5-25-77 (2017)

[Edgy MD]

Small-town boychild is taken by his parents to see 2001: A Space Odyssey in 1968. Somehow, at eight, he is the only one in the theater who understands it. As he ages through his teens and approaches young adulthood, he obsessively makes his own films — at the same time juvenile and derivative and increasingly sophisticated — in his back yard. This causes him to both move ahead and lag behind his peers in emotional development, seeing the world as filtered through film shots and edits.

When circumstances conspire to to allow him to witness an early screening of Star Wars, he becomes a teenage Cassandra, burdened with the knowledge that this film is going to change American culture and with it the lives of everyone he knows, but unable to convince anyone else that this is going to come to pass.

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[Johnny Lunchbucket]

This sounds like a movie I wouldn't want to watch.

[Edgy MD]

Along with Best Sellers, It is part of an accidental film series I seem to have made for myself of semi-autobiographical stories directed by fringe Hollywood figures, who, given a budget and a chance to direct, want to tell their own story instead of somebody else's.

This won the coveted Heineken Red Star Award at The Hamptons International Film Festival in 2008.