A Good Excuse

Lacking only a limousine and chauffeur to complete the look, Kane Kuntz ’11 skipped his Friday classes one day in April to attend the premier of his new romantic comedy, The Frankenstein Brothers, at the International Beverly Hills (California) Film Festival. The film was among the nominees at a black-tie awards ceremony. “One day I was watching it snow in Hanover, and the next I was playing volleyball on Venice Beach with my brother and co-star/producer Cru Ennis,” says Kuntz, a philosophy and economics major from Wheat Ridge, Colorado. Co-written with his brother Lee Roy Kuntz, who dropped out of USC film school to use his tuition money for funding, the coming-of-age story follows twin brothers who inherit the quintessential Dartmouth business—a family brewery. “Though the script started out as quasi-autobiographical, that soon changed,” says Kuntz. “Dartmouth’s culture didn’t really inspire any of it, but I can easily see how people might think otherwise.” With several pilots already written, he hopes to eventually pursue a career in television and film.

Next year, the Inn should look like this.