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Nuts! Nuts!

Penny Lane / USA / 2015 / 90 min / English

Nuts! is a feature length documentary about Dr. John Romulus Brinkley, an eccentric genius who discovered a goat testicle impotence cure.

Directed by Penny Lane, Written by Thom Stylinski, Original Music Brian McOmber, Illustrated & Animated By Drew Christie, Hazel Lee Santino, Michael Pisano, Rose Stark, Krystal Downs, Julia Veldman, Ace & Son Moving Picture Co., Llc, Concept Art & Character Design Hazel Lee Santino, Edited by Penny Lane, Thom Stylinski, Voices Andy Boswell, John Causby, Kelly Mizell, Jeff Pillars, Thom Stylinski, Fran Taylor, Executive Producers Dan Cogan, Elias Savada, Producers James Belfer, Caitlin Mae Burke, Penny Lane, Daniel Shepard, Co-producers David Armillei, Kara Janeczko, Production Gland Power Film, Cartuna Production, Distribution: Penny Lane

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Nuts! is a feature length documentary about Dr. John Romulus Brinkley, an eccentric genius who discovered a goat testicle impotence cure. The film traces Brinkley’s rise from poverty and obscurity to the heights of celebrity, wealth, and influence. Along the way, he transplants thousands of goat testicles, amasses an enormous fortune, is (sort of) elected Governor of Kansas, invents junk mail and the infomercial, builds the world’s most powerful radio station, and generally annoys the heck out of the establishment.

"I believe that more than any other single human quality, it is our love of great stories that makes us so endlessly susceptible to being conned. We believe the stories we want or need to believe, and we believe anyone who tells them to us. Con men know this. So do politicians, propagandists, pitchmen, cult leaders, televangelists, pick up artists and manipulators of all kinds – including documentary filmmakers.

And so, Nuts! is not a film that allows us to sit back and laugh at the dummies who fell for Brinkley’s bullshit. Instead, it’s a film that shows we are all those dummies. Unlike Brinkley, however, I seduce you, and then I show you how I did it. Brinkley’s story is not presented as the object of a neutral nonfiction gaze, but as an opportunity for viewers to actively wrestle with the ethical and epistemological issues central to the narrative nonfiction form."
- Penny Lane

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