Producers: Dan Leis, Patrick M. Lynn, Leon Corcos
Screenwriter/Editor: Joe Carnahan
Director of Photography: John A. Jiminez
Music: Mark Priolo, Martin Birke
Principal cast: Joe Carnahan, Dan Leis, Dan Harlan, Hugh McChord, Ken Rudolph, Mark S. Allen.

This vividly scripted, astonishingly kinetic caper movie was produced by Short Fuse Films, a phrase that could serve as a pithy description of writer-director-actor-editor Joe Carnahan's hi-test style. Shot entirely on location in and around Sacramento, the movie follows the scheming yet clueless proprietors of Bob & Sid's Auto Emporium who agree to babysit a sought-after 1963 Pontiac LeMans convertible. "When your lemon lot hits the skids, you glom the gig no matter what the smell," writes Carnahan. "The upside: Fat Cash. The flipside: every thug, crook, and mercenary on the planet looking to get rich." Made for an astonishing $7,300, this sensational debut film evokes Mamet and Tarantino but finds a voice all its own while riding at a full tilt boogie guaranteed to leave your tank on fumes. - Eddie Cockrell