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| Mel (Mark Potts )and Sal (Cole Selix) in S&M Lawn Care. |
By Don Simpson
Sal (Cole Selix) and Mel (Mark Potts) run S&M Lawn Care. Mel mows lawns because lawn care is in his blood (his deceased father was once a great lawn care specialist). Sal mows lawns in order to save money to travel to the Amazon.
Everything is going as planned until one day someone starts stealing S&M’s hard-earned lawns in complete disregard of the Lawn Care Treaty of 1995. That certain someone, a sleazy jerk with long hair and goatee named Drake (William Brand Rackley), is armed with a slickly produced commercial and seductively clad female assistants. Sex sells and everyone around town is buying. Drake even donates his used lawn mowers to the “Darfurinians.” How can S&M possibly compete with that?
Drake’s company, Lawns By Drake, functions cleverly as a allegory for big budget Hollywood films (filmmakers who put style and sex over substance) while S&M Lawn Care represents the hard-working and big-hearted independent filmmakers of the world. Along those lines, S&M Lawn Care is a million times funnier than The Other Guys, Get Him to the Greek or Funny People, but it is extremely rare that an independent comedy is able to beat a Hollywood comedy in the box office. Heck it is nearly impossible for independent comedies to even have an opportunity to compete at the box office.
Besides playing the lead roles, Potts functions as director, co-writer, cinematographer and editor; Selix functions as co-writer. S&M Lawn Care is the third feature from Singletree Productions (The Stanton Family Grave Robbery and Simmons on Vinyl) which was formed in 2006 by Potts and Selix.
