Auteur Watch - Shashawnee Hall

Now, HERE's a denizen of Hollywood who knows where the bodies are buried!  Everyone wants to direct, but most are content to drive in their proverbial lane, so to speak.  In the case of Shashawnee Hall, he's an actor-turned-director-turned RIGHT BACK into actor.  He seems to tend to play characters without names, like Cop #1 in the first Nightmare on Elm Street, and so on.  As of this writing, according to his IMDb Top 4, his big role is "Camera Operator" in Bruce Almighty.  I'm assuming it's the big scene where Jim Carrey briefly takes control of Steve Carell's mouth.  And it was exactly this type of Hollywood inside know-how that led him to his one-time directorial effort called... hoh boy... it's called Big Ball'n... I'm sorry, that should be "Big Ball'n."  Apparently, it's a direct-to-video effort, but it's got the PG-13 rating, in case families are worried about its content.
Now before you go and get all judgmental on me, let's just look at the plot description.  It says, "Two thirty-something brothers finally make it to law school. When their father's tuition check bounces they turn drug dealers to make up the difference."  ...I'm going to try and stay positive here, and just assume they meant that "they turn drug dealers IN TO THE POLICE FOR REWARD MONEY" to make up the difference.
That being said, the script was co-written by Todd Bridges.  Now, for those of you who don't know, he was a child actor on "Diff'rent Strokes" and others, and well... let's just say he's had a few, um... interactions with law enforcement over the years.  You can get all the dirt at Wikipedia, of course... worse than Us Magazine.  Well, you know how it is.  Some people talk to psychiatrists to deal with their problems, while others tend to deal with the various branches of law enforcement directly.  In Hollywood, that can be a plus.  Take Jack Nicholson and the time he beat the sh... oe leather out of a guy's car with a golf club.  How come he doesn't have to go to jail?
...did I get off track again?  I think I did.  So, to sum up... Shashawnee Hall's one directorial effort to date is called "Big Ball'n: Free Da Bunny."  It's on video, and it's rated PG-13... despite what the cover of the DVD looks like.  Perfectly suitable for family viewing.  After all, that's sort of how you start a family, right?