About this Film...

DIRECTOR: Clark Gregg
PRODUCERS: Johnathan Dorfman, Temple Fennell, Beau Flynn, Tripp Vinson
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Tim Orr
WRITERS: Clark Gregg (screenplay), Chuck Palahniuk (novel)
COUNTRY: USA
YEAR: 2008

BRIEF: Based on the book by popular cult author Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club), actor-turned-director Clark Gregg (The New Adventures of Old Christine, the upcoming Iron Man) brings to the screen a wickedly colorful dark comedy about mothers and sons, sexual compulsion, and the sordid underbelly of Colonial theme parks. Victor Mancini (Sam Rockwell) is a sex-addicted med-school dropout who keeps his increasingly deranged mother Ida (Angelica Huston) in an expensive private hospital by working days as a historical re-enactor at a Colonial Williamsburg theme park. At night, Victor runs a scam deliberately fake-choking in upscale restaurants to form profitable parasitic relationships with the wealthy patrons who “save” him. In flashback, we meet the younger Ida, who raised Victor alone and in absurdly unconventional circumstances. When, in a rare lucid moment, Ida reveals that she has withheld the shocking truth of his father’s identity, Victor enlists the aid of his best friend (Brian William Henke) and his mother’s beautiful physician, Dr. Paige Marshall (Kelly Macdonald, No Country for Old Men), to solve the mystery in this laugh-out-loud farcical turn. 95mins. Clark Gregg in attendance.