A convenience store robbery is analyzed from multiple angles in Max Allan Collins’ ambitious REAL TIME: SIEGE AT LUCAS STREET MARKET Distributed by the Troma
Team, the REAL TIME DVD package makes for quite a haul in terms of extras, boasting sev­ eral related supplements and no less than three audio commen­ taries. Collins and producer/art designer Jeff High are seen in excerpts (5m 41s) from a public television program, discussing the project’s origins and demon­ strating their shooting style with a scale model of the film’s con­ venience store; Tom Keane and Chadrick Hock are seen in their original audition videos (7m 30s); one deleted scene (3m 41s) and two alternate takes of existing scenes are thrown in for good measure. Trailers for REAL TIME consist of the final edit and an alternative cut (both 2m 15s), and there are also pre­ views of MOMMY and MOMMY 2, as well as for such Troma fare
as CITIZEN TOXIE, TERROR FIRMER and the comic oater ROWDY GIRLS (“A time of law­ less men and braless women”). A “Technical Commentary”
consists of a folksy round robin with Collins and his crew, during which they discuss their director’s budgetary philosophy (“ If any­ thing costs anything, it costs too much”) and identify Muscatine, Iowa as “ the Mountain Dew Capitol of the world” ; actors Brinke Stevens and Larry Coven (the Second City alumnus de­ livers the film’s most honest performance, as the Lucas Street Market’s jittery co-owner) share the microphone for the “Actor’s Commentary,” and Max Allan Collins goes it alone for the effusive “Director’s Commen­ tary.” Collins’ original short story, “ Inconvenience Store” is pre­ sented as an audio extra (37m
16s), and a story from the writer’s MS. TREE comic book is also pro­ vided (although most players will not be able to zoom into the text, and so this supplement is best appreciated for its artwork). Finally, Collins has provided
an extra version of the film that allows the viewer to toggle back and forth (using their players’ “Angle” feature) between the multiple screens, for closer in­ spection of scenes and view­ points kept at a distance in the film’s intended cut. Collins and Troma is to be commended for giving consumers considerable bang for their bucks with this disc, though it is unlikely that many viewers will be s u f f i­ ciently inspired to watch REAL TIME as many times as it would require to get the full yield of this generous DVD presenta­ tion. —Richard Harland Smith
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