THE LIFE AND HARD TIMES OF GUY TERRIFICO

Rated Unknown; 86min; Director:Michael Mabbott

THE LIFE AND HARD TIMES OF GUY TERRIFICO
MUSIC MONDAY SCREENING $2 / $1 admission - PLUS! PLAYS APRIL 25 & 29 FOR REGULAR ADMISSION!

Alternative country and its booze-fueled macho mythmaking get a well deserved work-over in Michael Mabbott's raunchy mockumentary. The film takes as its starting point the making of a contemporary tribute album for the notorious Guy, a hard-drinking, hard-living legend who never quite made it. Guy starts out as a smalltown prairie boy who just wants to play music, until an improbable, unexpected windfall leaves him newly wealthy. He soon acquires the requisite shady entourage, who encourage him to indulge in enough intoxicants to fell a water buffalo. Riffing off a host of outlaw-country myths - most notably the bizarre saga of Gram Parsons's death - Mabbott also includes hysterically funny testimonials to his hero from such legends as Kris Kristofferson, Levon Helm and Merle Haggard. All of them adore Guy's songs (the few they've heard) but can't seem to wrap their heads around his boorish, dickhead behaviour. Mixing in footage of notorious incidents in country music history - such as Kristofferson's infamous acceptance speech at the 1970 Country Music Awards - Mabbott creates a persistently witty portrait of the music industry and its need to cannibalize and glamorize its past. (Steve Gravestock)

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Screenings (click on a show time to buy tickets):

• Monday, April 16, 2007
  • 9:45p
• Wednesday, April 25, 2007
  • 7:00p
• Sunday, April 29, 2007
  • 4:00p