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Writer/star Nathan Smith Jones of I DON'T SPEAK ENGLISH
A decade-long journey for the locally-shot independent film now getting a theatrical release
Nathan Smith Jones and Christopher Robin Miller in "I Don't Speak English" The thing about working in the world of independent film is that you never know when—or if—your next project will ever see the light of day. For Nathan Smith Jones, it’s been a journey of more than a decade for his movie to arrive on a Utah theater screen this week.
Jones—whose 2003 mockumentary parody of the then-fresh “Mormon movie” trend The Work and the Story showed in local theaters—wrote and stars in I Don’t Speak English , a romantic comedy in which he plays an Arizona-based conservative talk-radio host named…
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