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Unstreamable - Poison Ivy [In-Person Only]
Sat Jan 07: 7.00pm PDT
Sun Jan 08: 7.00pm PDT
$13 General Admission
$10 Student/Child/Senior
$7 Member
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*** Unstreamable's Jas Keimig and Chase Burns will introduce each screening. ***
About
(Katt Shea, US, 1992, 93 min, in English)
Drew Barrymore, in her breakout role, has a taste for seduction, shitty tattoos, and pushing people off of beautiful marble balconies. All she wants is love!
New Line Cinema initially conscripted Katt Shea to direct a Fatal Attraction with teenagers, she told Dazed. Instead, Shea threw the big studio execs a big middle finger and made a sexed up and weirdly earnest movie about probably the worst friend breakup ever.
This pulpy erotic thriller stars a fresh-out-of-rehab Drew Barrymore as the titular Ivy, an opportunistic teen homewrecker who strikes up a lesbian-esque friendship with the cranky, wealthy Sylvie (Roseannes Sara Gilbert). Quickly, Ivy moves into Sylvies mansion, where the young temptress starts to wreak havoc. She raids Sylvies dying (and hot) mothers closet and graphically seduces Sylvies weak-willed conservative father, played by a nervous-looking Tom Skerritt. As Ivys thirst for love and attention grows stronger, this moneyed family starts to break.
Incensed by the film, New Line Cinema demanded Shea make Ivy pay for her horny crimes. Shea vehemently disagreed and refused to shoot an ending until months after production ended. We wont spoil what happens to the teen seductress, but the studio worked hard to ensure the film tanked at the box office. The studio eventually harvested the IP to make three direct-to-video spinoffs without Shea. But the 1992 film persisted, finding an audience on the home video market. Its since become a cult favorite. True taste reigns supreme.
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