Woman Sues FilmDistrict, Claims Not Enough Driving in Movie Entitled Drive.
October 10, 2011 | Media
NY Daily News – A movie titled “Drive” should be about, well, driving.
But the Ryan Gosling thriller was not what one Michigan woman expected when she bought a ticket to see it — so she’s suing.
Sarah Deming is going after the distributor of “Drive,” FilmDistrict, as well as the theater where she saw it, because she had been under the impression the film would be a “Fast and Furious”-style action flick.
In Deming’s suit, which she filed in the sixth judicial circuit court in Oakland, she claims the Nicolas Winding Refn thriller about a Hollywood stuntman-turned getaway driver “bore very little similarity to a chase, or race action film … having very little driving in the motion picture.”
But what “Drive” did have lots of, according to Deming, is anti-semitism.
The Law Insider would like to take this opportunity to remind everyone that just because you can sue for something, doesn’t mean it’s necessarily worth your time or money to do so. Demin will need to prove, among other things, that the distributors of Drive were intentionally misleading in not only how they titled the movie, but how they portrayed the movie during its promotion. There’s also the question of damages. It’s unlikely that Demin will be able to prove damages beyond the cost of the ticket (which the theatre has already offered to refund). So the question must be raised, what does Demin seek from her efforts– if not a cause to occupy her time?
