{"id":22360,"date":"2024-03-07T23:37:11","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T04:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=22360"},"modified":"2024-03-09T10:05:55","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T15:05:55","slug":"accidental-texan-exclusive-interview-with-director-mark-bristol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=22360","title":{"rendered":"Accidental Texan : Exclusive Interview with Director Mark Bristol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">\u00a9Created by Anont Chinskul<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCHJXaNHan3UWwwUKozSB2BQ\">Check out more of our video interviews on our YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> : Fresh-faced recent Harvard student Erwin (Rudy Pankow) flames out of his first professional acting job when he forgets to turn off his phone and triggers an explosive nightmare on set. His career and cell phone in tatters, he flees the New Orleans set, only to have his car break down deep in the heart of Texas oil country. Seeking refuge and some possible phone service in a local diner, he meets Faye (<a href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?s=Carrie-Anne+Moss\">Carrie-Anne Moss<\/a>), a kind waitress who takes pity on him and offers up the local phone book to find a mechanic. Without enough funds to fix his car, Erwin accepts an offer from Merle, a local oil driller (<a href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?s=Thomas+Haden+Church\">Thomas Haden Church<\/a>) only to find out he too is nearly bankrupt and cannot pay his bills. With both men in desperate straits, Merle realizes their only hope may be Erwin&#8217;s acting skills and a little help from Faye&#8217;s shotgun.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rating<\/strong>: PG-13 (Brief Violence|Strong Language)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Genre<\/strong>: Comedy, Drama<\/p>\n<p><strong>Original Language<\/strong>: English<\/p>\n<p><strong>Director<\/strong>: Mark Bristol<\/p>\n<p><strong>Producer<\/strong>: Julie B. Denny, Melissa Kirkendall, Koen Wooten, Mark Bristol Writer: Julie B. Denny<\/p>\n<p><strong> Release Date (Theaters)<\/strong>: Mar 8, 2024 Wide<\/p>\n<p><strong>Runtime<\/strong>: 1h 44m<\/p>\n<p><strong>Distributor<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Roadside_Attractions\">Roadside Attractions<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22362 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/accidental-texan-poster.png\" alt=\"accidental texan\" width=\"640\" height=\"940\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/accidental-texan-poster.png 640w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/accidental-texan-poster-204x300.png 204w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s the trailer of the film.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"x5DsR8S2ppc\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Accidental Texan | Official Trailer | Only In Theaters March 8\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x5DsR8S2ppc?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a9Created by Anont Chinskul Check out more of our video interviews on our YouTube channel. Synopsis : Fresh-faced recent Harvard student Erwin (Rudy Pankow) flames out of his first professional acting job when he forgets to turn off his phone and triggers an explosive nightmare on set. His career and cell phone in tatters, he&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":22391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[20948,20950,20954,9830,3966,20951,10632,18101,20953,20949,20952,9517],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Accidental Texan : Exclusive Interview with Director Mark Bristol<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Accidental Texan : Erwin finds himself stranded in Texas, where he&#039;s taken under the wing of a nearly bankrupt oil driller Merle.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=22360\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta 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