RevoLOUtion: The Transformation of Lou Benedetti is a fictional dramedy co-written by Deer Hunter

Deer Hunter

Deer Hunter or variants can refer to:*The Deer Hunter, a 1978 film which won the Academy Award for Best Picture* The Deer Hunter , a 1979 novelization of the screenplay of the film*Deer Hunter , a series of hunting video games...

writer Quinn Redeker

Quinn Redeker

Quinn K. Redeker is an American actor and screenwriter, who is well-known for his work on soap operas.-Career:Redeker has been a screenwriter for over 30 years, with the most notable work to his name being the story writer for the 1978 film The Deer Hunter...

, with a theme by Rocky

Rocky

Rocky is a 1976 American sports drama film directed by John G. Avildsen and both written by and starring Sylvester Stallone. It tells the rags to riches American Dream story of Rocky Balboa, an uneducated but kind-hearted debt collector for a loan shark in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...

composer Bill Conti

Bill Conti

William "Bill" Conti is an American film music composer who is frequently the conductor at the Academy Awards ceremony.-Early life and career:...

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Directed, co-written by and starring Bret Carr, the film also features Burt Young

Burt Young

Burt Young is an American actor, painter and author. He is best known for his Academy Award-nominated role as Sylvester Stallone's brother-in-law and friend Paulie in the Rocky film series.-Personal life:...

, Starla Benford, Ernest Mingione

Ernest Mingione

Ernest Mingione is an American actor mainly known for portraying police officers. He has made many appearances in Third Watch between 1999 to 2000. He has appeared in shows such as Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Law & Order: Criminal Intent...

, Suzanne Didonna, Jon Jacobs and Kumar Pallana

Kumar Pallana

Kumar Valavhadas Pallana is an Indian character actor and vaudevillian.He performed on the Mickey Mouse Club as a plate spinner and juggler....

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Plot

RevoLOUtion is the fictional story of Lou, a stuttering ex-boxer

Boxing

Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...

 who can only speak normally when starting trouble protecting the Brooklyn

Brooklyn

Brooklyn is the most populous of New York City's five boroughs, with nearly 2.6 million residents, and the second-largest in area. Since 1896, Brooklyn has had the same boundaries as Kings County, which is now the most populous county in New York State and the second-most densely populated...

 neighborhood in which he lives. Lou transforms from violent, extreme stutterer into a great, powerful communicator.

Production & release

Carr has shot additional scenes for the film every to two years since 1996, and having been rejected 5 years in a row from major film festivals, he eventually won or was nominated for Jury Prize and/or special distinctions at 14 of the top festivals such as Best Picture at Mailbu Film Festival, Best Picture at San Francisco World Film Festival, Jury Prize Nomination at Slamdance Film Festival

Slamdance Film Festival

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 and others.

Quoting from Awareness Magazine, "the viewer so identifies with Carr's Oscar Caliber performance, that they are taken on a near death psychological journey with "Lou", and come out having had their own awakening."

Intent on reaching a wider audience, Vividas

Vividas

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, the technology partners behind the documentary The Secret

The Secret

A secret is information kept hidden. Secret or The Secret may also refer to:-Music:* Secret , a South Korean girl group* Il segreto di Susanna; or Suzanna's Secret, one-act opera by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari...

made RevoLOUtion their first dramatic film to be streamed online.