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Production List
Below are all of the productions we have started up until the summer of 1999. This portion of the site is undergoing major renovation, and will be updated with the release of the new design shortly.
A Few Good Twerps
- Media Type: Movie (8mm/VHS) - Comedy
- Status: Post Production
- Start Date: April 1993
- Completion Date: August 1993
- Director: Tomich
- Producers: Bakalarski, Tomich
- Principal Cast: C. Bakalarski, Matt Tomich, Mike Tomich
- Plot Summary:
Murders and mayhem abound in this satirical takeoff on the movie A Few Good Men
- Comments:
This was one of our first films, and Matt's first idea that made it big.
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BPTV Regatta Special
- Media Type: Television (SVHS)
- Status: Completed
- Start Date: August 1997
- Completion Date: August 1997
- Director: Burke
- Producers: Burke, Bakalarski
- Principal Cast: Burke, Bakalarski, Ruch
- Plot Summary:
BPTV goes mobile to find the REAL inside story on the Pittsburgh Regatta.
- Comments:
Matt was originally supposed to be the host of the special. Unfortunately, he was being detained by the Jefferson Boro Police at the time.
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The Difference
- Media Type: Movie (3/4) - Drama
- Status: In Production
- Start Date: August 1997
- Completion Date:
- Director: Bakalarski
- Producers: Bakalarski, Tomich
- Principal Cast: Wojton, Cifrulak, Tomich, Lee
- Plot Summary:
Jake's life was leading nowhere. Until he met his high school sweetheart and realizes that sometimes the only difference is the one that is made inside your own self.
- Comments:
One of our Big Concept films, it might have been a little too big. 281 shots are required for completion of this film.
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Disco Dan
- Media Type: Movie (VHS) - Comedy
- Status: Completed
- Start Date: August 1995
- Completion Date: August 1995
- Director: Bakalarski
- Producers: Bakalarski, Tomich
- Principal Cast: Bakalarski, Tomich
- Plot Summary:
Disco Dan Rostenkowski had been placed into a coma late in 1978. And now he just woke up, and wants his old life back. However, there are a couple of obstacles in the way...
- Comments:
This was our first completed full length film. It actually has a plot too.
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Eternal Summer
- Media Type: Movie - Drama
- Status: Scripting
- Start Date: July 1995
- Completion Date:
- Director: Bakalarski
- Producers: Bakalarski, Tomich
- Principal Cast:
- Plot Summary:
This was the original New England idea, way before Dawson's Creek was even a twinkle in Kevin Williamson's eye. It focuses upon a romance that develops between a girl and a boy who has to spend the summer there. Good ending.
- Comments:
Thought up by Corey on the way back from a Mystic Connecticut.
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Idiot Summer
- Media Type: Movie (8mm / 3/4 / SVHS / VHS) - Comedy
- Status: Completed
- Start Date: April 1997
- Completion Date: July 1997
- Director: Bakalarski
- Producers: Bakalarski, Tomich
- Principal Cast: Bakalarski, Tomich, Caligiuri, Lee, Potts, Haley, Perry, Griger, Berman
- Plot Summary:
Hichmont's first big film, this follows 4 friends and their last summer before college.
- Comments:
Step two of our three step plan to making a kick-ass movie. Also the first movie we made where it was more than just Matt and I and our families.
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Idiot Summer II
- Media Type: Movie (8mm) - Comedy
- Status: In Production
- Start Date: August 1998
- Completion Date:
- Director: Bakalarski
- Producers: Bakalarski, Tomich
- Principal Cast: Bakalarski, Tomich, Lee, Berman, Griger, Greenwald, Hollinger
- Plot Summary:
The sequel to the successful Idiot Summer finds the crew (with a couple changes) searching for the elusive Becky in a quest to reunite their friends.
- Comments:
Still in production, after incredible time constraints this summer.
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Losing The Innocent
- Media Type: Movie - Drama
- Status: Awaiting Storyboards & Casting
- Start Date: May 1999
- Completion Date:
- Director: Bakalarski
- Producers: Bakalarski, Hawkins, Hollinger
- Principal Cast:
- Plot Summary:
Jeff and Sarah are the perfect couple -- until she dies tragically in a car accident three days before she graduates from high school. Jeff tries to move on - until he is confronted by the truth about that one fateful night - by his ex-girlfriend.
- Comments:
Taking our time on this one.
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MBA Big Event
- Media Type: Contracted Video (SVHS)
- Status: Completed
- Start Date: February 1998
- Completion Date: February 1998
- Director: Bakalarski / Tomich
- Producers: Bakalarski / Tomich
- Principal Crew: Bakalarski, Tomich, Hollinger, Berman, Lee
- Plot Summary:
Coverage of the Metro Basketball Association's Big Event season kickoff.
- Comments:
First production Hichmont has done for hire, i.e. not our own idea.
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The MC Show
- Media Type: Video (VHS)
- Status: Completed
- Start Date: Various; First was August 1992
- Completion Date: Various; Last was June 1996
- Director: Bakalarski / Tomich
- Producers: Bakalarski, Tomich
- Principal Cast: C. Bakalarski, B. Bakalarski, Matt Tomich, Mike Tomich
- Plot Summary:
A variety show, taking on a variety of forms. There were 4 shows total.
- Comments:
These were the original, first productions under the Hichmont name. Some day when Matt and I are famous, I will keep a close eye on the only copy, since it is really funny, but mostly just to look at us.
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Meeting Destiny
- Media Type: Movie - Drama
- Status: Idea
- Start Date: August 1998
- Completion Date:
- Director: Bakalarski
- Producers: Bakalarski, Tomich
- Principal Cast:
- Plot Summary:
Meeting Destiny follows the trials of two people whose only wish is to find happiness in love, and what happens when the one knows that the lover she finds happiness in is happier with another.
- Comments:
Another one of Corey's on vacation, on the road, bored to death, let's come up with an awesome movie idea ideas.
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Midnite Madness
- Media Type: Television (3/4)
- Status: Completed
- Start Date: First Run: October 17, 1997
- Completion Date: Last Run: December 21, 1997
- Director: Bakalarski
- Producers: Bakalarski, Tomich
- Principal Cast: Tomich, Caligiuri
- Plot Summary:
The first of a the Hichmont television shows on BPTV. This one was live at midnight on Saturday nights.
- Comments:
Ended with a walkout of the cast on an overburdened crew. Attributed to poor planning and poor communication. Not exactly a bright point in Hichmont's history. But overlooking that, Hichmont's first trial at series television was a resounding success.
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Mr. Ouija
- Media Type: Movie - Action
- Status: Scripting (Hiatus)
- Start Date: August 1996
- Completion Date:
- Director: Bakalarski / Tomich
- Producers: Bakalarski, Tomich
- Principal Cast:
- Plot Summary:
Two brothers come into a lot of dirty money and run when the owner comes to claim it.
- Comments:
Way to vulgar of a film for our young näive age.
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Not Quite Midnight Madness
- Media Type: Television (3/4)
- Status: Completed
- Start Date: First Run on March 1, 1998
- Completion Date: On hiatus; last completed episode aired April 20,1998
- Director: Bakalarski
- Producers: Bakalarski, Hollinger, Lee
- Principal Cast: Berman, Handshue
- Plot Summary:
Half hour of Jason Berman screwing around, which proved to be funny.
- Comments:
The second incarnation of the Hichmont television serials. We took what we did wrong in Midnight Madness and changed it, and it worked well. However, we stopped when we started working full time on the Difference. And then we all went to college.
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Searching For An Angel
- Media Type: Movie - Drama / Action
- Status: Scripting
- Start Date: October 1996
- Completion Date:
- Director: Bakalarski
- Producers: Bakalarski
- Principal Cast:
- Plot Summary:
Think Romeo & Juliet meets The Crow, with just a pinch of A Tale Of Two Cities. Seriously. In the near future, two lovers find their fates are incompatible, and their friend, who gives them both the most precious gift of all.
- Comments:
This story has been in my mind constantly since its inception. The problem with it is that I want to do it right, and as of current I don't think my filmmaking skills can do it justice. In a sense, it's ahead of its time. I think this is the best idea I've ever come up with. This is the one.
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Special Brew
- Media Type: Movie - Comedy
- Status: Idea / Scripting
- Start Date: January 1999
- Completion Date:
- Director: Bakalarski / Tomich
- Producers: Bakalarski, Tomich
- Principal Cast:
- Plot Summary:
It's the last night of finals and the partying is going on. However, one lonely soul has to study for the make it or break it final and does so, until his true love walks into the party.
- Comments:
This one is our newest production. Join Us!
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SupRadio
- Media Type: Radio
- Status: Currently In Production
- Start Date: October 1998
- Completion Date:
- Director: Bakalarski
- Producers: Bakalarski, Drake, Thompson, Foy
- Principal Cast: Foy, Thompson, Drake, Bakalarski
- Plot Summary:
Hichmont's first foray into radio has proven to be a success. A wacky cast combined with the freedom to do whatever they want makes this one of the most unpredictable 2 hours you'll ever spend.
- Comments:
A Quality Show. It gets my seal of approval, although I owe a huge debt to my co-castmembers, who have made the show what it is today. I don't thank you guys enough.
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The Twilight Machine
- Media Type: Contacted Video
- Status: Completed
- Start Date: November 1998
- Completion Date: November 1998
- Director: Bakalarski
- Producers: Bakalarski, Tomich, Hollinger
- Principal Cast: Twilight Machine
- Plot Summary:
Coverage for the local band The Twilight Machine at Graffiti
- Comments:
Next time, bring a flashlight! Also, one of the chips in one of the cameras was bad, so it made for some interesting on the fly editing.
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Utopia
- Media Type: Movie - Drama
- Status: Scripting
- Start Date: July 1995?
- Completion Date:
- Director: Tomich
- Producers: Tomich, Bakalarski
- Principal Cast:
- Plot Summary:
Nuclear war has destroyed the earth. A new government results, with one man ruling, under the guise of peace. But deep within a detention camp is a man who knows that the peace is being carried out under the threat of nuclear warfare. And only this man can stop it.
- Comments:
Another one of our big concept films, (like Searching..) this one is quite elaborate and just as good as Searching. It is stalled in production for all of the same reasons.
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Whacked
- Media Type: Movie - Comedy
- Status: Idea
- Start Date: September 1996
- Completion Date:
- Director: Bakalarski, Tomich
- Producers: Bakalarski, Tomich
- Principal Cast:
- Plot Summary:
The autobiographical story of Hichmont Productions, and all of the fun inside.
- Comments:
Since Hichmont is still growing, we don't know when to stop!
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Without You (1995)
- Media Type: Movie - Drama
- Status: Idea
- Start Date: September 1995
- Completion Date:
- Director: Bakalarski
- Producers: Bakalarski, Tomich
- Principal Cast:
- Plot Summary:
The plot to this is so old I've almost forgotten it. Basically it's about this girl whose life is basically terrible and the boy who tries to show her the way out. I think.
- Comments:
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Without You (1998)
- Media Type: Movie - Drama
- Status: Scripting
- Start Date: September 1998
- Completion Date:
- Director: Bakalarski
- Producers: Bakalarski, Tomich
- Principal Cast:
- Plot Summary:
What happens when a girl's boyfriend's alcoholic tendencies go too far, and how her best friend tries to help her realize it... before it's too late.
- Comments:
Still in production, we plan to resume this after Special Brew.
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The Woods
- Media Type: Movie - Drama
- Status: Awaiting Production
- Start Date: January 1994
- Completion Date:
- Director: Bakalarski
- Producers: Bakalarski, Tomich
- Principal Cast: Bakalarski, Tomich, et al.
- Plot Summary:
Three friends take a hiking trip into the woods. However, they learn how hard to it is to hike back out.... and only two of them live to tell about it.
- Comments:
Corey's first full length script. A good idea, and a remarkable accomplishment considering my experience at the time. I keep thinking I'd like to shoot it but I think I'd end up rewriting it first.
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