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Babe: Pig in the City

Starring: James Cromwell, Mickey Rooney, Magda Szubanski, Mary Stein

After Babe’s great victory in the shepherding contest, Farmer Arthur Hoggett turns down all offers to make money with his pig’s talents. But when he gets hurt severely in the well, his wife has to take up farming. She does her best but cannot meet the bank’s requirements, which results in the necessity of getting back to Babe. Soon, Esme Hoggett is sitting in a plane headed for “the” city. There, Babe unwillingly causes deep trouble. He has to stay with Mrs. Hoggett in the only hotel in town that accepts pets. Friendly neighbours send officials who catch all animals from the hotel: Cats, dogs, chimpanzees and many others. Babe, who managed to stay free, decides to help his new friends and gets unexpected help – not only by Ferdinand, who flew all the way to the city.

Shrek

Starring: Mike Myers, Cameron Diaz, Eddie Murphy, Linda Hunt, John Lithgow

It ain’t easy bein’ green — especially if you’re a likable (albeit smelly) ogre named Shrek. On a mission to retrieve a gorgeous princess from the clutches of a fire-breathing dragon, Shrek teams up with an unlikely compatriot — a wisecracking donkey.

Brooklyn Comedy Festival – BRUNCH SHORTS PROGRAM 2

The 2017 Shorts program is…hard to describe. If you’re too busy to take a mescaline-laced road trip to a strange city with your funniest friends, just come and watch these shorts. It’ll feel pretty much the same, and you won’t have to pay for gas. Featuring new work from Alan Resnick, Joe Firestone, Kati Skelton, Nathan Truesdale, and so, so, so much more.

 

Improv is Love

Directed by Doron Max Hagay

In this laugh-out-loud classic, an aspiring improviser has his priorities in wild disarray.

 

The Best Day of My Life

Directed by Tynan Delong

A single day in the misadventures of Eliza Hurwitz, a sweetly naive sales associate at Manhattan’s USA Girl Doll Store, who dreams of becoming an ENT doctor. A rare entrance of a series project into the festival. Stellar performances and a singular script make this a must-see.

 

What a Feeling

Directed by Jeff Nash

A dancer finds herself up for the opportunity of a lifetime. Does she have what it takes to achieve her dream?

 

Men Don’t Whisper

Directed by Jordan Firstman

After being emasculated at a sales conference, gay couple Reese and Peyton decide the only way to regain their confidence and prove their masculinity is to sleep with some women. When they meet fellow conference attendees and pleasure seekers Beth and Dominique, it seems like a perfect match. Unfortunately sealing the deal is easier said than done.

 

Weird Creatures

Directed by Manolo Moreno

 

Johnny Bubble

Directed by Alan Resnick

Johnny Bubble is a fictional creature who has lived a long and happy life with a beautiful family and strong ties to the community.

 

Business

Directed by Kati Skelton

A terrified young man gets caught up in a surreal and demoralizing ‘business opportunity.’ Will he make it out alive?

 

Magic Ranch

Directed by Eamon Monaghan

Two ranch hands try to work through their personal problems and perform a weekly magic show.

 

Balloonfest

Directed by Nathan Truesdell

A Rust Belt city attempts to reclaim its pride by releasing millions of balloons into the skies.

 

Brooklyn Comedy Festival – BRUNCH SHORTS PROGRAM 1

The 2017 Shorts program is…hard to describe. If you’re too busy to take a mescaline-laced road trip to a strange city with your funniest friends, just come and watch these shorts. It’ll feel pretty much the same, and you won’t have to pay for gas. Featuring new work from Alan Resnick, Joe Firestone, Kati Skelton, Nathan Truesdale, and so, so, so much more.

 

This is That Night

Directed by Matt Braunsdorf

An innocuous fourth date between Jon and Kris evolves into a marathon conversation as they begin to really fall for each other. However, once they call out how well it’s going, all bets are off.

 

Petals

Directed by Ryan Bennett and Max Rosen

Man goes by the name “Petals”, rolls into town and boy, oh boy.

 

Buzz

Directed by Mitch Magee

A codependent woman has her life disrupted when her servile best friend wants to move out of their isolated mountain home to be with a man. She hatches an unusual plan to ensure she will never be alone. Patrick Carroll (Hail, Caeser!) plays Buzz, the object of such contentious desire, alongside James Pumphrey (FX’s You’re The Worst).

 

Ewwww

Directed by Alexei Slate

A couple’s first date ends with a rather unwelcome revelation. This comedy/sexhorror mashup is built like a grand mystery. See if you can spot the clues along the way.

 

Weird Creatures

Directed by Manolo Moreno

 

Johnny Bubble

Directed by Alan Resnick

Johnny Bubble is a fictional creature who has lived a long and happy life with a beautiful family and strong ties to the community.

 

Business

Directed by Kati Skelton

A terrified young man gets caught up in a surreal and demoralizing ‘business opportunity. Will he make it out alive?

 

Magic Ranch

Directed by Eamon Monaghan

Two ranch hands try to work through their personal problems and perform a weekly magic show.

 

Balloonfest (Documentary)

Directed by Nathan Truesdell

Cleveland attempts to overcome its nickname, ‘The Mistake by the Lake’, by launching a bunch of balloons.

Sex House

One of the most under-seen and under-appreciated works of satire in our time, Sex House is a hidden masterpiece. In 2012, the year of the Mayan apocalypse, The Onion’s digital studios released Sex House, a web-exclusive pitch-black satire of the hungry, incompetent void that is America’s reality-show driven culture in the 21st century. We’ll be screening a never-before-seen unified cut of the whole series and then speaking with the writers and director whom society must hold responsible. Look upon my webseries, ye mighty. And despair.

Wild, Aggressive Dog is a writing collective that formed while at The Onion in NYC where they created video products such as Sex House, Porkin’ Across America, Lake Dredge Appraisal, Dr. Good, and Onion Talks. After The Onion, W,AD teamed up with producer Becca Kinskey and Abominable Pictures to created for Adult Swim the infomercials For Profit Online University, Smart Pipe, Book of Christ and the unaired pilot Dumb American Family. They are Sam West, Chris Sartinsky, Matt Klinman, Geoff Haggerty, Mike Pielocik and Dan Klein. They are all presently in good health.

Neighborhood Food Drive

Convinced that hosting a lavish charity fundraiser will improve the public image of their unpopular restaurant, two women hire an intern to help them plan and execute a neighborhood food drive. Despite their somewhat good intentions, the team quickly succumbs to petulance and laziness. They make repeat attempts—trying to maintain positive attitudes—but cosmic maladies cripple their efforts and they soon find themselves doomed.

Village People

When Alan’s wife flakes on a last-ditch effort to save their marriage, he’s joined by his all too eager brother-in-law Mike on a trip to Nicaragua’s ‘Mercado Village,’ a hipster resort for American tourists. As the two settle in, they meet Barbara, an American ex-pat who co-founded Mercado Village years earlier as a utopian haven for artists and free spirits. As Alan’s relationship with Barbara evolves, his friendship with Mike takes an unexpected turn.

Snowy Bing Bongs Across the North Star Combat Zone

This blissfully bonkers whatzit from unclassifiable dance-comedy trio Cocoon Central Dance Team is part psychotropic performance art spectacle, part absurdist sketch show. The three Bing Bongs—Tallie Medel, Sunita Mani & Eleanore Pienta—lounge about, pass gas, and periodically break into wondrously strange dance routines, with outer space interludes, a serious consideration of doctor boners, and a 90s-style girl group meltdown along the way. It all plays like a live action cartoon piped in from a cotton-candy-colored alternate universe.  

The Friends of Eddie Coyle

In one of the best performances of his legendary career, Robert Mitchum plays small-time gunrunner Eddie “Fingers” Coyle in an adaptation by Peter Yates of George V. Higgins’s acclaimed novel The Friends of Eddie Coyle. World-weary and living hand to mouth, Coyle works on the sidelines of the seedy Boston underworld just to make ends meet. But when he finds himself facing a second stretch of hard time, he’s forced to weigh loyalty to his criminal colleagues against snitching to stay free. Directed with a sharp eye for its gritty locales and an open heart for its less-than-heroic characters, this is one of the true treasures of 1970s Hollywood filmmaking—a suspenseful crime drama in stark, unforgiving daylight.

Orlando

Starring: Tilda Swinton, Billy Zane, Lothaire Bluteau, John Wood, Charlotte Valandrey

In 1600, nobleman Orlando (Tilda Swinton) inherits his parents’ house, thanks to Queen Elizabeth I, who commands the young man to never change. After a disastrous affair with Russian princess Sasha, Orlando looks for solace in the arts before being appointed ambassador to Constantinople in 1700, where war is raging. One morning, Orlando is shocked to wake up as a woman and returns home, struggling as a female to retain her property as the centuries roll by.