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PIRATES OF THE GREAT SALT LAKE
E.R. Nelson
2006, USA, Narrative, 86 minutes
“Totally off-the-wall.” – San Francisco Chronicle
“These wannabe pirates are very much in Napoleon Dynamite mode.” – Variety
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Yarrrr! Director and co-writer E.R. Nelson makes an unforgettable debut with this intelligent,
hilarious, tongue-in-cheek, character-driven, action hybrid of Don Quixote and Pirates of the
Caribbean. It’s got it all - ghosts, heroes, villains, the plank, plenty of eyeliner, brine flies, a
hint of the love that dare not speak its name, and a cave (because it’s not a pirate movie without a
cave.
Kirk Redgrave (Kirby Heyborne, last seen at the Idaho Film Festival in Sons of Provo) and
Flint Weaver met three short weeks ago. Both of them were twenty-something outcasts and loners in
their landlocked home, but together they share a dream to become the best buccaneers the world has ever seen. Kirk and Flint take the pirate code to heart and slowly set out (in a leaky boat) for a
life of pillaging and plunder.
Still, pirate life isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. For Kirk, it’s a life of failure; for Flint,
one without reward. When the pair runs across a long-lost treasure map, they must battle a wicked
rival to fulfill their wildest pirate dreams and claim the booty – which may or may not be cursed.
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Egyptian Theatre, Friday, September 29th at 7:00pm
The Flicks, Saturday, September 30th at 9:30pm
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