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Legendary animator Bill Plympton’s delirious and demented feature opens with two birds mating in midflight (“Ah, good taste, what a dreadful thing!” as the film cheekily quotes Picasso). The birdy love accidentally leads to a beam of misdirected TV satellite energy erupting a telekinetic boil on the neck of newlywed Grant (voiced by Tom Larson), which causes havoc in his marriage to his darling wife Keri (voiced by Charis Michelsen). Are you still with us? Good, because you’re in for a nonstop stream of Plympton’s classic surreal non sequiturs and mind-bending visual puns involving Chia pets, fingernail dirt, assaults by bugs at the dinner table, riding mower antics and spontaneous eruptions of wonderfully deranged music (courtesy of frequent collaborator Maureen McElheron) with lyrics like "Would you love me if I blew up a deli / Got a big fat belly and became real smelly?" The mysteriously powerful boil on Grant’s neck eventually attracts the notice of the voracious Smilecorp, leading to an all-out battle for control of the wandering carbuncle. As Grant says mildly, "I'm really sorry about all that, but it's been a very weird day for me."
FEATURES:
Two classic Plympton shorts:
-“Guide Dog” (2006, 6 min.), newly scanned & restored for this release
-“The Loneliest Stoplight” (2015, 6 min.), narrated by Patton Oswalt
New video interview with Bill Plympton about the making of STRANGE PERSON!, moderated by Dennis Bartok of Deaf Crocodile
New commentary track by animation producer and podcaster Adam Rackoff, podcaster and film critic James Hancock and longtime Plympton collaborator John Holderried of Plymptoons Studio
New artwork by Beth Morris
Hard slipcase featuring new artwork by Bill Plympton!
60-page illustrated book with Introductions by: Patton Oswalt and Producer/writer Chris Miller (THE LEGO MOVIE) AND Animation historian Jerry Beck
New essay by film critic and author Walter Chaw
New essay by animation historian David B. Levy
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