“Frankie, must maintain her position of control when her dangerous ex-boyfriend, Lucas, returns and invades her home requesting a place to stay. When Lucas meets his daughter, Alice, for the first time he begins to see much of himself in her personality, challenging Frankie’s role as a mother.”
Big Bad from James Abrams on Vimeo.
This is the fourth short film I have worked with director James Abrams and probably the second or third of about five I ended up doing with Tyler—often, the daughter I never had. In the local movie making scene, I was one of several of her frequent fathers.
Jessica Bell played Frankie. She was my ex-wife a couple of times. Soon after this, her re-enactment performance as Aileen Wuornos for Snapped landed her the thumbnail for the show’s entire mini-series special Notorious, and I think she’s been solidly working since.
