Synopsis

With his wedding only nine days away, Wirey Spindell looks back on the experiences that shaped his uneasy attitude toward romance and commitment. Moving between adulthood and different stages of his childhood, the story explores his sexual history, adolescent obsessions, family life, and growing doubts about whether he is ready to marry.

Factoids & Trivia

• The screenplay developed from Eric Schaeffer's earlier novel, originally titled A Legend in His Own Mind, by Wirey Spindell.

• Wirey is portrayed at several ages, with different performers representing him as a child, a junior-high student, a teenager, and an adult.

• The film premiered at the Boston Film Festival on September 8, 1999, before its United States theatrical release on January 21, 2000.

• Keri Lynn Pratt made her film debut in Wirey Spindell.

• A continuity error places a sign for the Broadway musical Chicago at a Times Square Howard Johnson's scene set in 1969. The musical did not open until 1975.

• The end credits appear over close-ups of vintage basketball cards rather than conventional credit backgrounds.

• The film had a brief theatrical run and earned less than $10,000 in the United States and Canada.