The premiere film from Desperation Productions.  A four-year project that was begun by Dr. Henry Diers who, at the time, was the Dean of Fine Arts and Communications at Susquehanna University.

The original story was by Robert S. Brown, a student at the University.  The feature-length screenplay was written and completed by several University students including Brown.

'A Tip for the Pizzaman' is a film that follows the antics of Paul Dixon, a friendly pizza delivery man who has a slew of strange people he has to deliver pizzas to, a boss who prays to his dead father, and a curse of sorts that prevents him from ever getting a tip.

Paul has a future rock'n'roller for a roommate, a Mrs. Howell-esque mother who is always trying to set him up with women, a Senatorial candidate for a father, an ex-girlfriend who has joined a nature cult, and a crush on a woman who has an overbearing fiance.

The film is more or less a romantic comedy/drama as Paul finds himself in awkward situations with his customers and with his female interest, and his boss desperately tries to hang onto a business he built from the ground up.

'A Tip for the Pizzaman' is a much more complex story than the very brief synopsis provided.  If you'd like to know more, e-mail me.

The film suffered a number of setbacks.  Writer's block was a common thing, but some of the major setbacks were the departure of Dr. Diers to Florida Gulf Coast University, quite the distance from Central Pennsylvania, the fact that none of the three key people involved (Brown, J. Tom Hnatow, and Michael S. Krcil) had ever made a film before, and Krcil's impending graduation!

The solutions?  Shorten the script and wing it!

And that's what they did.  'A Tip for the Pizzaman' became a 25-minute film, recorded on VHS cassettes using ordinary video cameras.  On-location shoots included a street faire in Selinsgrove, PA, and another fair in Bloomsburg, PA.

The status of the film is incomplete, as the feature-length has yet to be made, but the script and the short film are under a government copyright (1998).

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