TERMINAL USA
dir. Jon Moritsugu, 1993
57 mins. United States.

THURSDAY, JULY 4 -7:30
MONDAY, JULY 8 - 7:30 PM
SATURDAY, JULY 20 - 7:30 PM
FRIDAY, JULY 26 - 10 PM (Phone Call w/ Jon Moritsugu & Amy Davis)
WEDNESDAY, JULY 31 - 7:30 PM (ORIGINAL ROUGH CUT! + Q&A w/ cinematographer, Todd Verow)

Family comes first in this disaster portrait of a comically depraved Japanese-American household on the verge of Armageddon. Wholesome suburban sitcom sensibilities are thoroughly contorted through a deliciously deranged cocktail of vices and filthy secrets all wedged under one roof. Any hopes of quality time deteriorate into a feverish shitstorm, just before dinner.

While pill-popping mom and homicidal-minded dad are busy reprimanding their nihilist junkie son, Kazumi (Moritsugu), his pregnant, nymphomaniacal cheerleader sister desperately tries to keep a blackmailing sex tape under wraps, and the protractor-wielding prodigy twin brother, Marvin (also Moritsugu), harbors a secret lust for skinheads. As Kazumi casually bleeds out from a gash dealt by debt-collecting drug dealers, his fashion-damaged girlfriend, Eight-Ball (Amy Davis), is of no help, as she may have an extraterrestrial agenda of her own.

Laying to utter waste the dignified image of the “model minority” in perhaps the most gnarly soap-opera to ever be funded by PBS and aired on televisions across America, TERMINAL USA gives new meaning to the term dysfunctional.

Preceded by the shorts BRAINDEAD (1987) and DER ELVIS (1988).