With the help of an electronic superstore's 33 day money back guarantee return policy on
video cameras, filmmaker Philip Botti sets out in his hometown with
33 days to make a movie for free. Welcome to Middletown, New Jersey.
Home of the world's only standing Food Circus Clown, Geraldo Rivera,
and host to a fascinating yet familiar group of residents who become
the all-too-willing subjects of Botti's operatic featurette.
Meet the Wolfe Man, a g-string wearing hot body contestant who
never seems to sober up; Sweet Lou, a house arrest detainee who's
thrown in jail for outstanding traffic violations; Botti's mom, an
inveterate couch potato with a love/hate relationship to the camera;
BJ, Middletown's number one sex-crazed son; and Ray, a pot-smoking talk show addict turned
skinhead (amongst others).
Winner of the 1996 New York Underground Film Festival Choice Award,
Middletown has the audacity of being one of the first movies to be shot on a camcorder. Inventive and unpretentious, this one of a kind, no-budget romp into the bowels of Jersey is sure to please!
Middletown. Who says home movies are boring?
1996, Color/B&W, Aprrox. 48 Minutes