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Splinterheads

plays in Celestial Cinema Friday

(2009, 93 mins)

Hawaii Premiere

Executive Producers: Steven Voichick, Mike Bulger
Producers: Darren Goldberg, Christopher Marsh, Anisa Qureshi
Screenwriter: Brant Sersen
Cast: Thomas Middleditch, Rachael Taylor, Christopher McDonald, Lea Thompson, Dean Winters, Frankie Faison

• www.splinterheadsthemovie.com

This Film Shows as part of the Celestial Cinema Friday program, screening order for this program is as follows:
8:00pm Splinterheads
9:30pm Maverik Award honoring Willie Nelson (followed by One Peace at a Time)
11:00pm Cash Crop

"I think my 'thing' is that I don't have a 'thing'—is that okay‾" says slacker Justin Frost, and he means the implied answer to be yes. But when a character says something like this at the beginning of a wacky comic love story, you know for sure that he's just plain wrong.

Exactly how wrong he is depends upon what happens when a traveling carnival comes to his town for the summer. The carnival brings along its crew, the carnies. But it also drags in a slew of "splinterheads"—hangers-on whose personalities cover the whole spectrum from zany to nuts. Splinterheads make their living by hustling the townies, any means to that end. Take, for example, The Amazing Steve and his companion Wyoming. (She was working as a clerk in the government office when The Amazing Steve came in to legally change his name to The Amazing Steve.) He nightly takes his life into his own hands (well…), and she dispenses oracular wisdom such as, "Ride the cow of awakening to your newness."

Among the splinterheads is a smart, sexy con artist named Galaxy, and Justin Frost falls hard for her. Trouble is, she has a rabidly jealous boyfriend named Reggie. Between getting his ass kicked and his heart broken, Justin is forced to confront his lack of "thing."

In this film you don't have to be a splinterhead to be peculiar. For example, Justin's 116-year-old grandfather joins the carnival as "the newest oldest world's man" and Justin's ex-stepfather, a lovesick police sergeant, just can’t let go. Quick, get me some cotton candy!