Who is KK Downey?

(Canada, 2008, 87 mins)

digital video

Wisconsin Premiere

writer: Darren Curtis, Pat Kiely, Matt Silver
cinematographer: Bobby Shore
editor: Jared Curtis
executive producer: Paul Renaud, Jade Healy, John Lameray, David Fruchter, Charles D’Angelo, John Webb, Katye Stevens, Trevor Barnes
producer: Kieran Crilly, Brandi-Ann Milbradt, Darren Curtis, Pat Kiely
cast: Darren Curtis, Kristin Adams, Matt Silver, Pat Kiely, Dan Haber

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• www.whoiskkdowney.com
• Trailer

This riotous first feature by Montreal’s Kidnapper comedy troupe spoofs literary fakers JT LeRoy and James Frey, as well as the public who bought into their lowlife chic. When Theo's sordid novel Truck Stop Hustler is deemed unpublishable, he decides to bring his drug-addled fictional protagonist KK Downey to life in the form of his bandmate Terrance (played with gusto by co-director Darren Curtis, channeling a bit of Alan Cumming here). Repitched as KK’s sleazy autobiography, the book is a massive hit, its author is a cause célèbre, and things get very out of hand very, very quickly. Ridiculing the literary world’s creepy infatuation with junkie tell-alls, this hysterical comedy is loaded with gleeful one-liners and ridiculous twists. Silly and smart, Who is KK Downey? positions the Kidnapper gang as the heirs apparent to Canadian sketch legends The Kids in the Hall. “Touching, hilarious, and vulgar.” — Film Threat. Audience Award, 2008 Boston Underground; New Vision Award, 2008 Cinequest Film Festival.

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