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A Great Zambini Pictures production

Shot: March, 2000

Premiere: August 10, 2007

Running time: 121 minutes

Written, directed and edited by ROBERT CUCUZZA

 

With

JOSH STARK as Jacob

ROBERT CUCUZZA as Ivan

DAVID COTE as Karl

LAURA KACHERGUS as Molly

SALLY EBERHARDT as Ms. Fuentalba

VLADMIR AMBIA as Senor Santangelo

SHAUNA KELLY as Tiffany Taylor

HERMAN L. EBERHARDT as Paw-Paw

 

Cinematography: SALVATORE INTERLANDI

1st Ass’t Director: RACHEL WOOD

Production Designer: MEROPE VACHLIOTI

Script Supervisor: SHARON WATT

Gaffer/Grip: RICK MARTIN

Sound Mixer: MARTIN BEAUCHAMP

Aide-de-camp: DAVID LETWIN

Sound Designers: JOHN COLLINS and ROBERT CUCUZZA

 

"See the Bears!"

Music by RILEY McMAHON, Lyrics by ROBERT CUCUZZA

Choreography by JOHANNA S. MEYER

 

Paw Paw's Famous Canned Peas are selling like hot cakes. What the unsuspecting vegetable-eaters don't know is that those tasty peas are laced with a potent and addictive drug that has sparked an epidemic of suicide jumps in their fair city. Ivan, the ringleader of Paw Paw's illicit operation, has more pressing concerns. His years of indulging in the drug have made him immune to its glorious effects, envy has ensued and his appetite for absurd pleasure is now all-consuming. With the help of his assistant Molly and their new Amish employee Jacob, he lures amateur performers over to the decrepit warehouse for a phony talent show and, in a cockamamie and unsuccessful attempt at happiness, watches their "audition," then viciously thrill-kills them. As the authorities close in and faced with one miserably failed thrill after another, Ivan ingests three “pure chunks” of the stuff, catapulting him into a delirious vaudevillian dream world of dancing bears. His appetite for pleasure is now downright ravenous. As the National Guard closes in, the machines start to break down and the whole operation tumbles into sheer idiocy, Ivan shamelessly goes for broke. Determined to take his lurid team with him on his way to maximum pleasure, he masterminds a ramshackle plan for a most grisly, selfish, and hilarious grand finale.

 

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