If you want a primer on the frustrations of Hollywood filmmaking, just ask Tom Huckabee, who didn’t see his dream film, Carried Away, come to fruition until he returned to North Texas. The film will premiere Feb. 6, 2010 in Mississippi at the Oxford Film Festival, about 20 years after Huckabee wrote the original script.

Huckabee’s semi-autobiographical Carried Away follows a man who breaks his grandmother out of a Fort Worth nursing home and is chased cross-country by his dysfunctional family. The low-budget film is beautifully shot with a smart story that digs deeply into very human territory.  The film stars Juli Erickson, Bryan Massey, Gabriel Horn, and Mark Walters.

Huckabee worked in L.A. with his longtime pal, actor Bill Paxton, often polishing the scripts on projects that included Frailty. He also worked in quality control for Lucasfilms before returning to his hometown of Fort Worth, Texas after the deaths of his wife and mother. Briefly, Tom headed the Lone Star International Film Festival, but he knew it was time to take the big leap.

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