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film fan finding:bottom feeder

(Screened at the Gasparilla Film Festival.) 

Bottom Feeder is a scathing look at anger, racism and hatred. This short film shows one day in the R-rated life of a loan shark (played by writer/director Wayne Gurman), following him as he drives around collecting money, starting arguments, beating people up, harassing women and just generally being a major jerk.  There are some truly hysterical moments in this movie, and some deeply disturbing ones too.  The Annoying Movie Theater Audience Awards fantasy sequence was great and something anyone who’s been to a movie theater lately can relate to. (Although, thankfully I’ve never had a drug dealer sit behind me in a theater loudly making drug deals on his cell phone during the movie.)

Gurman makes some interesting points about prejudice, beginning with the fact that his character is an outspoken bigot who won’t tolerate any negative comments about his African-American wife or his bi-racial children, and ending with the life lesson his character learns the hard way at the end of the film.  Bottom Feeder is filthy and funny.

Film Fan Finding: B+