A young man who likes to Rollerblade must face the fact that the documentary about ants his father is making might is driving his father insane. This is one third of the anthology film AFTER SCHOOL SPECIALS, included on the DVD of Giuseppe Andrews's TOUCH ME IN THE MORNING.
During the casting process, the film makers went to different New England private schools, mostly in Massachusetts, looking for a student to play Max Fisher. One of the main filming locations was Wes Anderson's former high school, St. John's School, in Houston, Texas. He hired some of the students from the school to play extras and even some major speaking roles. In the scene where Ms. Cross and Max feed the fish and talk about deaths of loved ones, Jason Schwartzman (Max) had to stand on ...[Read Story ]