Imagine Napoleon Dynamite's cousins started a band and kidnapped David Lynch.
Phil and Colin Beverly are two inept small-town brothers with big dreams, and a song-and-dance rock group to take them there. When they learn of a 'performance competition' in Austin, Texas called South by Southwest, they set out on a cross-country journey, followed by a camera crew of student filmmakers who document their quest to the top! The top of what, they have no idea.
Acting
Woodend and Dilley's committed awkwardness feels accidentally authentic.
Direction
Student filmmakers as diegetic camera — meta without being clever-clever.
Director
Jake Dilley
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Farrelly Brothers' cameo nods to their own Rhode Island roots, grounding this in a specific New England delusion economy.
Walter Day — the Twin Galaxies arcade referee from 'King of Kong' — appears as himself, confirming this exists in the same loser-hero documentary universe.
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