Good Grief

$13.50

Andrew Dickson is the most daring filmmaker to come out of Portland, OR since Gus Van Sant left town. His first feature film Good Grief is part afterschool-special, part John Waters romp, with a killer soundtrack of hot music like the Fucking Champs, Trail of Dead and Selby Tigers. It's a biting and strangely poignant satire of the alienated world which uptight suburban parents the world over pray that their teens are not involved in. Sex, drugs, new wave music, trenchcoats, unorthodox hairdos-- and worst of all, fantasy-role playing games. If you've ever been picked on, if you ever didn't get the girl, if twenty-sided dice and imaginary elf assassins ever seemed like better friends than your actual friends- Good Grief is the film for you.

Following a 40-show US tour of festivals, theaters, rock clubs, and punk houses, Good Grief has become the most talked about indie film in the rock scene. Andrew Dickson put projector under arm, loaded up his mini-van, and personally screened the film as part of the 2-month DIY film/zine tour with Good Grief star Al Burian (Milemarker, Hellbender) reading from his immensely popular zine Burn Collector. The Good Grief tape also includes Dickson's short film 2-ply Comply, a satire of the criminals-on-the-lam genre about a couple who rob victims in highway rest area toilet stalls with a talking gun. "A Brilliant Coming of Age Dramedy" "This film is not to be missed" - Punk Planet, April 2001 - MRR, July 2001 "One of the most engaging and angry films I’ve seen in a long while." -Allen Richards, B-Independent.com "Of all the underground films that have graced the desk of this columnist in the last year, GOOD GRIEF is without a doubt the best written, most well directed of the lot." - Maximum Rockandroll #216

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