Brown Paper Bag

Brown Paper Bag

93 mins | Drama | Feb. 14, 2020

The year is 1942, and Archie Glass Is trying to get into Hollywood. His chance comes as he is offered a job: Find a young white movie star before the press reports that she is missing and he will have a shot at his Hollywood dream. Thus begins a journey into a Los Angeles you have never seen before, the actors who play the maids, the busboys, the background actors in jungle films, all spring into the foreground in this dramatic noir about a man willing to do anything to make his dream come true. Archie searches the back alley of Hollywood and discovers more lies than truth. Ultimately he finds the woman he is looking for and the dark reality of being a black man in tinsel town.

Brown Paper Bag

93 mins | Drama | Feb. 14, 2020

Brown Paper Bag
The year is 1942, and Archie Glass Is trying to get into Hollywood. His chance comes as he is offered a job: Find a young white movie star before the press reports that she is missing and he will have a shot at his Hollywood dream. Thus begins a journey into a Los Angeles you have never seen before, the actors who play the maids, the busboys, the background actors in jungle films, all spring into the foreground in this dramatic noir about a man willing to do anything to make his dream come true. Archie searches the back alley of Hollywood and discovers more lies than truth. Ultimately he finds the woman he is looking for and the dark reality of being a black man in tinsel town.
IMDb rating 5.4
Producers Knuckle Sandwich Productions
Original title Brown Paper Bag
Directors Detdrich McClure
Writers Detdrich McClure

Cast

Rasheed Stephens

as Archie Glass

Tiara Parker

as Sandra

Caesar James

as Wingate

Antonio D. Charity

as Blackie Philips

Vivia E. Armstrong

as Nadine

Suzan Brittan

as Script Supervisor

Preston Bruner

as Nathan

Amanda Holquin

as Mona

Craig Balog

as Cowboy

Aaron Bell

as Guy Getting Arrested 2

Ashley Akins

as Blonde in Diner

Blake Burns

as Gladiator / Angry Crew

Andrew Calderon

as Lenore's Husband

Claudia Camarena

as Woman in Bed

James Cobb

as Jimmy Stance

Darin Craddolph

as Kidnapper #2

Chris Gardner

as Drunk Man

Scott D. Gold

as O'Neal