Indie "Door" opens for "Scissors" star

By Gregg Goldstein

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Joseph Cross ("Running With Scissors") and Sarah Roemer ("Disturbia") are set to play mismatched lovers in the indie comedy "The Golden Door."

Rachael Leigh Cook ("Nancy Drew") and rapper Snoop Dogg ("Soul Plane") are also involved in the project, which starts shooting September 4.

Cross is in final negotiations to play a blue-collar nursing student who lands a job as a doorman in a swank Manhattan apartment building, leading to an unlikely romance with a young resident (Roemer).

Cook will play the sister who encourages Cross' relationship, much to the dismay of the girl's mother. Snoop Dogg, also in final talks, would play the slick doorman who hazes his new co-worker and shows him the ropes.

"It's about an 'Upstairs, Downstairs' type of relationship," said the film's director, David M. Rosenthal. "The film explores class distinctions and the American ideal."

Rosenthal and producer Joseph Smith based their script on a story idea from Peter Kellner, a producer on Rosenthal's 2006 comedy "See This Movie."

Reuters/Hollywood Reporter