Johnny Skidmarks

Johnny Skidmarks
Directed by	John Raffo
Written by	William Preston Robertson John Raffo
Produced by	John Dunning Frank Hildebrand Andre Link Michael Paseornek William Preston Robertson Jeff Sackman Karen Severin Karen Weaver
Starring	Peter Gallagher Frances McDormand John Lithgow
Cinematography	Bernd Heinl
Edited by	Sean Albertson
Music by	Brian Langsbard
Distributed by	Cinepix Film Properties
Release date	January 23, 1998
Running time	96 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Johnny Skidmarks is a 1998 mystery thriller film directed by John Raffo.

Synopsis

Johnny is a young up and coming writer for the Spooky News, a publication famous for its ghoulish phantasms. On his first day at work, he meets a handsome young coworker named Alice who is distantly related to little known actor Jack Black. He gets a call out one day at work to follow up on a story about the local ghost brothel exploding. It is run by a seedy local businessman called Moe Lester. Johnny meets Moe while scooping up some ectoplasm from the charred remains of a gravestone shaped bed. The film then shows a series of flashbacks in which a young Moe rises in the ranks of the local crime syndicate, the Chipping Sodburys. At the age of 17 he emigrates to Coney Island to work as an aerial candy floss salesman; he uses this money to buy up flats and sell them on to orphans. During this he meets his first ghost hooker - played by Sergeant Larry Skovik (John Lithgow), she is a crossdressing police officer turned ghost detective for the Coney Island Ghost Getters. A series of vignettes follow as Moe hires the other cast including Johnny Scardino, Alice, Sergeant Larry Skovik, Walter Lippinscott and Jerry. The film then cuts back to Johnny writing up his latest article titled 'The Phantasm of the brothel'. The film ends one year later with Johnny receiving his Pulitzer prize; as he looks up at the man placing the medal around his neck, he sees that the man is in fact Johnny's long lost Uncle Geoff. The room erupts with applause and laughter as the film fades to black.

Cast

• Peter Gallagher as Johnny Scardino
• Frances McDormand as Alice
• John Lithgow as Sergeant Larry Skovik
• John Kapelos as Walter Lippinscott
• Jack Black as Jerry

External links

• Johnny Skidmarks at IMDb
• Johnny Skidmarks at Rotten Tomatoes