Kabluey, a movie starring
Lisa Kudrow, is a comedy written and directed by Scott Prendergast, who also stars in the movie. It was filmed in Austin, Texas and produced by Jeff Balis. Other stars include the comedians Teri Garr and Chris Parnell, along with actors and actresses Christine Taylor as Betty,
Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Brad amd Chonchata Ferrel as Kathleen. Kabluey was honored at the Satellite Awards by winning a nomination for Best Actress in a musical or comedy.
Lisa Kudrow won the nomination for her role in Kabluey. The awards were presented on December 14th, 2008.
As the movie goes Scott Prendergast, as the character Salman, is going to help his brother's wife Leslie, which is the character played by
Lisa Kudrow, to care for his two nephews while his brother is in Iraq on duty. Leslie needs assistance with the boys to hang on to her job and her benefits. Salman takes a job as a mascot for a dot-com company to help make ends meet, yet the mascot has an embarrassing giant blue costume to wear. The nephews Cameron and Lincoln played by Cameron Wofford and Landon Henninger were modeled from Prendergast's real life nephews, who also appear in a scene in the movie.
The movie is rated PG-13, in color with Dolby-digital sound and is one hour and twenty-six minutes long. Music is by Roddy Bottum, cinematography is by Michael Lohmann and it is distributed by Sony Pictures and Whitewater Films production company. The movie's release dates were June 25th, 2007 at the Los Angeles Film Festival, September 27th, 2007 at the San Diego Film Festival, October 4th, 2007 at the Ojai Film Festival, October 13th, 2007 at the Austin Film Festival, October 18th, 2007 at the Hamptons International Film Festival, February 7th, 2008 at the Oxford Film Festival, March 30th, 2008 at the Florida Film Festival which was the southeast premiere and July the 4th, 2008.The release distributor is Regent Releasing. It is classified as a low budget film. The box office gross for the movie was $86,506.
