Back in April 2004 while I was living in New York City I was contacted by a friend of a friend of a friend (of a friend) about scoring a science fiction film he was producing. It was called THE ANTERIOR BOLUS and had been “green lit” by some studio I’d never heard of named TRI-BLING Pictures.

He gave me the script (it was originally titled "The Coma Children" and had at least ten different writers) and told me they were going for a “John Hughes meets Blade Runner” kind of thing, heard I had a keyboard, and hoped for "futuristic and ominous whooshes and hums". I was broke and intrigued (it’s possible) and got to work. Two months later the producer stopped answering my calls and vanished. Ghosted and annoyed I came very close to deleting the entire thing, but instead decided to burn it to a data disc to be placed in a Case-Logic CD wallet and promptly forgot about until very recently. The disc also had the synopsis (found below) and the poster art which I’ve retooled into what would have been the album cover. That’s about it. I think at one point Gabrielle Anwar was set to play the main protagonist, Abilene, but who knows? Hollywood is a town of liars as far as I’m concerned. A learning experience to say the least! I’m guess I'm glad I saved it. If anyone out there knows anything about what happened with this movie (or the whereabouts of one Mansfield C. Vonte) please let me know.

SYNOPSIS (property of TRI-BLING Pictures, LLC ©):

THE ANTERIOR BOLUS is an action-packed and cerebral sci-fi thriller with a pulse-pounding soundtrack that will have its viewers on the edges of their seats as they make their way through the mind-blowing and thought-provoking journey that is…THE ANTERIOR BOLUS!

Caitlin Sears (TV’s “Avenging Angel”) stars as Abilene Hunter, a young housewife and bright-eyed new mother. She has a seemingly loving husband (Lee Hightower) and a dependently wealthy father (Dante Doyle-Martin) with large stakes in a major yet mysterious corporate pharmaceutical company known as “k i n e t i k w e s t”.

Abilene’s life is thrust into chaos when her newborn baby Iris (Denice & Bernice Greenbush) inexplicably falls into a coma. All around her the aspects of her once quiet and enviable suburban existence start to melt away. As she delves deeper following a series of peculiar events, she discovers that a popular new drug (street name: ANTE) developed by her father’s company has been secretly dispersed to the unknowing American populace for non-FDA approved recreational use. The disorienting euphoria and psychedelic oblivion are popular among the Generation X set as the drug allows its user to relive memories within their own minds.

With the help of a revolutionary underground cause known as ANTI-ANTE, Abilene stumbles upon a plot detailing a top-level government experiment to illegally mine subconscious witness data for Federal prosecutions. As more and more innocent victims go into comas, living endlessly in their own pasts, she uncovers disturbing secrets causing her to question kith and kin.

Ultimately, when she realizes her daughter Iris has been given ANTE as an unwitting test subject and due to her short lifespan is re-living her own birth ad infinitum, Abilene has little choice but to take the egg-shaped pill herself, unravel the ever-present clues from her past, confront her husband's and father's nefarious ambitions and seek conclusion to the confounding enigma of…THE ANTERIOR BOLUS!

Coming soon to a theater near you!