Dear J is a 2008 Independent Film

Independent film

An independent film, or indie film, is a professional film production resulting in a feature film that is produced mostly or completely outside of the major film studio system. In addition to being produced and distributed by independent entertainment companies, independent films are also produced...

 drama by CubeCity Entertainment

CubeCity Entertainment

CubeCity Entertainment, Inc. is an independent film and theatre production company, based in New York.-History of CubeCity:CubeCity Entertainment was founded by Roberto Munoz. Originally located in the Niagara Peninsula in Ontario, Canada, it was called called P.M. Productions...

. Directed by Roberto Munoz

Roberto Muñoz (producer)

Roberto Munoz is a Producer, Director, and Screenwriter. He founded and is president of the not-for-profit New York based CubeCity Entertainment, Inc. He is one of the writing team members that writes under the name R.M.M. Munoz.-Early life:...

 and Mann Munoz. The film is the story of an evangelist who admits himself to a psychiatric institution after the death of his agnostic girlfriend.

Plot

Dear J is about an evangelist, James Jamisin (Joseph Halsey), who must cope with the unexpected death of his agnostic girlfriend: Paige (Maya Serhan). To sort things out, James admits himself into Logous Psychiatric Institute, where he replays a make-believe Trial in his mind over and over again. The Trial is presided over by a no-nonsense imaginary Judge (played by Karen Lynn Gorney

Karen Lynn Gorney

Karen Lynn Gorney is an American actress, known for her roles on television and film.-Early life:Gorney was born in Beverly Hills, California. She is the daughter of 20th-century composer Jay Gorney, who wrote the music for what many consider the definitive song about America's Great Depression,...

) and is animated by an array of off-the-wall characters. Some of the witnesses called to the stand are inspired by real-life individuals, like the literary scholar and apologist C.S. Lewis (Patrick Mitchell). Throughout the movie, his psychologist, Dr. Frolick (Allison Lane) tries to get him to open the letter Paige wrote to him just before her death—a letter he has been carrying around and refuses to read. Trouble brews when the head of the institute, Dr. Donovin (Carson Grant

Carson Grant

Carson Grant is an American actor and artist from the United States. Grant has created characters and stories in visual mediums as drawings, paintings, in films and on stage.-Early years in Rhode Island:1950s...

), plans on foiling all attempts to bring James to a resolution.

Production notes

Formerly entitled Liars and Lunatics, the movie was released on DVD as Dear J in 2008. The movie was filmed in 2006 in Whitestone

Whitestone, Queens

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, Queens

Queens

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, and also in Putnam County

Putnam County, New York

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, New York

New York

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.

The Dove Foundation

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rightThe Dove Foundation is a registered United States tax deductible non-profit organization based in Grand Rapids, Michigan known among other programs for its activities of rating, reviewing and endorsing films and for campaigning against the portrayal of sexual activity and violence in Hollywood...

 gave the movie four doves and its seal of approval (recommended for ages 12 and over). Author and historian, Dr. Paul Maier

Paul Maier

Paul L. Maier was the Russell H. Seibert Professor of Ancient History at Western Michigan University. Dr. Maier retired in the Spring of 2011. He retains the title of professor emeritus in the Department of History at Western Michigan University...

, said of the film: "I thoroughly enjoyed the film... I was blown away by the sheer professionalism of it all: the characters were convincing, the plot nicely paced."

Cast

• Joseph A. Halsey as James Jamisin
• Allison Lane as Dr. M. Frolick
• Carson Grant
  Carson Grant
  Carson Grant is an American actor and artist from the United States. Grant has created characters and stories in visual mediums as drawings, paintings, in films and on stage.-Early years in Rhode Island:1950s...
  
   as Dr. Donovin
• Maya Serhan as Paige
• Patrick Mitchell as Staples
• Karen Lynn Gorney
  Karen Lynn Gorney
  Karen Lynn Gorney is an American actress, known for her roles on television and film.-Early life:Gorney was born in Beverly Hills, California. She is the daughter of 20th-century composer Jay Gorney, who wrote the music for what many consider the definitive song about America's Great Depression,...
  
  as the Judge
• Amanda Michelle Short as Avie
• Hudson Chambers as Davie
• Bruce Nicholls as Philosopher Hume
• Heidi Azaro as Mother Parrot
• Ron Kuriloff as Prof. Boltmaniac