| Plot Synopsis |
by Jonathan Crow |
Eraserhead meets Buck Rogers by way of an MGM musical in this bizarre outer-space saga about Samuel Curtis (Cory McAbee), a galactic truck driver looking to make a killing. The film opens with Curtis landing on the freewheeling, all-male asteroid of Ceres. Before winning a dance contest with his buddy Blueberry Pirate -- who is renowned for smuggling fresh fruit -- Curtis learns from Blueberry about a scheme to give a fetal "real live girl" to the similarly male-dominated planet of Jupiter in exchange for a strapping adolescent known solely as "The Boy Who Actually Saw a Female Breast." He in turn will be sent to the all-female planet of Venus where he will spend his life servicing the planet's occupants. Unfortunately, Curtis is followed by the mysterious self-proclaimed birthday boy Professor Hess, who has a tendency to vaporize any and all who come into contact with him. This film was screened at the 2001 Toronto Film Festival as a part of the Midnight Madness program. |
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Tales from the Gimli Hospital
(1988, Guy Maddin)
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Eraserhead
(1977, David Lynch)
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Kafka
(1991, Steven Soderbergh)
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The Grandmother
(1970, David Lynch)
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Twilight of the Ice Nymphs
(1997, Guy Maddin)
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Naked Lunch
(1991, David Cronenberg)
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The Institute Benjamenta
(1995, Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay)
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The Saddest Music in the World
(2003, Guy Maddin)
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Planet Earth: Dreams
(2004, D.J. Mendel)
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First People on the Moon
(2005, Alexei Fedorchenko)
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