God Bless America is a 2011 dark comedy film that combines elements of political satire with black humor. The film was written and directed by Bobcat Goldthwait, and stars Joel Murray and Tara Lynne Barr.
God Bless America had its world premiere on September 9, 2011, at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival, and was released On Demand on April 6, 2012 and in theaters on May 11, 2012.[2] The DVD for the film was released on the 9th July 2012 with an initial rating of 4.5/5 on Amazon and 4/5 on Play.
Plot of God Bless America (2011)
Frank Murdoch (Joel Murray) is an insurance salesman living in Syracuse, New York, who is sick of how America has fallen to a state of rudeness based on pop culture, talk radio, and internet influences. After a boring evening of watching television, including the reality show series, Tuff Gurlz, where a foul-mouthed woman (Guerrin Gardner) throws a used tampon at another for defecating in her food, and an episode of American Superstarz where a singer named Steven Clark (Aris Alvarado) is cruelly humiliated by the judges for his horrible singing voice, Frank contemplates killing his rude and inconsiderate neighbors, whose screaming baby mixed in with his own insomnia and chronic migraine headaches give him a lack of peace in his own home. His ex-wife, Alison (Melinda Page Hamilton) has custody of their daughter, Ava (Mackenzie Brooke Smith), who has become a spoiled brat whose mother caters to her every whim. Making matters worse, he has just been fired from his job at an insurance company, after a failed attempt at being nice results in a sexual harassment complaint and violation of company privacy for looking up her address in the records. He is then informed by his uninterested doctor he has a terminal brain tumor that is nearly inoperable, but the doctor's seeming lack of concern only drives Frank further into depression.
Frank tries to commit suicide with a pistol he owns, but stops when he watches a reality show starring Chloe (Maddie Hasson), a spoiled teenager, who launches into a profanity-laced tirade when her parents mistakenly buy her a Lexus sedan instead of a Cadillac Escalade for her birthday, and has an epiphany. The next day he steals his neighbor's Camaro, drives to Chloe's school in Virginia and handcuffs her to her own steering wheel at gunpoint. After a failed attempt to ignite her gas tank, he kills her by shooting her at point blank range. One of Chloe's classmates, Roxanne "Roxy" Harmon (Tara Lynne Barr), witnesses this and comes to the same realization as Frank that people have become stupid and need to die. Roxy follows Frank back to his motel where he is once again preparing to commit suicide, however she prevents this by convincing Frank that the media would inevitably paint him as a homicidal stalker who only killed Chloe because of an unrequited sexual obsession. Frank explains to Roxy that he only wants bad people to die, people who have committed blatant acts of cruelty and stupidity against their fellow man. To alleviate Frank's thoughts of suicide, Roxy suggests they kill Chloe's parents and he agrees. Frank shoots Chloe's father (Larry Miller) and after a brief chase, Roxy stabs her mother (Dorie Barton) with a kitchen knife. Roxy convinces Frank to take her along to keep her away from her drug addict mother and abusive rapist step-father. They then decide to go on the lam to continue their killing spree. After buying new clothes at a thrift store, they visit a movie theater to watch a documentary about the 1968 My Lai Massacre. During the movie, several rude teenagers enter the mostly empty theater and begin talking loudly and using their cell phones. Frank and Roxy shoot and kill all but one of them, as well as another patron (Toby Huss) who refrains himself from picking up somebody with the reason that he's working and tries to film the shooting with his cellphone. Afterwards they kill several others, including a man who double-parks his car, zealous religious protestors who step on the rights of homosexuals and other religious and personal freedoms that America should stand for, and Michael Fuller (Regan Burns), a popular but abrasive neo-conservative political television commentator.
Cast of God Bless America (2011)
Joel Murray as Frank Murdoch
Tara Lynne Barr as Roxanne "Roxy" Harmon
Mackenzie Brooke Smith as Ava
Melinda Page Hamilton as Alison
Rich McDonald as Brad
Regan Burns as Michael Fuller
Aris Alvarado as Steven Clark
Maddie Hasson as Chloe
Geoff Pierson as Frank's Boss
Larry Miller as Chloe's Dad
Dorie Barton as Chloe's Mom
David Mendenhall as Roxy's Dad
Andrea Harper as Roxy's Mom
Mike Tristano as Mike the Arms Dealer
Toby Huss as Theater Patron with Cell Phone
Mo Gaffney as Lounge Singer
Christopher Allen Nelson as State Trooper
Guerrin Gardner as Tampon Throwing Tuff Gurl
Storyline
Loveless, jobless, possibly terminally ill, Frank has had enough of the downward spiral of America. With nothing left to lose, Frank takes his gun and offs the stupidest, cruelest, and most repellent members of society. He finds an unusual accomplice: 16-year-old Roxy, who shares his sense of rage and disenfranchisement.
God Bless America had its world premiere on September 9, 2011, at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival, and was released On Demand on April 6, 2012 and in theaters on May 11, 2012.[2] The DVD for the film was released on the 9th July 2012 with an initial rating of 4.5/5 on Amazon and 4/5 on Play.
Plot of God Bless America (2011)
Frank Murdoch (Joel Murray) is an insurance salesman living in Syracuse, New York, who is sick of how America has fallen to a state of rudeness based on pop culture, talk radio, and internet influences. After a boring evening of watching television, including the reality show series, Tuff Gurlz, where a foul-mouthed woman (Guerrin Gardner) throws a used tampon at another for defecating in her food, and an episode of American Superstarz where a singer named Steven Clark (Aris Alvarado) is cruelly humiliated by the judges for his horrible singing voice, Frank contemplates killing his rude and inconsiderate neighbors, whose screaming baby mixed in with his own insomnia and chronic migraine headaches give him a lack of peace in his own home. His ex-wife, Alison (Melinda Page Hamilton) has custody of their daughter, Ava (Mackenzie Brooke Smith), who has become a spoiled brat whose mother caters to her every whim. Making matters worse, he has just been fired from his job at an insurance company, after a failed attempt at being nice results in a sexual harassment complaint and violation of company privacy for looking up her address in the records. He is then informed by his uninterested doctor he has a terminal brain tumor that is nearly inoperable, but the doctor's seeming lack of concern only drives Frank further into depression.
Frank tries to commit suicide with a pistol he owns, but stops when he watches a reality show starring Chloe (Maddie Hasson), a spoiled teenager, who launches into a profanity-laced tirade when her parents mistakenly buy her a Lexus sedan instead of a Cadillac Escalade for her birthday, and has an epiphany. The next day he steals his neighbor's Camaro, drives to Chloe's school in Virginia and handcuffs her to her own steering wheel at gunpoint. After a failed attempt to ignite her gas tank, he kills her by shooting her at point blank range. One of Chloe's classmates, Roxanne "Roxy" Harmon (Tara Lynne Barr), witnesses this and comes to the same realization as Frank that people have become stupid and need to die. Roxy follows Frank back to his motel where he is once again preparing to commit suicide, however she prevents this by convincing Frank that the media would inevitably paint him as a homicidal stalker who only killed Chloe because of an unrequited sexual obsession. Frank explains to Roxy that he only wants bad people to die, people who have committed blatant acts of cruelty and stupidity against their fellow man. To alleviate Frank's thoughts of suicide, Roxy suggests they kill Chloe's parents and he agrees. Frank shoots Chloe's father (Larry Miller) and after a brief chase, Roxy stabs her mother (Dorie Barton) with a kitchen knife. Roxy convinces Frank to take her along to keep her away from her drug addict mother and abusive rapist step-father. They then decide to go on the lam to continue their killing spree. After buying new clothes at a thrift store, they visit a movie theater to watch a documentary about the 1968 My Lai Massacre. During the movie, several rude teenagers enter the mostly empty theater and begin talking loudly and using their cell phones. Frank and Roxy shoot and kill all but one of them, as well as another patron (Toby Huss) who refrains himself from picking up somebody with the reason that he's working and tries to film the shooting with his cellphone. Afterwards they kill several others, including a man who double-parks his car, zealous religious protestors who step on the rights of homosexuals and other religious and personal freedoms that America should stand for, and Michael Fuller (Regan Burns), a popular but abrasive neo-conservative political television commentator.
Cast of God Bless America (2011)
Joel Murray as Frank Murdoch
Tara Lynne Barr as Roxanne "Roxy" Harmon
Mackenzie Brooke Smith as Ava
Melinda Page Hamilton as Alison
Rich McDonald as Brad
Regan Burns as Michael Fuller
Aris Alvarado as Steven Clark
Maddie Hasson as Chloe
Geoff Pierson as Frank's Boss
Larry Miller as Chloe's Dad
Dorie Barton as Chloe's Mom
David Mendenhall as Roxy's Dad
Andrea Harper as Roxy's Mom
Mike Tristano as Mike the Arms Dealer
Toby Huss as Theater Patron with Cell Phone
Mo Gaffney as Lounge Singer
Christopher Allen Nelson as State Trooper
Guerrin Gardner as Tampon Throwing Tuff Gurl
Storyline
Loveless, jobless, possibly terminally ill, Frank has had enough of the downward spiral of America. With nothing left to lose, Frank takes his gun and offs the stupidest, cruelest, and most repellent members of society. He finds an unusual accomplice: 16-year-old Roxy, who shares his sense of rage and disenfranchisement.
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