Anybody sitting at a sidewalk cafe in Santa Monica with one eye on the movie business knows the last thing you want to do is invest in a movie written and directed by your business partner?s son. So Jim Hirsch, who has made a career in Hollywood out of not following the rules, did just that.
Hirsch, 65, a 1969 UW-Madison graduate, will be in town this weekend ? he teaches a screenwriting class at UW every fall ? but the date he’s really watching is Oct. 19, when his new film, “Least Among Saints,” is scheduled to open at the AMC Star theater in Fitchburg. It premieres in Los Angeles and New York City a week earlier.