Cast
Rayvant "Ray" Sahni as 'Eli'
The stoner turned cult drug dealer. Eli thought he had it all with spiritual enlightenment and a steady income. That is until the chat leak gets him kicked out of his cult. Now he is back with The Mischief Makers looking for payback.
Ava Sandstrom as 'Amy'
The quiet observer. Amy barely texted in the group chat and always watched from the sidelines. As Grayson’s ex from high school, she had no real ties to The Mischief Makers until the leak pulls her back in. Now she is reluctantly part of a reunion she never wanted.
Max Yates as 'Grayson'
The heart of The Mischief Makers. When the group chat leak exposes his lie about having a college degree, Grayson sees it as a chance to reunite the gang. But as old lies resurface, he realizes he is in way deeper than he thought.
Ryan Saurborn as 'Blake'
The finance bro canceled. Blake’s Wall Street career crashes when his racist jokes get exposed. Forced back to his hometown, he does not want redemption. He wants revenge, and he is determined to find out who took him down.
Carl Kash as 'Con'
The internet weirdo exposed. Con’s biggest secret was his furry fetish. When the group chat outs him, his girlfriend dumps him, and his life crumbles. Desperate to reclaim his dignity, he joins The Mischief Makers to hunt down the traitor.
Director’s Statement
Based on the viral meme of ‘the group chat getting leaked’, The Big Leak is a feature-length comedy-mystery movie made by a group of college students.
When I first came across the meme about a group chat getting leaked, with a montage of movie characters being arrested for the wild stuff they texted, I immediately saw story potential. What if I took that concept and built a mystery around it? The story could revolve around a group of friends whose old group chat is exposed, and their lives fall apart because of it so they try to figure out who betrayed them.
I grew up loving early 2000s comedy movies so I wanted to infuse a kind of chaotic energy you find in Judd Apatow’s films or The Hangover, and mix that with the tone of some of my favorite mystery movies, like Scream, Knives Out, and Clue. But what I wanted to achieve the most with this movie was to use a comedic concept and take it further than that in order to tap into something more universal.
To me, the group chat is a symbol of connection. It’s where we feel closest to the people we care about until the messages inevitably stop. That inactivity became the emotional core of the film. I wanted to explore what it means when people we thought would be in our lives forever slowly drift away. If that bond was real, why didn’t it last? What does that say about love, about friendship, about growing up?
So while The Big Leak seems like just a funny, chaotic, throwback comedy-mystery, I wanted to ask a deeper question using that seed of an idea: What happens when the people we loved the most stop being part of our lives? Was that bond ever real if we're not there for each other anymore?