Sunday, May 14, 1:30 PM, Charles Theatre 2

Directors: Eddy Von Mueller & Evan Lieberman
Executive Producer, Producer and Screenwriter: Lynn Lamousin

Cast: (voices & puppeteers) Vince Tortorici, Chris Clabo, Eric Goins, Melanie Parker, R.T. Steckel, Melanie Walker, Evy Wright, Reay Kaplan, Annie Peterie,

Country: USA
Year: 2005
Running Time: 71:00 minutes
Format: BetaSP

"Wool War II rages and times are tough for sock puppets. Terrence M. Cotton, a washed-up gumshoe, finds himself knee-high in debt and praying for a big case. Enter Heelda Brum, a finely spun piece of high-end hosiery who hires Cotton to find Darnell, her missing mate. Cotton takes the missing sock case but the heat gets turned on high when Darnell's unraveled remains are discovered.
At the top of Cotton's suspect list is the cheaply woven criminal Big Toeny Marnetti. When interrogated, Big Toeny states that Heelda and Darnell aren't the designer duds Cotton thinks they are, and he tells Cotton the pair has tightly knit ties to an Asian underground silk ring. The news needles Cotton, so he goes looking for answers at The House of Bootah, a restaurant with its toes in every illegal operation in Chinatown.
At the House of Bootah he questions the leader of the smuggling ring, but instead of getting closer to finding who put the pinking shears to Darnell, Cotton discovers that Heelda's lies may have stained the investigation. When confronted, Heelda won't come clean; but Cotton is undeterred and sticks to the investigation like static cling.
But can a clean sock find justice in a dirty town? As Cotton threads the strands of the case together and gets closer to the truth, he must watch his step or risk meeting the same frayed fate as Darnell."

In case the above description has not already clued you in, The Lady From Sockholm is a combination of two particular genres that are not often combined: Sam Spade-style film noir detective mysteries, and sock puppet movies. With its all-sock-puppet cast, a very clever script loaded with puns and double entendres, and detailed set design and art direction, this comedy is overflowing with creativity and can be enjoyed by all. There is some sock violence and hints at other adult-size-sock themes and situations, but those scenes are likely to go over the heads of most child-size-sock wearers.

-- Skizz Cyzyk

Presented By: Lynn Lamousin

Lynn Lamousin's screenplay for The Lady from Sockholm received an Award of Excellence from the prestigious Slamdance Screenplay Competition and her romantic comedy script Make Me a Match won the 2004 Southeastern Media Award and a prize package valued at $100,000. As owner of the creative firm KITTYBOY Creations, Lynn consults several Fortune 100 companies on large-scale media initiatives. She is currently writing a sock puppet western entitled A Fistful of Buttons.