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AFF Presents...HERPES BOY

Thursday, February 25 @ 7:30 PM

Alamo Lake Creek - 13729 Research Blvd, Austin

 

Winner of the 2009 Comedy Vanguard Audience Award at the Austin Film Festival!

 

Rudolph Murray (writer Byron Lane) hates his life. He has a large purple birthmark on his upper lip and everyday he finds someone staring, pointing, or calling him names-like Herpes Boy. He makes videos for the Internet in which he rants about his quirky life and zany family, including his New Age mother, emotionally distant father, and grumpy grandmother. When his "actress-slash-model-slash-dancer" cousin re-edits his videos to make herself more popular, it attracts a huge new audience and makes Rudolph an unlikely-and unwilling-cyber-celebrity at the worst possible time in his life. Lane has written a very original comedy with a hilarious and memorable performance by himself in the lead role.

 

Also starring Beth Grant (No Country for Old Men), Ahna O’Reilly (Forgetting Sara Marshall) and Octavia Spencer (Drag Me to Hell).  Directed by Nathaniel Atcheson.

 

Herpes Boy on KLBJ:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E_YCyg73Dw  

Herpes Boy on KEYE:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNSxgc6xZ4w  

Official Site: http://www.herpesboy.com/