Another role for John Ritter

Actor John Ritter, who died in September, appears in a new movie, “Man of the Year.”

Shot in July 2001, the film stars Ritter as a wealthy honoree at a dinner party that leads to the unraveling of his life. Ritter spent 12 hours with friends to make the improvised dramatic comedy and was paid $100.

Straw Weisman, who produced and co-directed the movie, said the idea came to him after a visit to the Cannes Film Festival. “I was frustrated with how long it took to get deals done,” he said. “I decided that I was going to get as many digital cameras as I could marshal and I was going to enlist all of my friends, relatives, associates, friends of friends, and pool those resources to shoot a movie in one night.”

After the festival circuit, the $25,000 film played briefly in Los Angeles, and there may be future engagements.