WRONG GUYS
A tale of smugglers and survivalists, WRONG GUYS is an unfinished film adaptation of James Strahs’ neo-noir novella. It stars Willem Dafoe as Jack Straw, a small-time operator, who ran a “pharmaceutical outfit” before an accident changed everything.
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Production Credits
A film by The Wooster Group
Adapted from the short novel Wrong Guys by James Strahs
Directed by Elizabeth LeCompte
Cinematographer/Editor: Ken Kobland
Videographer/Video Effects Editor: Christopher Kondek
Music: John Lurie
With Willem Dafoe, Kate Valk, Peyton Smith, Dave Shelley, Anna Köhler, James Hannaham, Scott Renderer, DANCENOISE
And Jim Findlay, James ‘J.J.’ Johnson, Juliet Lashinsky-Revene, James Later, Bob McAllister, Alexandra Paxton, Tory Vazquez
Text Editor: Kate Valk
Sound Editor: John Collins
Production Manager: Peyton Smith
Assistant Director: Clay Hapaz
Sound Recordists: James ‘J.J.’ Johnson, John Collins
Technical Directors: Jim Findlay, Jim Clayburgh
Camera Assistants: T.J. Dorosh, Victoria Ford
Key Grips: Eric Dyer, Georg Bugiel
Titles: Philip Bussmann
Crew: Rebecca Barron, Jim Burnham, Philip Bussmann, Anouk DeClerk, Rolf Heim, Shaun Irons, Karen Lashinsky, Alexandra Paxton, Enar Tarmo, Tory Vazquez
Special thanks to Larry Revene Films, Courtney Harmel/Flying Woman Productions, Harmonic Ranch, No Theatre/Roy Faudree, The Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities New Works Program
Production History
2025 February 11 & 23: Screening as part of the film series “Wild at Heart: Willem Dafoe” at Anthology Film Archives, New York City
2023 April 23: Screening at Festival Internationale Neue Dramatik, Schaubühne, Berlin, Germany
1998 February 1: Screening at Cine Mart, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
1997 September: Screenings at the Independent Feature Film Market, New York City
1995 December 11: Work-in-progress screening and reading by Jim Strahs at Mattew Marks Gallery, New York City
