Our story begins in 1979, with a chance meeting in a Salt Lake City parking lot where filmmaker Trent Harris is approached by an earnest small-town dreamer from Beaver, Utah. Harris jumps at the chance when the young man invites him to come to the small town to film a talent show. At the show, the man dons a blond wig and performs in drag as Olivia Newton John. Harris captures it all on tape: A portrait of a true outsider. Harris shot a dramatic piece, "Beaver Kid 2" based on the documentary; This interpretation of the story, made in 1981 on a home video camera with a budget of $100, features a young Sean Penn as "the Beaver Kid". Still possessed, Harris then rewrote the script, cast up-and-comer Crispin Glover in the lead, and created the final segment, "The Orkly Kid", with funding from the American Film Institute. The trilogy unveils the inner world of a fantastic character in three incarnations.
Clerk
По недоразумению девушка попадает в женскую тюрьму, где правит жестокая начальница и сидят враждебные заключенные.
Frau im Bus
Berlin Film Fest 1984. The best place for every cinema fan. Everyone wants to be in on the festival, but that may be really difficult, if one has no accreditation. Also Journalist Matthies gets to know the rules of being in or out when he wants to see a screening and is not welcome. Thus he watches an old German silent flick which he is barely interested in. The next day the newspapers are full of reports about a newly discovered German masterpiece from the silent era. It seems that Matthies had luck. He just saw *the* film everybody is talking about now. Also everybody is speculating about its director, who remains unknown. When Matthies talks to Ackrewa, an old befriended projectionist, about the film, the latter seems to recall the name of the director. Matthies decides to research the case. An odyssey into film-history begins and if it is successful Matthies will come up with a top story.
Doctor / Nurse / Orderly
Фильм, посвященный жизни и трагической судьбе одной из американских киноактрис 40-х годов — Фрэнсис Фармер.
Susan Curtis
The relationship between an embittered farm woman and her orphaned niece reaches a breaking point in this dark, psychological pastoral.
The Minister's Wife
Авантюрный тандем случайных попутчиков колесит по маленьким городкам Канзаса во времена Великой Депрессии и промышляет мелкими, почти невинными махинациями, чтобы хоть как-то заработать на хлеб. Он — мошенник-неудачник по имени Мозэс, продающий Библии одиноким вдовам, поблескивая фальшивым золотым зубом. Она — девятилетняя девочка-сирота с недюжинной склонностью к авантюрам и практически не расстающаяся с сигаретой.
