If a male version of Spring Breakers was made, sans the dark-tanning oil and big-budget panache, it might look something like The Convenient Job. The student-created film, produced by one of Brandeis' own, Ethan Stein '15, was played on the big screen for the first time ever in Wasserman Cinematheque last Wednesday.

The storyline is familiar enough: three film students strapped for cash need to raise money for their next movie. Spoiler alert-when at first they don't succeed, they rob a convenience store, and filmmaker Rob Robbins of New York University catches it all on tape, all to the tune of the band Ch!nch!lla.

Keeping in mind that Wednesday's screening featured extra footage to test on an audience, the story, especially the first half, moves slowly, and can be likened to any homegrown Mumblecore film with its naturalistic dialogue. In this case, it's mostly boys hanging around, talking about how to get quick cash, speckled with their toilet humor. At one point of particular desperation, one of them must literally hug a toilet after swallowing too many pills.

But if nothing else, The Convenient Job is at least self conscious of its story. An entire scene is dedicated to the boys fretting over whether their movie passes the Bechdel Test-whether the movie has two named women in it, those women talk to each other and they talk about something other than a man.

While the film doesn't quite pass the test, some of the best scenes take place between Julie Shain, a senior at Yale University, who is also the only woman in the film, and Mark Rapaport, a believable actor who is a junior at Johns Hopkins University. Shain's character always wears a camera, and some of the film's footage comes from her recordings, which adds to the feeling of obsessive self-awareness. 

Probably much of the audience can empathize with her character when she complains about the boyish immaturity of Rapaport's friends, specifically "Looch" Gelfand, who attends Baruch College in real life.

It's "Looch" and his "method acting" (the joke being that he plays himself and hence is always in character) that drives most of the plot of The Convenient Job. He's also the one whom audience members might find the most offensive. At one point he wonders aloud whether rape constitutes "stealing."

There are many moments like this in the movie, and that's probably why the boys felt the need to include a warning in the beginning of the film that reads: "We would like to apologize to our parents for publicizing this footage."

The Convenient Job is the follow-up to the boys' self-proclaimed failed first film, Wordsmith. The saving graces of their second effort are Robbins' interesting diary-style cinematography, Rapaport's genuine acting and Ch!nch!lla's thumping, atmospheric soundtrack.

As the credits roll, there's an endearing vignette about milk, and it almost saves the day.

There's footage of the boys playing milk pong, snorting powdered milk like it's cocaine and taking shots of Lactaid. It's a fun bookend and a conclusion of how juvenile the production is. One day the boys might decide on a more serious undertaking. Until then, spring break forever.