Last night, a group of 10 from my office made the trip down to Tempe’s historic Valley Art Theater - yes, historic has to be included in any mention of a theater that has stood for 67 years while all around has been converted into a driveable mall - to see “Closing Escrow” before its brief run ended at midnight.

The movie critic from The Arizona Republic said you’d need to have a thick skin if you were a real estate agent watching the film. For some that may be true. For us, we had more fun matching the film’s characters with agents we know in Mystery Science Theater 3000 style.

(Last night’s total crowd was 18 - a good night at the Valley Art not involving the Rocky Horror Picture Show - so we weren’t exactly disrupting things with our alcohol-fueled hysterical laughter.)

What was particularly interesting was the buzz indicated real estate agents were being mocked. And we were, no two ways about it. If Mr. Hide and Seek was the listing agent on a property I was showing, I’d likely punch him in the nose.

But the general public wasn’t spared either - not the buyers who often don’t know what they want in a home until they see a home that doesn’t have what they didn’t realize that they wanted, not the sellers who can’t deal with strangers touching their things. And certainly not the “this doesn’t look so hard … so I’ll just get my license” crowd.

Also interesting was attention to the smallest details which led me to believe there were either current or former real estate agents involved in the writing. (Like jimmying a lock with a credit card rather than using the lockbox before creating “forced depreciation.” All entrants on an electronic lockbox can be tracked.)

If/when Closing Escrow makes it to DVD, it’s worth the couple bucks to rent.

(picture courtesy of TempeBeach.com)

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