I watched Knox Goes Away, starring & directed by Michael Keaton and with a small but critical role by Al Pacino.
It's an excellent, twisting dark drama streaming on (HBO's) Max.
8/10
As I got to the words "thrift store," I was thinking, "you didn't need an actual thrift store, right?"
3 cheers for living rooms in indie filmmaking :)
For the nickel it's (not) worth: make a movie NOW that's as good as you can make it, given whatever your limitations are (story, budget, cast, whatever). Then put it out in the world in whatever ways are available: YouTube, other streamers (there's plenty available these days for very low budget...
What, exactly, would that entail? I'm not trying to be a wise ass, but mean it as a serious question.
Does that mean that (a) the movie earns X times its budget, whatever X is to you or (b) it's widely lauded by viewers and/or critics or (c) something else?