Billy's Dad Is a Fudge-Packer!

10 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglish

Billy's Dad is a Fudge-Packer! is a 2004 American black-and-white short comedy film written and directed by Jamie Donahue^[1] in her first non-acting effort. It is a parody of the 1950s social guidance films, and depicts the life of a boy learning about adulthood in a traditional family. The apparently innocent account of family life in the 1950s is loaded with sexual innuendo. It was made by production company POWER UP.

Plot

Billy is a boy who has to decide what he will do with his life. He can't decide between a cowboy or a policeman. His father also suggests an Indian and construction worker. All four of these are characters in the Village People. His father works at the candy factory as a "fudge packer" (which is modern slang for a man who performs homosexual anal sex) and "has several men under him". His mother is visited by a short, mannish woman who knows how to please the local housewives. His sister is preparing to be a good wife, and in almost every shot is moving a phallic object to her mouth.

Cast

• Spencer Daniels as Billy
• Robert Gant as Billy's dad
• Cady Huffman as Billy's mom
• Alex Borstein as Betty Henderson
• Gina Rodgers as Billy's sister
• D. C. Douglas as 50's announcer

Film festivals

Film festivals in which Billy's Dad Is a Fudge-Packer! appeared include:

2005

• Sundance Film Festival
• Tribeca Film Festival
• PlanetOut Film Festival COMEDY FINALIST
• Austin Gay & Lesbian International Film Festival
• Boston Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
• Brisbane Queer Film Festival
• Cineffable – Paris Lesbian Film Festival
• Cinequest
• Closet Cinema - Southwest Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
• Comedia - Just for Laughs
• Connecticut Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
• Fairy Tales International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
• FilmOut San Diego Film Festival
• Frameline
• Fresno Reel Pride Film Festival
• Image + Nation – Montreal Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
• Inside Out - Toronto Lesbian & Gay Film and Video Festival
• London Lesbian Film Festival
• Martha's Vineyard Independent Film Festival
• Melbourne Queer Film Festival
• Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
• Nashville Film Festival
• Newport Beach Film Festival
• North Carolina Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
• OUT Loud Long Beach Art & Film Festival
• Oslo Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
• Outfest
• Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films
• Philadelphia Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
• PlanetOut Film festival
• Q Cinema-Fort Worth Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
• Queer Screen-Mardi Gras Film Festival, Darlinghurst, Australia
• Queersicht – Bern, Switzerland Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
• Reel Affirmations – Washington DC GLBT Film Festival
• Reel Queer Syracuse
• Rhode Island International Film Festival
• Sacramento International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
• Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film festival

Reception

Apocalypse Later Film Reviews said, It's hard for a film to live up to a title like this, but Billy's Dad is a Fudge-Packer! manages it with aplomb."^[2]

References

External links

• Billy's Dad Is a Fudge-Packer! at IMDb