Scalene, the feature debut for director Zack Parker, is a genre bending film that is
part psychological mystery, part character drama and stars Hannah Hall and Margo Martindale.
The following year, Garofalo appeared in no less than five films, with a supporting
part in the ensemble piece 200 Cigarettes, a starring role as an unconventional action heroine called the Bowler in
Mystery Men (which also featured Stiller), and prominent turns in Kevin Smith's eagerly awaited Dogma, Hampton Fancher's
psychological thriller The Minus Man, and the satirical comedy Can't Stop Dancing, in which she acted alongside fellow comedienne Margaret Cho.In 2001, Garofolo took on the role of Catherine Connolly in The Laramie Project, HBO's docudrama chronicling the aftermath of the death of Matthew Shepard, and filmmaker David Wain's comedy Wet Hot American Summer.
On a formal level, the execution of the piece conveys
mystery and a precarious balance from the odd placement of the
parts and the shadows created by light as it passes through the holes, a perfect engagement of material with the
psychological anxiety that was Surrealism.