{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2026}} {{Infobox film | name = Team Picture | image = Team Picture film poster.jpg
| caption = Team Picture film poster | director = Kentucker Audley | producer = Brian Takats | writer = Kentucker Audley | narrator = | starring = Andrew Nenninger<br />Timothy Morton<br />Amanda Harris<br />Chellie Bowman<br />Bill Baker | music = Ben Siler<br />Kentucker Audley | cinematography = Timothy Morton | editing = Kentuker Audley | studio = Benten Films | distributor = Benten Films | released = {{Film date|2007|10|10}} | runtime = 62 minutes | country = United States | language = English | budget = | gross = }} '''''Team Picture''''' is a 2007 mumblecore drama film written and directed by filmmaker Kentucker Audley.<ref name="FM2">{{cite web |url=http://www.filmmakermagazine.com/loadandplay/2008/09/team-picture.php |title=Team Picture |last=Guerrasio |first=Jason |date=September 7, 2008 |publisher=Filmmaker Magazine |accessdate=May 29, 2009}}</ref><ref name="TF">{{cite web |url=http://thefanzine.com/articles/film/291/real_escapism-_kentucker_audley_and_team_picture |title=Real Escapism: Kentucker Audley and Team Picture |last=Pera |first=Brian |date=November 3, 2008 |publisher=The Fanzine |accessdate=May 29, 2009}}</ref> The film is a character study of a young man and his relationship with an ambitious girlfriend, his dealings with the familial and societal pressures to go to college, and his considerations of a future as a musician.<ref name="MCA">{{cite news |url=http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2007/oct/20/audleys-debut-hits-screen-with-dead-on-accuracy/ |title=Audley's debut hits screen with dead-on accuracy |last=Beifuss |first=John |date=October 20, 2007 |publisher=Memphis Commercial Appeal|accessdate=2009-05-29}}</ref><ref name="MF">{{cite news |url=http://www.memphisflyer.com/memphis/Content?oid=oid%3A35047 |title=Team Picture: Something Real |last=Herrington |first=Chris |date=October 18, 2007 |publisher=Memphis Flyer |accessdate=May 29, 2009}}</ref><ref name="MCA2">{{cite news |url=http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2007/aug/07/news-in-the-arts-elvis-film-co-stars-gathering/ |title=News in the Arts Elvis' film co-stars gathering to recall the King: Local Hero |last=Beifuss |first=John |date=August 7, 2007 |publisher=Memphis Commercial Appeal |accessdate=May 29, 2009}}</ref>
The filmmaker was named in August 2007 to ''Filmmaker Magazine'''s annual list of "25 New Faces of Independent Film".<ref name="FM">{{cite journal |title=25 New Faces of Independent Film: Kentucker Audley |journal=Filmmaker Magazine |issue=Summer 2007|url=http://www.filmmakermagazine.com/summer2007/25faces.php |accessdate=May 29, 2009}}</ref>
==Synopsis== Erik (Kentucker Audley) quits his job at his step dad's (Greg Gaston) sporting goods store, mutually breaks up with his girlfriend Jessica (Shawna Wheeler) and meets a new girl Sarah (Amanda Harris). At a crossroads he decides to travel with Sarah to Chicago. His roommate (Timothy Morton) stays in Memphis to lounge at a baby pool in the front yard and perform at coffee shops.<ref name="MCA" /><ref name="FM2" />
==Cast== *Kentucker Audley as David (as Andrew Nenninger) *Timothy Morton as Eric *Amanda Harris as Sarah *Bill Baker as David's dad *Greg Gaston as David's step dad *Chellie Bowman as Hilary *Shawna Wheeler as Jessica *Terry Hamilton as David's mom *Dana Terle as Linda *Cole Weintraub as McTyere
==Release== The film premiered at the Indie Memphis Film Festival on October 19, 2007,<ref name="MCA" /> and was released on DVD by Benten Films on August 26, 2008,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2009/01/14/no_see_dvd/|title=DVDs you should have seen in 2008, but didn't: "The Guatemalan Handshake," "The Free Will" and "Team Picture"|last=O’Hehir|first=Andrew|date=January 14, 2009|work=Salon.com|accessdate= }}</ref> containing director commentary, a new epilogue to the film, a short by Audley and deleted scenes.<ref name="FM2" />
==Critical reception== Michael Atkinson of ''Independent Film Channel'' gave a mixed review of the film, summarizing, "Charming as it is, maybe like Jayasundara's film (''The Forsaken Land''), ''Team Picture'' isn't realism but rather a heightened Beckettian void".<ref name="IFC">{{cite web |url = http://www.ifc.com/news/2008/09/the-forsaken-land-team-picture.php |title = On DVD: "The Forsaken Land," "Team Picture" |last = Atkinson |first = Michael |publisher = Independent Film Channel |accessdate = 2009-05-29 |url-status = dead |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20090312092133/http://www.ifc.com/news/2008/09/the-forsaken-land-team-picture.php |archivedate = 2009-03-12 }}</ref> John Beifuss of ''Memphis Commercial Appeal'' praised the film, writing that it was "the richest and most assured local feature in the festival", that it "may represent the most promising feature debut for a Memphis filmmaker", and that the "movie's characters and situations are so recognizable and distressingly funny that they are likely to unnerve viewers who aren't bored by the film's lack of overt drama or puzzled by its home-video esthetic".<ref name="MCA"/> Conversely, Jennifer Aldoretta of ''Technique'' panned the film as "mediocre and borderline terrible", noting only that writer and director Audley was "the only one involved who seems like he actually knew what he was doing."<ref>{{cite journal|last=Aldoretta |first=Jennifer|date=April 18, 2008|title=Indie Team Picture proves perfectly pathetic|journal=Technique|volume=93|issue=30|url=http://www.nique.net/nique/article/377|accessdate=May 20, 2009 | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080723110321/http://www.nique.net/nique/article/377 | archivedate=July 23, 2008}}</ref> Monika Bartyzel of ''Cinematical'' wrote that the film, while "not for moviegoers looking for a fast-paced, tightly written story, ''Team Picture'' does have some charm as a sort of dead-pan voyeuristic look into modern slackers."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cinematical.com/2008/08/27/dvd-peek-slacker-indifference-in-team-picture/ |title=DVD Peek: Slacker Indifference in 'Team Picture' |last=Bartyzel |first=Monika |date=August 27, 2008 |publisher=Cinematical |accessdate=May 20, 2009}}</ref> Noel Megahey of ''DVD Times'' notes an autobiographical character to the film, noting that the film's lead character is played by the writer-director himself, and compliments by writing "its simple philosophy of taking time to find enjoyment is a sound one and it’s an honest sentiment that arises naturally out of the characters".<ref name="DVDT">{{cite web |url=http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=68607 |title=Team Picture |last=Megahey |first=Noel |date=August 20, 2008 |publisher=DVD Times |accessdate=May 29, 2009}}</ref> Nick Dawson of ''Filmmaker Magazine'' commented that the film felt intimately real, writing "Nenninger's dialogue is scarily familiar, eschewing overly crafted Hollywood patter for the often comical idiosyncrasies of everyday speech."<ref name="FM2"/>
==Additional sources== *Boston Phoenix, "Notes from underground: Celebrating independents at the HFA"<ref name="BP">{{cite news |url=http://thephoenix.com/Boston/Movies/42570-Notes-from-underground/ |title=Notes from underground: Celebrating independents at the HFA |last=Keough |first=Peter |date=June 27, 2007 |publisher=Boston Phoenix |accessdate=May 29, 2009}}</ref>
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==External links== *{{IMDb title|id=1160026|title=Team Picture}} *{{rotten-tomatoes|id=team_picture|title=Team Picture}} *[http://www.bentenfilms.com/Kentucker-Audley-Team-Picture.shtml Benten Films official site] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20090312092133/http://www.ifc.com/news/2008/09/the-forsaken-land-team-picture.php Review IFC review]
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