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Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure

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Friends accidentally create the world's first viral video when they record fighting neighbors.
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Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure

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Brian Tallerico HollywoodChicago.com Oct 14, 2011
3.5/5.0
What starts as a clever comedy piece about the popularity of the actual recordings becomes something more poignant when director Matthew Bate starts asking questions about privacy and unwanted celebrity. Go to Full Review
J. R. Jones Chicago Reader Oct 13, 2011
The unsuspecting stars (who died in 1992 and '96, respectively) begin to seem less like nightmare neighbors and more like the victims of rampant exploitation and voyeurism. Go to Full Review
Chris Chang Film Comment Magazine Oct 9, 2011
It's a fascinating, occasionally nauseating tale of wasted human life, energy, and brain cells. Go to Full Review
Pat Padua DCist Aug 30, 2018
An intriguing study of how information spreads, and a sober meditation on human relationships. Go to Full Review
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Aug 19, 2016 An hilarious glimpse inside the wacky world of two misfit friends, an '"Odd Couple" of the morbid kind. Drunk, delusional, demented, this Oscar and Felix-type duo will have you in stitches while shaking your head wondering "why are these two roommates?" It's a must see if you like sick humor and human nature. See more Dec 23, 2014 Weaves along the uncomfortable line between fascinating, and mean spiritedness. Insightful in the end, but leaves you more uneasy than inspired by any claimed artistic merit. See more Sep 15, 2014 Interesting story but you really feel bad for the neighbours being made a joke and a cash cow for two jerks who recorded them without their permission. But they, it's for art..... yeah right. See more Mar 22, 2014 A great story of 1980s recordings of drunken quarrelings between San Francisco neighbors, and the phenomenon resulting from tape traders in the 1990s, and the hunt to find the original quarrelers in the 2000s. See more Feb 23, 2014 I would have liked to see more about the struggle to make the 3 different movies, that could be a whole doc in itself. See more Feb 21, 2014 Mildly amusing documentary that raises a number of interesting topics (including voyeurism, privacy, and art vs. profitability issues), but does little or nothing with them. Worst of all, it never demonstrates why these recordings were so funny/popular in the first place. They come off as a "you had to be there" moments. See more Read all reviews
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Synopsis Friends accidentally create the world's first viral video when they record fighting neighbors.
Director
Matthew Bate
Producer
Matthew Bate, Sophie Hyde
Screenwriter
Matthew Bate
Production Co
Filmlab , Adelaide Film Festival, The South Australian Film Corporation, Closer Productions
Genre
Drama, Comedy
Original Language
Australian English
Release Date (Streaming)
Jan 24, 2012
Box Office (Gross USA)
$19.7K
Runtime
1h 25m
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