Wednesday finally saw the beginning of our ticket package, which will provide us tickets to 10 films and access to other festival venues. We may not be industry, but we can look the part.

Our first film of the day, "The Wackness,"  was a flashback to 1994 New York. Luke (played by Josh Peck) is a teenage drug dealer trying to work out various issues in his life before going off to college. Ben Kingsley plays his hilarious psychologist, who dishes out therapy in exchange for bags of weed. Earlier this week, we had been blissfully unaware of who Josh Peck is. At least, until we overheard some guys in line who were so star struck by him that they had to literally call everyone in their cell phone address books to tell the story of meeting him. Over the course of an hour, we had to endure long explanations of "Peck!  No, P-E-C-K. From Nickelodeon!  He's famous!" 

Unfortunately, headache-inducing exchanges like this are all too common during Sundance. It makes it easy to separate the festival novices from the rest of the jaded masses. Here is a picture of the director during the Q & A:

This article appears in Jan 23-29, 2008.