No. 27 Mullitt (2000) 9 of 100
Here’s a small oddity, a 22 minute short film that was produced for the Sundance Film Festival. I say 22 minutes but it’s only about 19 if you take the credits off. This film lands quite early in Shannon’s oeuvre but it did follow some big screen credits, and came after ‘Tigerland’ and just before ‘Pearl Harbour’ for the actor. He clearly didn’t let his ascending stardom get in the way of taking part in this low budget effort that sees him play a character called ‘Phil Kunz’ and has him in his pants covered in cake. The main character is Earl, who is Shannon’s flatmate. The two are down on their luck with Shannon wearing only a cardboard box to hide his modesty. Their landlord is generous about the overdue rent and gives them a whole day to find the cash or face eviction. Earl decides to cash in some of his comic based wealth but the seedy comic shop owner isn’t interested in Earl’s box of Spider-Man comics. What an idiot – there might be an ASM 129 in there! He says...