Event Details
Frank and Cindy Movie Screening
Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 4:00pm
Center Stage, 751 Paseo Nuevo, Santa Barbara
Event Description
As heard on KCLU's Cross Talk, GJ Echternkamp presents a screening of his hit movie, Frank and Cindy at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival.
About the film:
When Cindy married a rock star, Frank, in 1983 she imagined a life of glamour and GRAMMYS. But the song that propelled Frank to fame, Whirly Girl, would be the only chart-topper from his short-lived group, OXO. Years later, out of shape and nearly bankrupt after spending his money on "gas, food, dry cleaning and drugs." Frank is not the vision Cindy married.
Desperate to resuscitate her dream, Cindy furnishes a new studio for Frank in hopes he'll record another hit. Instead, he'd rather drink. Upset by his lack of ambition, Cindy berates him incessantly ("I hate every fat bone in your body!"). And now, twenty-three years after appearing on American Bandstand, Frank lives sequestered to the basement where he uses coffee cans as his improvised bathroom.
Both appalled and amused by his parents' behavior, Cindy's filmmaker son, G.J., picks up his video camera and aims it at them. After a year of filming, what began as an attempt to mock his one-hit-wonder step-father, instead becomes a candid portrait of the pursuit of happiness.
- Sponsored By
Santa Barbara International Film Festival, Bionic Films
- More Information
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Web site: http://www.frankandcindy.com
