(East Coast Premiere)
Screening Time: Friday, May 2, 9:00 PM, Charles Theatre 3
 Director:
Andrew McAllister
Cast: Duke Novak, Mara Hesed, Adam Greensfield,
Arlette Del Toro, Corey Contreras
Country: U.S.
Year: 2001
Running Time: 80 minutes
Format: Beta SP
An unusual dark comedy featuring puppets and musical numbers.
Tuck is a somewhat unlikable alcoholic slacker who dreams of becoming
a groundbreaking storyteller on a public access TV puppet show.
In reality, he’s forced to wear plastic armor while working
the graveyard shift for a medieval theme roofing company. He divides
his free time between ex-girlfriends, a pet massage specialist,
and memories of his childhood with a beer-loving dad and the backyard
chainsaw-art sculptures that were his confidants. Tuck’s
luck takes a turn for the better when he finally meets a girl
that has more to offer than puppetry, only she claims to be attracted
to more adventurous types. In order to impress his new love interest,
Tuck takes up race car driving, but only after his drinking gives
him the courage he needs. Director Andrew McAllister’s eye
for visual experimentation adds to this already oddball ode to
drunken slackerdom.
--Skizz Cyzyk
Presented By:Andrew McAllister
Showing with NUCLEAR STRIKES: LANE
TO WASTE
Director: Meeka Salise Productions
Country: U.S.
Year: 2002
Running Time: 11 minutes
Format: Beta SP
In this stylishly animated short, Saddam Hussien, Fidel Castro,
Muammar Qaddafi and the Ayatollah Khomeini have lost their countries
and fallen out of the public eye. Having nothing better to do,
they form an alliance called The Nuclear Strikes - essentially
a four man bowling team.
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