USA,
2002, 90 min
Shown in 2002
CREDITS
- dir
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Lucky McKee
- prod
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Marias Balchunas, Scott Sturgeon
- scr
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Lucky McKee
- cam
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Steve Yedlin
- editor
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Debra Goldfield, Rian Johnson
- mus
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Jaye Barnes-Luckett, Kendall Marsh
- cast
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Angela Bettis, Jeremy Sisto, Anna Faris, James Duval
- source
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Lions Gate Films, 4553 Glencoe Avenue, Suite 200, Marina Del Rey, CA 90292. FAX: 310-396-6041.
OTHER
A young woman, ostracized and alone in the big city, decides to make some new friends... out of spare body parts. In this part-camp, part-psychological horror thriller by Northern California native Lucky McKee, the pixie-like May, intensely shy and introverted after a tormented childhood, works at a veterinary clinic, unable to make friends or meet new people (unless you count the demonic homemade doll who keeps her company at home). When she meets a studly auto mechanic who thinks “weirdness” is attractive, May hopes her fortunes have turned, until their first date turns slightly weirder than even he wants. The obligatory nymphomaniac lesbian secretary (every office has one... in this kind of movie) promises another chance to hook up, but when that too fails, it’s time to follow mother’s advice: “When you can’t find a friend, make one.” Simplifying first dates tremendously, now May just needs a woman with nice legs, a man with strong hands, and—most of all—a few sharp scalpels and a freezer. A tribute to the myths of Frankenstein, the gorefests of Dario Argento and the urban neuroses of Roman Polanski, May one-ups them all by dissecting the ills of that most horrific of all monstrosities: the search for love.
FACTOID #175
In 1967, two years prior to her death, the Festival honored Judy Garland in the first (according to the program note) American homage of her work. Garland was unable to attend.
