Union once again is in the cinematic spotlight.
This time, it's an independent film, “The Skeptic,” a supernatural thriller written and directed by Tennyson Bardwell and featuring actors Tim Daly, Mary-Beth Taylor, Edward Herrmann, Robert Prosky, Tom Arnold, Aida Turturro and Zoe Saldana — and Communications' very own Caroline Boardman, who has a walk-on in a classroom scene shot in the Reamer Campus Center.
“Movie-making is a miraculous process, more so, even than communications,” quips Boardman, communications specialist since 2004.
The film featuers a lawyer, played by Daly, who inherits a house, which leads to a variety of unsettling flashbacks, memories and spectral experiences. Most of the scenes were shot in and around Saratoga Springs over an eight-week period at the end of the year.
Taylor and Bardwell's first movie, “Dorian Blues,” also shot locally, was a coming-of-age story about a gay teen. It is now showing in major cities nationwide.
The movie's producers hope to submit “The Skeptic” to the January 2007 Sundance film festival. Cast and crew for “The Skeptic” totaled 60.
Union College has appeared in several films over the years, most prominently in the 1973 hit, “The Way We Were,” featuring Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford.