| Misfire: The Rise and Fall of the Shooting Gallery | |
| Director: | Whitney Ransick |
| Producer: | Gil Gilbert Bob Gosse Whitney Ransick |
| Starring: | Robin Tunney Ray Angelic Miguel Arteta |
| Music: | Sam Bisbee Dave Thomas Junior |
| Editing: | Gil Gilbert |
| Distributor: | TSG Documentary, Inc. |
| Runtime: | 78 minutes |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
Misfire: The Rise and Fall of the Shooting Gallery is a 2013 documentary about the American independent film distributor The Shooting Gallery, directed by Whitney Ransick. The film had its world premiere on October 11, 2013 at the Hamptons International Film Festival.[1] [2]
The documentary looks at the independent film distribution company The Shooting Gallery, which experienced a rise in popularity due to their distribution of films like You Can Count on Me and Laws of Gravity. Ransick looks at the company starting with their start in the early nineties to their crash in later years.
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Indiewire gave a favorable review of Misfire: The Rise and Fall of the Shooting Gallery, writing that "What makes “Misfire” so powerful is that it isn’t just the story of the Shooting Gallery — which is tragic but one that doesn’t resonate all that well today because their output was often iffy and unmemorable — but the story of independent cinema of that period."[3] The Hollywood Reporter and Grolsch Film Works were more mixed in their reviews and The Hollywood Reporter commented that "Gosse comes across sympathetically, and the film captures the shock of the company's 2001 collapse. But the "rise and fall" chronology is thinner than it should be, leaving us to marvel at the train wreck without exposing anything new about its causes."[4] [5]