Darla In Space
Darla Peterson lives with her mother and runs her business, Kitty Kasket, out of the garage. She works hard and keeps her nose clean, so how did she end up with a $349,000.22 tax debt?
Leona Peterson's nose is less clean. She suggests they hunt carburetors in the neighborhood and sell off the valuable platinum found within. With this plan, they'd have the debt paid off in two weeks.
Darla is frustrated with her mother's insane notions, but she tries to make the best of her work day cleaning the warehouse overseen by Arnot Pickens.
Arnot Pickens is an absentee boss at best. His work seems to be guarding a shipping container and not answering the telephone which perpetually rings.
Poking around the place, Darla topples upon the discovery of a lifetime, locked tight inside the shipping container: a sentient kombucha scoby, and it can talk! Or at least, Darla can hear this scoby, whose name is Mother, loud and clear.
This is not the topper in the list of Mother's unusual qualities, however. Darla discovers Mother's ability to grant mind-blowing orgasms.
If Darla will help Mother fulfill her dream of going to space, Mother will help Darla with her debt.
As quick as that, Darla puts her plan in motion: All she needs is to find 350 people to orgasm, or "Menage", with Mother at $1,000 a pop and the debt is paid.
Totally straightfoward.
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Susie MoonDirector
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Eric LaplanteDirector
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Alex E HarrisKey Cast"Darla Peterson"The Other Two, The Iliza Shlesinger Sketch Show, Crashing
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Constance ShulmanKey Cast"Leona Peterson"Orange Is The New Black, Fried Green Tomatoes, Sweet and Lowdown
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Thomas Jay RyanKey Cast"Arnot Pickens"Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, Henry Fool, Fay Grim
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Jenn LyonKey Cast"Brittney St. Clair"Justified, Claws, Crashing
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Rasheda CrockettKey Cast"Charity Legitimate"Bigger, Adam Ruins Everything, Slashening: The Final Beginning
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Susie MoonWriter
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Eric LaplanteWriter
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Erik MygrantProducer
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Meghan DohertyProducerSylvio, The Naked Woman, Coming Home
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Project Type:Feature
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Runtime:1 hour 34 minutes
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Completion Date:January 13, 2023
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Production Budget:90,000 USD
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Country of Origin:United States
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Country of Filming:United States
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Language:English
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Shooting Format:digital
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Aspect Ratio:16:9
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:Yes
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Student Project:No
SUSIE MOON was born in seoul, korea and grew up in los angeles. she attended nyu's tisch school of the arts where she received an mfa in screenwriting. she currently resides in houston, texas.
ERIC LAPLANTE is a filmmaker based out of New York City. He has worked on a large number of narrative, documentary, and commercial projects. He DPed "Sylvio", which debuted at SXSW.
As a director he had his most recent short documentary be a Vimeo Staff pick and has had comedy content shared amongst many different online platforms. His commercials have been with many different brands (though lately he has really been cornering the market on mid-sized bank comedy spots).
He has a real passion for pressure cooking (Not with an Instant Pot) and making yogurt (though he readily admits making yogurt in an Instant Pot would be way easier than how he does it now). He lives with his wife and their basset hound named Betty Draper.
This is a first feature for both of us. The experience has been profoundly humbling, exhausting and educational.
This project is an expression of love for a character created by Eric's wife, Alex. Darla Peterson started life as a comedy sketch about a woman peddling her customizable cat caskets. Was she a lonely shut-in? That seemed to short change Darla, somehow. We want to know, why doesn't Darla believe in luck? Why does she believe in pluck? And diligence? And dedication, and persistence? And perseverence. And tenacity. And gumption, and so on.
This is our best attempt to answer that very question.