From KCRW in Santa Monica, this is The Treatment.

Welcome to The Treatment, which you can also hear at KCRW.com.

I'm Elvis Mitchell, and it's been an interesting trip for my guest writer-director Garth

Dannings to go from a big studio movie as his first film and a much loved adaptation

of Hitchhackers Guide to the Galaxy, a small and obviously very personal movie that I saw at the

Sundance Film Festival last year. Who would think you get a coming of age comedy set in the

80s out of a film titled Son of Rambo, but he managed

to do that.

Yes, it's a weird one.

It always made sense to us when we were making it, and it does to the audiences when they see it.

But I think part of the problem with it may well be that people have no idea what to expect

when they go in to see it.

I saw the movie last year, the very big screening at Sundance, and you were saying you

got the movie finished basically, right?

Oh, well, for that festival, we had, that was going to be the first time it ever screened

to the public, because we'd made this movie independently, and we'd only just finished

the print seven days before we left.

So we'd only seen it once finished,

and we weren't sure about it, because when you do the mixing stage, the final technical aspect

of the process is the sound mix, and it kind of kills any sense of joy and wonder you may

have had in your film because it's so laborious. And you lose all sense of objectivity so we were very worried about

how it would be received and then when we got to the festival I was terrified and nick as well where we

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