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DRUNK STONED BRILLIANT DEAD: THE NATIONAL LAMPOON STORY
Sunday, Oct 11, 2015 12:00 PM
Dir. Douglas Tirola, USA, 2015, 98 min., NR, DCP
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General Admission Adult Matinee - $9.50
General Admission Senior - $11.50
General Admission Student - $9.50
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General Admission Child - $11.50
General Admission Group Sale - $8.50

 
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Amid the seismic cultural shift of the 1970s, American comedy got a sharper edge when a newly minted magazine named National Lampoon stuck its middle finger up at the establishment. Bound by a passion for the absurd and a mistrust of authority, Lampoon's irreverence spanked nearly every available social taboo, from weak-kneed politics to heated racial tensions. This unique cocktail of high satire and gallows humor attracted visionary talents such as Gilda Radner, John Belushi, Bill Murray and Chevy Chase, whose comedic forces helped expand the magazine's spirit to stage and film. Director Douglas Tirola unearths never-before-seen archival footage and brilliantly weaves it together with the magazine's beautiful and often shocking art, reliving National Lampoon's meteoric rise from go-to magazine of the counterculture to a brand synonymous with Hollywood's biggest comedies. Energetic, revolutionary, gently perverted and often hilarious, DRUNK STONED BRILLIANT DEAD elevates nostalgia to a roof-raising experience.

“Punch-drunk and very much alive…a real non-fiction crowdpleaser.” —Ben Kenigsberg, Variety

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