In the helpful glossary of "Sprung speak" provided in Sprung's press packet, the term "sprung" is described as "a slang term used as the title of a hysterical new feature film," and defined as the condition of being "in love or infatuated with another person." In the movie Sprung, writer, director, and actor Rusty Cundieff (Fear Of A Black Hat) plays an aspiring photographer and filmmaker (autobiographical material alert) whose approach to romance differs from that of co-star Joe Torry, who is a "player" (someone who is not monogamous) who thinks he is "all that" (the best). When Cundieff starts to "kick it" (get together) with Tisha Campbell, Torry and Campbell's "homegirl" (best friend) begin "trippin'" (over-reacting) and combine forces to make them come unsprung. It's difficult to pull off a romantic comedy, a film that's supposed to be at once funny and romantic. Unfortunately, Sprung doesn't just fail at both; it fails at remaining watchable most of the time. The wild comedic interludes are mindless (e.g., a bikini-brief-clad Torry clinging to the top of a speeding car), but it's Cundieff's romantic impulse that really fails him. His character comes off as a hopelessly bland nobody: His attempts to describe love as coming from the head and the heart before coming from the crotch will have all but the sappiest audience members cringing in their seats. On a technical level, sequences are overdubbed in such a way that the characters' mouths don't match the words they're speaking. Buy a ticket to Sprung expecting either a wild comedy or a charming romance—or even a competently made film—and you're likely to feel "played" (having been taken for a fool by another person).