.
Credits
Written and Directed by Taylor A. Purdee
Produced by Roberta Morris Purdee and Taylor A. Purdee
Executive Producers Suzanne Ordas Curry & Liam Higgins
With Original Music by The Cumberland Kids
Starring:
Taylor A. Purdee
John Donchak
Nathan Purdee, Kassie DePaiva
Shane Andries, Shannon O'Boyle
Andrew O'Shanick, Emily Mest, Yael Elisheva
And Introducing Genesis McCaulley
With Maddi Jane
And Lee Grant
Praises Sung
"Maximum entertainment...The heart of 'Once'...[and] the early films of Greta Gerwig...'Killlian & the Comeback Kids' lingers long after you've left the movie theatre."
“Filmmaker/composer Taylor A. Purdee has a lot of talent...stop reading this review and check out 'Killian & The Comeback Kids.”
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