NUTS! Goat Testicle Documentary This Weekend at Webster University

The documentary NUTS!, directed by Penny Lane, screens at Webster University’s Moore Auditorium (470 East Lockwood) September 9th though the 11th. The film starts each night at 7:30pm

Nuts! is a feature length documentary about Dr. John Romulus Brinkley, an eccentric genius who built an empire in Depression-era America with a goat testicle impotence cure and a million watt radio station.  Using animated reenactments, interviews, archival footage, and a hilariously unreliable narrator, Nuts! traces Brinkley’s rise from poverty and obscurity to the heights of celebrity, wealth and influence. Along the way, he transplants tens of thousands of goat testicles; amasses an enormous fortune; is (sort of) elected Governor of Kansas; builds the world’s most powerful radio station; invents junk mail, the infomercial, the sound-truck and Border Radio; hosts some epic parties; and annoys the heck out of the establishment, until finally his audacious actions force the federal government to create regulations to stop him.

The critics are going nuts over NUTS!

Michael Snydel at Paste Magazine says:

“….NUTS! is, on the whole, an incredibly entertaining and clever film that understands and constantly sidesteps the easy tropes of the genre.”

Glen Dunks of Film Experience says:

“…..NUTS! is a marvel of storytelling – both in the old fashioned sense of a good yarn, and in the sense that editing and scripting leave the viewer genuinely unaware of where this spectacular story is going.”

Claudia Puig at The Wrap claims:

“….This savvy director plays with history and viewers’ conceptions of traditional documentary filmmaking, expounding in a way upon Stephen Colbert’s concept of “truthiness.”

Admission is:

$6 for the general public
$5 for seniors, Webster alumni and students from other schools
$4 for Webster University staff and faculty

Free for Webster students with proper I.D.

Advance tickets are available from the cashier before each screening or contact the Film Series office (314-246-7525) for more options. The Film Series can only accept cash or check.

The Webster University Film Series site can be found HERE

http://www.webster.edu/film-series/