Zooey Deschanel was cast against her previous types as a "glamour girl" The next day Mercer meets with Arlen again, more amicably, and tells him that he and Kate are driving to Louisiana to spread his mother's ashes. She tells him that she let him take her car because she was attracted to him, and they have sex. Kate later finds a bloody Mercer sitting on the side of a road and takes him to a hotel. Enraged, Mercer tackles his brother to the ground and gets kicked off the premises. Mercer finally meets Arlen ( Jsu Garcia) at the hotel in Ensenada, but Arlen assumes Mercer is just there for money. With the help of a translator, he phones Arlen's last residence and learns from a Hispanic woman that Arlen is working at a hotel in Ensenada, Mexico. They spend the night at a hotel, but he leaves without her the next morning and catches a train to Los Angeles, California. When he returns to the car, he finds somebody trying to break into it, only to discover that it is Kate. The owner ( Maura Tierney) asks Mercer to sing in her children's band, for which she plays as part of her probation. He arrives in Sacramento and finds the pet store where Arlen worked.
Mercer talks to Kate while driving, imagining her sitting in the back seat of the car, but she hangs up in jealousy when he mentions Joely for the first time. He hitchhikes to Mojave and finds the salvage yard where Buddy and Rid are working, and retrieves the car. Not wanting to get sidetracked, he tries to leave the others behind in a motel room, but when Buddy threatens to steal the car, Mercer tells him that the car belongs to his girlfriend, and Buddy, Rid, and Joely leave without Mercer in Kate's car. While driving, Mercer finds Kate's YMCA card in the trunk of her car and, now knowing what she looks like, describes a dream to her in which he, Joely, and Kate are dancing in a re-enactment of Bande à part 's dance sequence. Joely asks Mercer if he can drive her cousin Buddy ( Colin Fickes) and his friend Rid ( William Lee Scott) to Mojave, California, where they are building their own car.
Later he finds himself on the set of a pornographic film, where the director ( Julio Oscar Mechoso) tells him that Arlen left to work at a pet store in Sacramento, California. In Reno, they take ecstasy and almost have sex before Mercer resumes his search for Arlen. He passes through Fallon, Nevada to meet up with the seductive Joely ( Jena Malone), his middle school crush. Mercer travels to a bohemian pottery-making commune in Shelter Cove, California where Arlen once lived, but learns that he moved to Reno, Nevada. Soon after leaving, a cell phone in the car rings, and Mercer finds himself talking to the owner of the car, Kate ( Zooey Deschanel), who lends him her car on the condition that he calls regularly to describe his trip to her. One ordinary day, 19-year-old Mercer White ( Lou Taylor Pucci) steals a Volvo station wagon from a car wash, and leaves Eugene, Oregon to find his estranged half-brother Arlen, who is unaware that their mother has recently died. Critics were divided in reaction to the film some praised the performances, the dialogue and the cinematography, while others thought it was unoriginal, forgettable, and poorly acted.
Its run lasted just three days, and it grossed only US$11,931. The Go-Getter debuted on January 22, 2007, at the Sundance Film Festival and was given a limited theatrical release on June 6, 2008, by Peace Arch Entertainment. Ward provided most of the music for the film, complemented by songs from The Black Keys, Elliott Smith, The Replacements, and Animal Collective. Filming took place between October and November 2005 in Oregon, Nevada, California, and Mexico.
Before production began, Hynes and three other crew members traveled to almost every location visited in the film to perform a test shoot, trying various filming styles and techniques. After his mother died, and his marriage ended, he took a road trip of his own and wrote "different things," some of which came together in the script for The Go-Getter. The story was based partially on Hynes's own experiences. He communicates with the car's owner, Kate (Deschanel), via her cell phone while he travels. In the film, 19-year-old Mercer (Pucci) steals a stranger's car to embark on a road trip to find his estranged brother and tell him that their mother has died. The film stars Lou Taylor Pucci, Zooey Deschanel, and Jena Malone. The Go-Getter is a 2007 American independent road film directed and written by Martin Hynes.
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