Screening Log

This new site feature is a collective effort to summarize our viewing habits. Occasionally, you will find titles here that are coming to a theater near you, in addition to films viewed on television, and even films viewed in piecemeal. The screening log is archived each month; to view past entries select a month in the menu below.


March 2006 activity

Total Log Entries: 87

Total Comments: 44


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Man With a Plan / Fred Tuttle is the Man With a Plan / USA / 1996

The charm of John O’Brien’s Man With a Plan is twofold. The tale of a retired Vermont farmer who decides to run for Congress, O’Brien’s cult classic has also become an unusual piece of American history. Two years after portraying himself, Tuttle ran for the Senate against a Republican lawyer from Massachusetts, only to endorse Patrick Leahy after winning the primary.

Filmed around the small New England town of Tunbridge, Man With a Plan follows Tuttle as he becomes the antithesis of a career politician. In need of money for his 95-year old father’s hip surgery, Tuttle begins a grass roots campaign against the district veteran, a wiry-haired man named Blachly who’s earned the support of both parties. Tuttle’s also incredibly honest, and his speeches are short, poorly delivered, and incoherent. Nevertheless, his home-grown humility and pureness make him a lovable protagonist, and the film’s humor is admirable and unexpectedly clever.

by Adam Balz | Source: Bellwether Films VHS
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