NOOGIE'S
“TIME TO SHINE”
On the lam with 3.2 million in stolen twenties. And a cat.
Some of this story is mostly true.
Christmas Day, Miami
Dimwitted film noir-o-phile Ned “Noogie” Krapczak — pronounced crap-chick, not crap sack — turns up dead on a stranger's futon. The FBI, the Miami-Dade police and a couple of hapless Floridians all want the same thing: the three-point-two million dollars he stole.
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2024 · 87 min · Not rated (think PG-13 / light R: language and dark comedy)
Jim, who was blind, wrote and voiced the description himself. Sighted viewers: try it on. It's a second way to see the movie.
Trailers
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Trailer #1
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Trailer #2 (CinemaScope)
Case file 3.2M
The slowest heist ever hatched
In New York, it was Noogie's job to keep bodega ATMs flush with twenties. He wanted a life more like his film-noir antihero-heroes, so he began pocketing loose bills. Slowly. For two years.
Then his Miami-based employer calls about a little “discrepancy” in the accounting. Noogie panics and goes on the lam with his cat, Dillinger, and $3.2 million in cash, headed for the one place he's pretty sure no one would ever look: sunny Florida.
Now it's a race between two FBI agents, a Miami-Dade detective, and his recent roommate Kenny (and Kenny's ruthless girlfriend, Liz) to find the money first.
Ned “Noogie” Krapczak
Brandon Potter
Dillinger
The cat. An accessory.
Agents Meyers & Ludkvasen
Sanjay Rao & Mike Wiebe
Det. Stone, Kenny & Liz
Lee Eddy, Byron Brown & Kelli Bland
Accessibility
A film described by the man who wrote it
Jim Knipfel wrote the novel, executive produced the film and even drove a car in it. He had retinitis pigmentosa, which he wrote about in his memoir Slackjaw. By the time the film was finished, his vision was gone.
So Jim wrote and performed the audio description himself, in his own comic voice, and Andy Slater, a blind composer and sound designer, mixed the film and led the accessibility work. The result is less a technical track than a second way to see the movie.
We screen it with the description on, through the house speakers, for everyone.
Screenings
The Tarlton Theatre — Green Bay, WI December 6, 2025
Hometown screening with Jim's audio description on for the whole room.
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Host a screening with the form here.
In memory
Jim Knipfel
June 2, 1965 – October 7, 2026
Jim wrote the book this film is based on, executive produced it, drove a car in it and gave it its voice. The audio description you can switch on above is Jim, describing a movie he could no longer see.
Born in Grand Forks, raised in Green Bay, he wrote the weekly column Slackjaw for some forty years, from Philadelphia to New York Press, and published fifteen books. He came home to Green Bay in 2021, where Noogie had its hometown screening in December 2025.
Jim took a risk working with a kid out of film school when I cold emailed him asking to collaborate on a screenplay for his first novel, The Buzzing. His email excitedly agreeing to it was one of the most exciting moments of my life, and it kicked off many madcap adventures together and two pieces of work I'm incredibly proud of. It was an honor becoming his close friend, and I'll miss him every day. I still can't believe he's gone.
— Erik Horn
“It sure was an interesting ride while it lasted.”
Behind the scenes
Shot in 2015 on a micro budget. Finished, eventually.
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Making Noogie: the IndieGoGo featurette
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The long BTS reel
Stay through the credits
Credits
Starts right after “The End,” at 1:25:05.
Filmmakers
- Directed by
- Brad Parrett & Erik Horn
- Produced by
- Shiraz Jafri
- Based on the novel by
- Jim Knipfel
- Screenplay by
- Brandon Potter, Brad Parrett and Erik Horn
- Director of photography
- Andrew Baird
- Edited by
- Tim Edwards
- Score by
- Kevin Schneider and Sean Conner
- Sound design
- Kyle Graham, Andy Slater
- Art director
- Luther Himes
- Co-produced by
- Sam Malcolm and Erik Horn
- Executive producer
- Jim Knipfel
- Audio description
- Written and performed by Jim Knipfel
- Sound mix & accessibility
- Andy Slater
Cast of characters
- Brandon Potter
- Ned “Noogie” Krapczak
- Lee Eddy
- Detective Stone
- Byron Brown
- Kenny
- Kelli Bland
- Liz
- Mike Wiebe
- Agent Sven Ludkvasen
- Sanjay Rao
- Agent Jake Meyers
- Toes
- Dillinger the Cat
- Dave Buckman
- Detective Pleeps
- Brad Parrett
- Police Radio Dispatch
- Carlos LaRotta
- Roy
- Mac Blake
- Fast Eddie
- Oscar Salinas
- Snot-Nosed Kid
- Courtney Hopkin, Terri Bennett
- Snot-Nosed Kid’s Mom
- Pam Dougherty
- Mildred Krapczak (voice)
- Kerri Lendo
- Supermarket Cashier
- Will Cleavland
- William Nilly
- Danu Uribe
- Harriet Creighton
- Tom Booker
- Len Martinez
- David Jones
- Jerry Jewel
- Tom Green
- Presley Buckitt
- Sam Malcolm
- Drive-Thru Server
- Matt Fitz
- Hotel Clerk
- Abby Rosenquist
- Girlfriend, Adjacent Room
- Ed Reed
- Boyfriend, Adjacent Room
- Sam Eidson
- Officer Callahan
- Arthur Simone
- Coroner
- Amber Quick
- Velda
- Addison Billingsley
- Young FBI Agent
- Jim Knipfel
- Driver on Lonely Road
- Michael Joplin
- Drippy the Clown
- Elijah Eidson
- Dunking Booth Carny
- J.J. Castillo
- Carnival Goer
- Jason De Vos
- Carnival Dad
- Katherine De Vos
- Carnival Mom
- Chance De Vos
- Carnival Son
- Anya De Vos
- Carnival Daughter
- Scott Raney
- Hotdog-Eating Carny
- Marcus Hysmith
- Background Carny
Crew
- Sound recording
- Paul Toohey
- Sound recording
- Kyle Graham
- Grip truck gaffer
- Suezean Matazzarano
- Production designer
- Haley Esposito
- Makeup
- Eric Zapata
- Director of photography (location shoot)
- Gates Bradley
- Camera assistant
- Jason Youngblood
- Art department assistant
- Ciara Peacock
- Production assistant
- Justin Soileau
- DIT
- Ben Slamka
Special thanks
- Gates Bradley
- Heather Beckel Luecke
- Jim Knipfel
- Kathy and Zoe Horn
- Kevin Schneider
- Lynn and Richard Brunner
- Originator Studios
- Richard Horn
- Sara Cushman
- Steve Rapp
- Sean Conner
- Tim Edwards
- Wylie Earnhart
Indiegogo supporters
- Alan Luecke
- Andrew Logan
- Barbie Wu
- Ben Davidoff
- Brandy Fons
- Brian Parrett
- Briana Murray
- Caitlin Stevens
- Caroline Porter
- Carolyn Parrett
- Charles Campbell
- Christina Lucero
- Cody Ground
- Corey Atkins
- Cristiano Fontes
- Daniel Magaha
- David Parrett
- David Lackey
- Dayna Musser
- Derek Davis
- Devin Pike
- Diana Haggerty
- Don B. Long III
- Donald T Kennison
- Eric Friend
- Erik J Pontius
- Erin Myers
- Garrett Johnston
- Godelieve Bartolucci
- Grant P Kirby
- Holly Garrard
- Ira J Siegel
- James P Robinson
- Jared A. Robertson
- Jason Wehling
- Jason DeVos
- Jason E Youngblood
- Jeffrey B Martin
- Jeffrey Carr
- Jessica Barcus
- Joel Valle
- John Carr
- John Hasert
- John Gross
- Juliet Prather
- Justin Lemieux
- Karen B Scott
- Katherine Graham
- Kent Yost
- Kyle Sweeney
- Laci Hill
- Lauren Reichman
- Lea Anne Newton
- Leah Clark
- Leah Michelle Ross
- Lee Eddy
- Lucia Terrazas
- Luis Caffesse
- Lynn Brunner
- Mark Smoot
- Mark Wheaton
- Marshall Long
- Mac Blake
- Michael Thompson
- Michael McNeff
- Michelle Green
- Monica Smith
- Nell Kennedy
- Paul Knaus
- Phillip Wright
- R C Ohlson
- Rebecca Brock
- Riccardo Delli Fraine
- Richard Brunner
- Richard Bettinger
- Robert Lambert
- Robert Segovia
- Robert Wiggs
- Rodrigo I Quintero
- Roger Aasmith
- Ryan Bevan
- Sara Osburn
- Scott Hamilton
- Stephanie Noone
- Stephen Huff
- Susan Z Keckler
- Tom B Green
- Traci A Joyce
- Victoria E Potter
- Yuval Weber
In 2001, an employee at an ATM company pocketed over three million dollars worth of twenties.
When the company finally caught on, he fled with the cash, his van, and his cat.
Law enforcement had no leads for two months, until Christmas day in Miami.
Some of this story is mostly true.
Press & contact
Screenings, distribution and press: noogiestimetoshine@gmail.com