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News & ArtsWednesday, June 10, 2009
Drugs / Film The Sympathetic Junkie
Posted by Brendan Kiley on Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 9:12 AM
It didn't make it into next week's paper, but Boppin' at the Glue Factory—at this year's Seattle True Independent Film Festival (STIFF)—is a surprisingly sweet comedy given its subject: a junkie who works as a night nurse at an old-folks' home so he can steal their Dilaudid.
The other nurses are bitter jerks (life just isn't as rosy without a vast supply of narcotics) but our night nurse is a benign, pleasant schemer who lives in his car and makes nice with the residents—especially an old saxophone player whose name sounds suspiciously like Pharoah Sanders.
The night nurse lets Sanders play loud jazz and smoke pot in his room in exchange for those precious little vials. It all gets complicated, of course, but the druggies win (more or less).
Henry Dittman plays the night nurse and his impenetrable smirk looks an awful lot like Dexter's.
(Sympathetic serial killer, sympathetic junkie/thief—is this the beginning of a trend? Unconscious backlash against the finger-waving moralism of the the past eight years?)
The movie plays tomorrow at the Rendezvous.
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