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Sunday, September 10, 2023

TIFF 23 DICKS: THE MUSICAL - Another Fantastic Midnight Madness Opening Film!

 

The Midnight Madness program has a long history of going big opening night films. Borat! Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan readily comes to mind. The night the projector broke. Then there was Fubar 2:  Balls to the Wall where the cast Terry and Dean were rocking on a moving stage driving to the red carpet premiere. The 2023 edition of Midnight Madness also opened with a "bang" with another film by Larry Charles, Dicks: The Musical.

The movie opens informing us, the audience, "The following film was bravely written by two homosexuals, the first time gay men have ever written anything. These same two LGBTQ+ gay guys are also starring in the film, bravely playing heterosexual men. Which is again, brave." Dicks is written by Aaron Jackson and Josh Sharp based on their book, Fucking Identical Twins: The Musical

Bowen Yang (Saturday Night Live) plays God. The best storyteller of all time. Don't believe him, just check the sales of his book! 

Craig (Josh Sharp) and Trevor (Aaron Jackson) are business top salesmen who have found out they are...identical twins?!?!?! What?!?!?! They then scheme a plan to swap places in order to get their divorced parents back together. What follows is why the acronym N.S.F.W. was created Parent Trap.

If you like singing and dancing and dancing and singing then boy oh boy are you in for a cinematic treat! I'll meet you in the street and lament my plight in song with you! If you are not into musicals....

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