Rating: NR
Genre:
Comedy
Theatrical Release: 05/06/2005(USA
Release Date: 12/27/2005
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD5.1/DD2
Run Time: 97 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Adult Situations, Adult Humor, Profanity
Distributor/Studio: Fox Lorber
A Hole in One is set in 1950s America.
Anna (
Michelle Williams), a passive young woman living in a small town, where she is betrothed to a powerful local hoodlum,
Billy (
Meat Loaf Aday), is searching for a key to her unhappiness. Her younger brother came home from the World War II a different man, and was subjected to shock treatments in a mental hospital before his untimely death.
Dr. Harold Ashton (
Bill Raymond) has been selling his new book, intended to advance the cause of a new scientific "advancement" in psychiatric care, the transorbital lobotomy.
Ashton promotes this procedure, done with an ice pick that he keeps tucked in his vest, as a cure for all kinds of mental illness, major and minor. After witnessing
Billy commit a brutal murder,
Anna reads a
Life Magazine article on lobotomies, and soon decides that the procedure is right for her. She asks
Billy for his permission.
Billy, concerned about
Anna's ability to function, convinces
Tom (
Tim Guinee), one of his employees, to pose as a doctor so he can tell
Anna that she doesn't need a lobotomy. But when the two meet, they quickly find that they have a connection that will put their lives in imminent danger.
A Hole in One marks the feature debut of writer/director
Richard Ledes. The film had its world premiere at the
2004 Tribeca Film Festival.
~ Josh Ralske, All Movie Guide
