You know how to whistle, don’t you, Steve? You just put your lips together and… blow.
That’s a famous line from the Bogie/Bacall film classic To Have and Have Not. One that wouldn’t be out of place in Brent Butt’s new movie No Clue, a comedic homage to film noir with Butt as a bumbler who pretends to be a hard-boiled detective so that Amy Smart’s blonde bombshell will spend time with him.
No Clue took about three years to get into production in Vancouver and filmed here last fall. So it’s big. It’s local. And it will be funny. Brent Butt (Corner Gas/Hiccups) wrote the script, his production company Sparrow Media produced it and Vancouver’s own Carl Bessai (Sisters & Brothers/Fathers & Sons) directed it in some recognizable locations from Stanley Park to Finch’s Café downtown.
Related: Brent Butt & Amy Smart film No Clue downtown
No Clue premieres Thursday night (December 5th) at the Whistler Film Festival with a second screening on Saturday (December 7th).Who is manipulating whom? Take your pick — Brent Butt, Amy Smart, David Koechner, David Cubitt, Dustin Milligan, Dan Payne and Kirsten Prout are all in this whodunit.
Amy Smart talks with director Carl Bessai downtown.
