Summer of the Chew Toy Soul (2011)

Running time: 70 minutes.  Written/directed by Tristan Newcomb.  Executive Producer: Simon Quiroz.  Associate Producer: Roberto Rosales.  Additional music: Tsuyoshi Oyama.

Where to get it: Download-To-Own HD / Amazon DVD / Amazon Video-On-Demand

“…a beautiful and heartbreaking film…fully immerses your mind into its intoxicating visual feast.”  -  Justin Oberholtzer, Freakin’ Awesome Network

Alcohol-fueled regret and Nintendo 64 – a marriage made in anti-movie heaven.  This is a film dedicated to any poor lad of the last thirty years who was unlucky enough to be that one miserable kid on the block without a video game console.  Or any Nintendo-loving child who suffered through the divorce of their parents by being tossed back-and-forth between their two separate residences like an old, stinky Nerf football that the dog chewed on…while their Nintendo console kept up its merrily oblivious song of Pikachuvian bliss.

But yet, from the point-of-view of the film’s functional-alcoholic father character, this movie is a riff on Camus’ famous dictum: the only real philosophical problem is whether or not to commit suicide.  Once you’ve decided that particular issue, the rest of life’s answers are, by comparison, simple.  The father just isn’t quite up to making a firm decision on the suicide question.  Perhaps his Nintendo-loving son can assist him in making the wrong suicide choice for the right reasons?  Or is it the other way around?

(to obtain a copy for the purpose of reviewing this title, please contact us: lumalin.films at gmail dot com)

The Soundtrack:  A few folks have asked about some of the songs in the movie and where they can get them, so we’ve put together a kind of mini-soundtrack, encoded in the highest quality retail mp3 format (320 kbps), and bundled into a zip file for easy downloading.  It includes the oft-requested Tsuyoshi Oyama version of “You’re the Best” (also known as the Ratty Mouse version), as well as a bonus track: “Dobo Walks Up a Tree” (the song playing in the trailer).  Now you can take our bewildering puppety headspace anywhere: shopping, commuting, loitering, you name it.  But be warned: a couple of the more manic tracks, like “Dobo Leaves the Meadow”, are specifically engineered to induce states of extreme zealotry and megalomania.

Tracks:

1. “English Lesson (Opening Credits)” – Tsuyoshi Oyama
2. “I Review Games for Wine Molecules” – Tristan Newcomb
3. “You’re the Best (the Nintendobo song)” – Tsuyoshi Oyama
4. “Follow the Wire to Dobo’s Grave” – Tristan Newcomb
5. “Dobo is First to the Guillotine” – Tristan Newcomb
6. “Short Life” – Tsuyoshi Oyama
7. “Dobo Leaves the Meadow” – Tristan Newcomb
8. “Visit Puragtory” – Tristan Newcomb
9. “Dobo Walks Up a Tree” – Tristan Newcomb

Total running time: 40 minutes.   Click here to order.