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Part documentary, part narrative fiction, part home movie, and part acid trip. A psychedelic whirlwind of snapshots, Super-8 home movies, old answering machine messages, video diaries, early short films, snippets of '80s pop culture, and dramatic reenactments to create an epic portrait of an American family travesty. The story begins in 2003 when Jonathan learns that his schizophrenic mother, Renee, has overdosed on her lithium medication. He is catapulted back into his real and horrifying family legacy of rape, incest, abandonment, promiscuity, drug addiction, child abuse, and psychosis. As he grows up on camera, he finds the escapist balm of musical theater and B horror flicks and reconnects to life through a queer chosen family. Then a look into the future shows Jonathan as he confronts the symbiotic and almost unbearable love he shares with his beautiful and tragically damaged mother.

Cast Names
Cassidy King; Shana King; Renee Leblanc; Jonathan Caouette; Adolph Davis; Rosemary Davis; David Sanin Paz; Joshua Williams; Michael (XVI) Cox; David Leblanc; Stacey Mowery; Michael Mouton; Greg Ayres; Vanda Stovall; Dagon James; Vivian Kalinov; Steve Caouette; Lisa Berri; Kelli Brisbane; Mike Smith Rivera; Miek Coccia; Caity Creitz; Daniel Letterle; Sterling Price McKinney; Michael Sillery; Layard Thompson;

Box Office
USD 590,873

Release Date
2003-10-19 (New York Lesbian and Gay Film Festival)
2003-11-21 (MIX NYC: Lesbian and Gay Experimental Film and Video Festival) (premiere)
2004-01-18 (Sundance Film Festival)
2004-10-05 (New York Film Festival)
2004-10-08 (Chicago International Film Festival)
2004-10-08 (limited)
2004-10-25 (Milwaukee International Film Festival)
2004-11-14 (Atlanta Out On Film Gay and Lesbian Film Festival)

Genres
Documentary;

Running Time
1 hr. 28 min.
1 hr. 28 min. (Mar del Plata Film Festival)

Director
Jonathan Caouette

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