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My Life with Morrissey

It's going to be a fantasy wedding in more ways than one.

My Life with Morrissey

My Life With Morrissey is a comic, fictional story of obsessive love and abject fandom. Very much in the vein of Ghost World and American Splendour, it stretches the boundaries just a wee bit further.

The film chronicles the adventures of an off-kilter career girl whose life goes completely berserk after she meets her idol, Irish rock star Morrissey who, as the former Smiths frontman remains a towering figure in the Britrock pantheon.

Jackie is a hard working production assistant at a Los Angeles television studio. Dedicated to her job with a naive enthusiasm, she's both charming and totally incompetent. While the office bitch-squad does target her for sadistic humiliation, most of her co-workers tolerate her quirkiness with humor.

My Life with Morrissey

After hours, she returns home to an unabashed shrine. Jackie sleeps on Moz sheets, crammed between wall to wall photos, posters, and even sculptures of … you know who. Mornings begin with cheery wake-up kisses to a favorite headshot. At the end of the day there are tongue dancing sessions with the life-sized, horizontal, bedside poster, followed by vibrator-propelled fantasies and shouted admonitions to "Keep those fresh hands to yourself, Mister!" You get the idea.

Even on the mean streets of Hollywood, Jackie never walks alone. Most nights she's out there - way out there - revisiting the scenes of rumored sightings and taking inebriated crawls through his likely haunts.

One fateful night, Jackie does by chance encounter Morrissey, and she hurtles into an all-Morrissey-all-the time fantasy zone once and for all. Nice day for a white wedding, indeed.

Touching and humorous, but definitely not for the prudish, this bizarre comedy takes a sometimes disturbing look at life, love, and the search for fulfillment in the otherwise vapid life of an obsessed fan. Director Andrew Overtoom (currently directing the animated SpongeBob SquarePants series and upcoming movie) evokes avante garde cultural sources that range from underground cartoons and graphic novels to the works of George Kuchar (think I Was A Teenage Rumpot gone 'big' budget). The result is a spectacularly entertaining outrage, powered by a rock soundtrack featuring the likes of Nerf Herder, Aberdeen, and Hi-Five. And we should probably mention that one of the great comedic flourishes of the film is that neither Morrissey himself nor any of his music ever appear in the film: the fleeting glimpse we get is a portrayal by real life Moz-impersonator Jose Maldonado.

Chris Gore of Film Threat has called My Life With Morrissey "One of the best damn films to cross our desks in, like, forever."



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