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A heartbroken pushover get some unexpected assistance from a secret Magic 8 Ball in Dan Hass ' brusk pic , Magic H8 Ball . The off - drum unretentive genius Nathan Mohebbi ( Masters of Sex ) as Adam , a piteous citizenry pleaser who discovers that his hunky swain has been cheating on him when he tests positive for chlamydia . riddle with doubt as to what he should do , Adam impetuously look up a Magic 8 egg in the clinic ’s waiting room and cursorily realise that the plaything has a mind of his own , and is more than happy to stamp him around . But what starts off as a liberating experience for Mark soon accept a turn for the decidedly dark .
Hass ' far-out clowning has already delight a class - long run at several LGBTQ and genre flick pic festival , range from Atlanta Shortfest ( where it won for Best LGBT Short ) to the Cannes Short Film Festival ( where it also win ) , and Reeling : The Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival . The film was made by a largely LGBTQ cast and bunch that includesThe Guild ’s Robin Thorsenas Adam ’s tut - tutting Doctor of the Church , along with Chris Boudreaux ( Steam Room Stories ) as his unfaithful , Chevy Malibu - driving fellow Mark , who learn Adam a hard object lesson in parcel out with the challenge of a breakup and , of course , getting tested frequently .
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With Pride Month in full swing , Hass has go out front and released the intact 13 - minute unretentive online for the creation to revel . The film follows Mark as , spurred on by his Magic 8 Ball , he throws carefulness to the wind and fundamentally turn into a raunchier interlingual rendition of Paul Reubens ' military man - child from Tim Burton’sPee - Wee ’s Big Adventure , as he rides around on a bike that he stole ( sorry , " take over " ) , swallow , sings karaoke , gets in touch with his frizzy side , and shouts verity - isms to the earth ( like how Ariana Grande is overrated ) . you could watch the short below .
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It ’s a pretty entertaining shortsighted boilersuit , as it totter on the border of being a repulsion - clowning without ever fully taking the dive and becoming unnecessarily bleak . Magic H8 Ballis reminiscent of ' XC era Burton in more agency than one ( between its zany tone and sunny suburban exterior ) , but there ’s also an undertide of truth to its off - beat examination of the experience of being a 20 - something homophile man in the modern world .
And speaking of Magic 8 clod : Mattel and Blumhouse recently harbinger their programme to makea repugnance - flavor motion picture about the plaything , with Jeff Wadlow ofKick - Ass 2andTruth or Darefame assist as director . There ’s for certain more to be done with the famed children ’s toy dog from a storytelling perspective , but one wonders if Wadlow ’s movie will manage to balance humour , heart , and a touch modality of spookiness with anywhere near the treat of Hass ' little .
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