Pittsburgh DUers, tomorrow night!

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Hey Pittsburghers, tomorrow night you can catch my film, the wild underground political comedy Washington Interns Gone Bad! It's playing at the Funnybone Comedy Club, 242 W. Station Square Drive, doors at 7, films start at 8. The cover is $5 and they will be selling $2 Yeungling bottles. Watch the trailer at http://www.WashingtonInternsGoneBad.com and see below for a synopsis.

It’s Becky’s first day on the job interning for the congressman. After a full day of answering the phone and taking a fake tally of constituents’ opinions, she’s ready to cut loose and party. But she soon realizes that she’s in way over her head when a partisan argument at the party between Elizabeth, the congressman’s chief of staff, and some republican interns turns into a rooftop death-match.


Between Elizabeth putting her in the line of danger and a kinky congressman devising ways in which to have “sexual relations with that woman,” Becky manages to find love, question her beliefs and do the right thing in a classically comedic way with a political twist.

The first film in the burgeoning intern exploitation genre, Washington Interns Gone Bad is also the first feature by writer/director Jason Buckley. It was produced for under $1000: shot on digital video; edited on desktop computers; lit with 100 watt utility lamps; sets created mostly in the director and producers’ homes and offices; and costumed from the actors’ closets. Additionally, the filmmakers made much use of Washington’s many great locations such as the Mall and monuments, Malcolm X Park, Adams Morgan bars, Shaw alleyways, and building rooftops.


Cast member and journalist David Barrows described the uniquely collaborative and interwoven production dynamic in his article from the November 2002 issue of the Intowner: “Not only did the film crew get some help from DC Indymedia, Washington Film and Sound, and the Mintwood Media Collective, this multi-level collaboration includes the contributions of Adams Morgan musicians: Adam Kroloff of the Captain Paradox band, who used to play at Madams Organ, not only provides musical backgrounds, but he presents himself as a member of Congress; Marisa Torrieri, who successfully plays the annoyingly innocent heroine ready to be sacrificed to our capital’s own twisted Disneyland, has co-written a song to join the vast hopping soundtrack.”

“Co-producer and dynamic actress Elizabeth Croydon (as well versed in Shakespeare as she was in Bush counter-inauguration meetings and demonstrations, the same baton-twirling leader of the World Bank “Draggin’ Dragon”) appears as the queen of compulsive neurotics in this robust romp – where fringe, out of control politicos, do-gooders, and the gullible collide with a delicious cleanse-the-palate ending.”


What people are saying about Washington Interns Gone Bad:

"I gotta tell you, it really shakes my faith in human nature.” Seeing this film “will not be on my list of top 10 things to do." –Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA)

“Monumental Stupidity: Buckley and Croydon make D.C.’s interns look dumb and dumber.” -- Shauna Miller, Washington City Paper

“I make Washington Interns go bad.” –Bill Maher