Neil Cuthbert

The great Hollywood director Preston Sturges dies while dictating his autobiography at the Algonquin Hotel in New York. Realizing that he is a ghost who cannot leave this world (or his hotel room) until he discovers the thing that’s holding him back, he plunges into his past, where he wrestles with his demons and makes peace with the major players in his life, including Howard Hughes, Isadora Duncan, numerous ex-lovers and wives, and his mother. A comedy about coming to terms with failure, success, genius, love, and death.

David, a young television executive, experiences a matrimonial meltdown when his broadcaster wife, Stacy, is possessed by the spirit of Joseph Stalin. As the infamous dictator plots to use Stacy’s career to achieve world media domination, David must confront his own moral turpitude as he struggles to find a way to get Stacy back. But the game changes when Stalin falls in love with being a woman… and with David. A pair of Stalin hunting Russian monks, Stacy’s WASPy mother, and a gaggle of backbiting New York media types help bring the concoction to a boil.

The volcanic tensions between three generations of a middle class WASP family erupt on a Saturday in 1976. The father‘s drinking again, the daughter’s dancing at a topless joint, the son‘s writing a semi-pornographic science fiction novel in his pajamas, and the racist grandmother has come for lunch… on the wrong day. Mag, the peacemaker mother, tries to hold it all together, but the arrival of a handsome, mysterious stranger detonates the blast, and she finally explodes. When the dust settles, the truth has been told, a new matriarch has emerged, and the family has survived and launched into a new generation. A dark comedy about racism, alcoholism, motherhood, hating the ones you love… and loving the ones you hate.