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dreamers and trailer park characters
as good as it gets
Delusional Dreamers At Their Best
captures true essence of real people
Clive Barker's Mule Skinner Blues..........

Mule Skinner Blues
Starring: Lance Hallowell , Raymond Dagley , Tim White (XII) , Beanie Andrew , and Yancy Spencer IV
Director: Stephen Earnhart
Manufacturer: Sundance Channel Home Entertainment
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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Vernon, Florida
Black Christmas (Special Edition)

ASIN: B00009MGG2
Release Date: 2003-08-26

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Beanie Andrew has been possessed with making his own B-grade horror film. He rallies his fellow trailer park friends to fulfill his bizarre vision: to "rise from beneath the murky swamps behind the local junkyard in a blue ape suit and look for his severed arm." As Beanie strives to make his film, the viewer explores the lives, dreams, hopes and realities of his supportive friends as they each search for their own paths to artistic self-expression. With a fresh and inventive style, this visually stunning film is a four-year magical mystery tour through the underbelly of trailer park society.

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dreamers and trailer park characters .......2006-11-20

Creative energy and lively off beat charcters that entertain with personality and charisma as we learn who these folks are. Good music.

as good as it gets.......2006-08-15

i just finished watching this dvd for the 2nd time and like usually the 2nd,3rd,4th time around even hits harder. well this film has made my life better today. i am a creative person i write and i sing and i do all sorts of things.and the wild part is that i have been very succesful in 35 years of doing this. a lot furthur down the road than any of the people in this film could even imagine of doing. i have been depressed lately becasue i have been on a cold run, i have been very creative, but no one is biting on the product, and that has led me to really question why i do this....the answer came in this film, it is because i have that love and devotion for the creative process............all i wanna do right now is write a song and record it....simple as that....i gotta learn more about the director and more about how and why this film was shot, but it a masterpiece.............in everyway....the world is full of dreamers but sometimes the dreamers get there dreams mixed up with the business of creativity and there could be nothing futhur from the real truth about how and why music and film and all sorts of things are done. i am so thankful i got to see this film on this day. i feel like it has turned the corner for me and i cannot wait to get around the next curve...rock on beanie you s.o.b. and all you people, i love ya...stephen allen davis muspac@aol.com

Delusional Dreamers At Their Best.......2005-02-12

Where to begin. Hmm . . .

First, let me say that this documentary deserves three-and-a-half stars. It didn't get a four or five star rating because it just isn't the type of film that most viewers will "get". Some will rent or buy this and turn it off after the first fifteen minutes, poo-pooing the concept of filming---basically---a reality show in a trailer park community. Others will be riveted to the screen by its intense, real-life people who are flawed, and, somewhat delusional. But along with the delusion comes a dream; the dream of filming a horror movie for the silver screen. Can a group of alcoholics, a set of marginally talented musicians, and a woman who keeps a dead dog in her freezer (all set in a trailer park) really succeed on any level?

And the answer is an amazing "yes".

The "dream" of the horror movie surrounds these "real" people and spans about three years during which the filming takes place, relationships are strengthened or shattered, alcoholics relapse, the director becomes homeless, but the film still makes it into a local theater.

The "delusion" surrounds several of the trailer park residents (mainly Beanie Andrew...the director and the mover and shaker behind the film) who believe that their movie is superior to any ever made. Several times Mr. Andrew says this, and I cringe at his words and his delusional state that would make him believe---even for a minute---that his film could rate higher than "The Creature From the Black Lagoon" or "Five Million Years to Earth" or other low-budget films (although "low-budget" is pretty relative). But Mr. Andrew makes no distinctions between low-budget or top-dollar films.

Even with these flaws, these delusions, the film is interesting because of the content, and these men and women who choose to live their lives on the fringes of the down and trodden. And even though they live on this precarious precipice, they had enough imagination, initiative, and enough of a dream, to see that their movie got made.

Congratulations to the delusional few!

captures true essence of real people.......2003-12-13

WOW! What a great film that gives those without a clue a slice of reality and really entertains those of us who can relate. "Don't be a wish-a-woulda"

Clive Barker's Mule Skinner Blues.................2002-06-30

Destine to become a cult classic for alcoholics everywhere,"Mule Skinner Blues" conveys a message of hope for every poor, down-and-out individual.

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