Shut Up, Little Man!

Friday, August 19
Long Beach Island Foundation for the Arts and Sciences
Loveladies, NJ

8:00 pm
Fee $5.00 LFS members free

The Lighthouse Film Society is excited to kick off this year’s monthly films with a special screening of Shut Up, Little Man! Opens in theaters August 25, 2011.

In 1987, Midwesterners Eddie and Mitch, recent college graduates, scored their dream apartment in a pink, ramshackle building in San Francisco’s Height Asbury district. Only after signing the lease does the landlord mention the neighbors, “two gentleman” who were sometimes loud. This turns out to be a vast understatement. The neighbors are the ultimate odd couple. They hate each other with raging abandon and, through the paper‐thin walls, terrorize Eddie and Mitch with their alcohol‐fuelled rants. Hanging out their apartment window, an angry Eddie and Mitch begin to tape record evidence of the insane, but hilarious, arguments next door. In recording Pete and Ray’s unique dialogue, the boys accidentally create one of the world’s first “viral” pop culture sensations, spawning comic strips, puppets, and other phenomena based on their crazy neighbors. The film, directed and written by Mathew Bates, is a laugh out loud, bizarre comedy.