Full Grown Men

Infobox Film
name = Full Grown Men


caption =
director = David Munro
producer = Brian Benson Xandra Castleton
Alan Cumming David Ilku David Munro Paul Zaentz Sheila B. Ennis Donna Garrison Lawrence Lippman Scott Karpf Todd Tiberi
writer = David Munro Xandra Castleton
narrator =
starring = Matt McGrath Judah Friedlander Alan Cumming Amy Sedaris Deborah Harry
music = [http://www.charliecampbell.com/ Charlie Campbell]
cinematography = Frank G. DeMarco
editing = Alex Blatt Affonso Gonçalves
distributor =
released = flagicon|United States April 27, 2006 (Tribeca Film Festival)
runtime =
country = US
website = http://www.fullgrownmenthemovie.com/
amg_id = 1:348195
imdb_id = 0407814

"Full Grown Men", winner of the 2007 indieWIRE: Undiscovered Gems Film Series Audience Award competition, is an American independent comedy film directed by David Munro and starring Matt McGrath, Judah Friedlander, Alan Cumming, Amy Sedaris, and Deborah Harry. It is the bittersweet story of a thirtysomething man with family who grudgingly realizes it is time to trade adolescence for adulthood.

Plot

Alby Cutrera is a pathologically nostalgic guy who, at 35 years of age with a wife and young son, really just wishes he could ride his Schwinn 5 speed around all day on a Cherry Slurpee high.

His wife Suzanne and son Josh love him because he's funny and creative but for Suzanne it’s getting old and there’s rent to pay. Finally losing patience with Alby, Suzanne kicks him out of the house with the unequivocal instruction: "Don't come back 'til you grow up!"

Alby's having none of "that" and does what any hopeless case of arrested-development would do - he goes back to Mom's house. There, after having his fill of eating Fruit Loops and watching cartoons on TV, he decides to look up his old best friend from childhood, Elias Guber.

Alby is "thrilled" to get back with his old pal and relive old times, but there’s a problem – Elias remembers a much less rosy version of their childhood - one in which he was Alby’s performing monkey. But as always, Elias can't resist Alby's entreaties to take him along on a trip to Diggityland, a theme park up in central Florida that was their favorite place as kids. Elias is going there to get an award for his work as a special-ed teacher, a decidedly "grown-up" occupation, while Alby needs a ride up the coast to sell his precious action figures to a collectibles broker – a move he thinks will reinstate him in the good graces of his family and signal his transition into adulthood.

Along the way the two friends meet a series of similarly damaged romantics: a hitchhiking disgruntled former employee of Diggityland who has a "little matter to settle with the management"; Trina, a horny bartender who attends "Clownin' School" in hopes of earning her "Clownin' Degree" and joining the Circus; and a delusional fading beauty who lives in an Airstream trailer and obsesses over her past glory as the most beautiful and popular Weeki Wachee mermaid. Each pokes a new hole in Alby’s fantasy bubble of being a kid forever.

Ultimately it’s one of Elias’s students, a developmentally disabled boy named Rollie, a boy literally "denied by fate" the chance to ever become an adult, who teaches Alby the value of seeing beyond himself and taking responsibility for his actions.

Cast

Festival Screenings

* [http://www.artic.edu/webspaces/siskelfilmcenter/ Gene Siskel Film Center] Chicago Indie Comedy Sneak Preview!
June 22, 2007
June 25, 2007
* [http://www.ptownfilmfest.org/ Provincetown International Film Festival]
June 15, 2007
June 16, 2007
* [http://mendocinofilm.pnn.com/ Mendocino Film Festival] Mendocino, California
May 18, 2007
* [http://www.floridafilmfestival.com/ Florida Film Festival] Orlando, Florida
March 30, 2007
March 31, 2007
* [http://www.miamifilmfestival.com/ Miami International Film Festival]
March 09, 2007PM
March 10, 2007
* [http://www.cinequest.org/ Cinequest - San Jose Film Festival]
March 3, 2007
March 4, 2007
March 5, 2007
* [http://www.afi.com/onscreen/afifest/2006/ American Film Institute Fest] Los Angeles
November 3, 2006
November 4, 2006
* [http://www.williamstownfilmfest.com/ Williamstown Film Festival] Williamstown, Massachusetts
October 22, 2006
* [http://mvff.com/node/1653/ Mill Valley Film Festival] Mill Valley, California
West Coast Premiere
October 7-15, 2006
* [http://www.cinevegas.com/2007/ CineVegas Film Festival] Las Vegas
June 9-17, 2006
* [http://www.tribecafilmfestival.org/ Tribeca Film Festival] New YorkWorld Premiere
April 27 - May 5, 2006

External links

* [http://www.fullgrownmenthemovie.com/ Official website]
*imdb title|id=0407814|title=Full Grown Men
* [http://allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=1:348195/ All Movie Guide profile]
* [http://www.nerve.com/nerveblog/tribeca2006.aspx?id=104e4600#4600/ Review at Nerve.com]
* [http://nymag.com/movies/reviews/16813/ New York Magazine review]