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Duck

According to the press notes, auteur Nic Bettauer put her house in hock in order to put this movie on film. I fear she's going to have to move to smaller digs quite soon, which is rather sad.

It's 2009, and the Republicans are transcendent. Arthur's (Philip Baker Hall) wife just died and his son had died in an accident many years before, and as he's burying her ashes under a bush, he comes Upon Joe (the Affleck duck), and adopts him. His landlord Norman (Bill Cobbs) throws him out, and Art and Joe have to live on the open road. Things go from bad to worse, when we learn that Bush's brother is now President and all public conveniences are now privatized and the government has declared war on the environment.

Art and Joe head west and are befriended and then rejected by pretty much everyone they meet. Hall, basically has a long monologue that nearly equals the one that he did in Robert Altman's “Secret Honor.” Unfortunately for us, it's not nearly as good as that one. It's entirely pointless, and that's exactly what film festival programmers look for and the general public can't stand. This
is a waste of time and money, and it's going to come and go so fast it'll make your head spin.

Eric Lurio