Luke and Andrew Wilson's "The Wendell Baker Story" will open the 2005 SXSW Film Festival on March 11th in Austin, TX, organizers announced Tuesday. The movie, starring Luke Wilson, Owen Wilson, Eve Mendes, Eddie Griffin and others, is about a good-hearted ex-con who gets a job at a retirement community where he joins forces with the elderly to fight corruption and win back his girlfriend. Some 200 shorts and features will screen at this year's event according to planners.

"As film fans and fellow Texans, we have nothing but admiration for the Wilson brothers," says SXSW fest producer Matt Dentler in a statement. "I can't think of a better idea than having their directorial debut launch this year's festival. You want to give audiences a great time, and this is a fantastic way to do it."

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