Only Harmony Korine (writer of KIDS, auteur of GUMMO, JULIEN DONKEY-BOY) could weave Michael Jackson, Marilyn Monroe, her daughter Shirley Temple and flying nuns into a hypnotically funny and truly poignant tale of the instability behind fanaticism and the redemption we can hope to find in one another. The film follows a lonely Michael Jackson impersonator (Diego Luna) who is invited by a beautiful Marilyn Monroe (Samantha Morton) to a commune full of other impersonators including the Queen of England, Madonna, Sammy Davis Junior and James Dean, in the Scottish Highlands. In a parallel story line, the incomparable Werner Herzog plays a Latin American priest who learns his missionary of nuns can literally fly.
Opening May 2, 2008:
IFC Center - New York, NY
Opening May 9, 2008:
Kendall Square - Cambridge, MA
Ritz at the Bourse - Philadelphia, PA
E Street - Washington, DC
Laemmle's Sunset 5 - Los Angeles, CA
Opening May 16, 2008:
South Coast Village - Santa Ana, CA
The Belcourt - Nashville, TN
Northwest Film Forum - Seattle, WA
Opening May 23, 2008:
Midtown Art Cinema - Atlanta, GA
The Magnolia - Dallas, TX
Shattuck Cinemas - Berkeley, CA
Lumiere Theatres - San Francisco, CA
Camera 12 - San Jose, CA
Opening May 30, 2008:
Music Box - Chicago, IL
Main Art Theatre - Detroit, MI
Plaza Frontenac Cinema - St. Louis, MO
Opening June 6, 2008:
Dobie Theatre - Austin, TX
Tower - Sacramento, CA
Harbor East Theatre - Baltimore, MD
Opening June 13, 2008:
Guild Cinema - Albuquerque, NM
Gas Lamp - San Diego, CA
Nickelodeon - Santa Cruz, CA
Opening June 20, 2008:
Cedar Lee - Cleveland, OH
Gateway Theater - Columbus, OH
Starz Film Center - Denver, CO
Hollywood Theatre - Portland, OR
Opening June 27, 2008:
Chelsea - Chapel Hill, NC
Galaxy - Cary, NC
Regent Square - Pittsburgh, PA
Ballantyne Village - Charlotte, NC
Loft Cinema - Tucson, AZ
Opening July 4, 2008:
Railroad Square - Waterville, ME
Angelika - Houston, TX
Opening July 11, 2008:
Merrill Roxy - Burlington, VT
Real Art Ways - Hartford, CT
Cinemapolis - Ithaca, NY
Little Theater - Rochester, NY
Dundee Art - Omaha, NE
Opening July 18, 2008:
Capitol Theater - Olympia, WA
Opening July 25, 2008:
Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts - Grand Rapids, MI
Opening August 1, 2008:
Nickelodeon - Columbia, SC
Opening August 15, 2008:
The Screen - Santa Fe, NM