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$15.99THE REINACTORSDocumentary

Cat#: WGP023 UPC: 7 5318245023 0 THE REINACTORS

OFFICIAL SELECTION OF:• International Film Festival Rotterdam 2008

• Buenos Aires International Film Festival 2008 (Buenos Aires, Argentina)

• Indie Lisboa Film Festival 2008 (Lisbon, Portugal)

• USA Film Fest 2008 (Dallas, Texas)

• Bunker Film Festival 2008 (Veritmiglia, Italy)

• Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival 2008

(PIFAN) (Bucheon, Korea)

• New York United Film Festival 2008 (NY, NY)

• RIDM Les Rencontres internationales du documentair

de Montreal 2008 (Montreal, Canada)

• International Luanda Film Festival 2008 (Luanda, Angola)

• Clair-Obscur Film Festival 2009 (Basil, Switzerland)

• Unknown Pleasures Film Festival 2010 (Berlin, Germany)

The exploits and misadventures of film character impersonators and celebrity look-a-likes on Hollywood Boulevard over the span of a year. Recognizable characters and stars of movies are portrayed by anyone who chooses to buy the costume and brave the mean streets of Hollyweird. Freddy Kruger works alongside Superman, Shrek, Borat and Lucy Ricardo. Competing Chewbaccas, Batmans, Spidermen and Captian Jack Sparrows vie for a spot on the limited real estate of The Walk Of Fame. These street characters have big dreams of breaking into the big-time, if they can keep themselves out of jail or their hands from each other’s neck.

These characters are literally right out of the movies, yet the unforeseen drama of the people underneath the make-up threatens to eclipse the bizarre array of Hollywood film icons they appropriate. Like a great-depression era Hollywood classic retold for the new millennium, The Reinactors is a film about the cutthroat nature backstage and behind the scenes of show business. A profound statement on where we are at culturally in America at the moment. An 'American Idol' on crack, if you will.

“A thoughtful portrait of life at the waking end of the Hollywood dream one more far recognizable than any studio creation." – Jason Sanders, FilmMaker magazine

A bittersweet look at a tribe of desperate dreamers. David Markey dives deep into the subterranean nooks and crannies of this bizarre subculture and surfaces with cinematic gold."- Ann Magnuson, The Paper

**** 1/2 Stars "These characters are endearing, somewhat scary, but all are interesting. A wonderful, compassionate study of Hollywood oddballs."-Bernard Perusse, The Montreal Gazette