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Frank & Cindy

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DIR GJ ECHTERNKAMP
DOCUMENTARY VIDEO 73:00 MIN NEW YORK PREMIERE
"My stepfather Frank, by some lucky coincidence, landed himself in a Menudo-like pop group at the age of 18... a band called OXO with the hit song 'Whirly Girl.'

Enter my mother, Cindy, a beautiful blonde bombshell and all-around addict struggling to support her 5 year-old child. She ran into OXO at the local diner in Pasadena and, to make a long story short, gets married to Frank shortly thereafter.

So, deluded Cindy thinks this is her chance to live the good life from now on. Frank is handsome, rich, famous, and naive as hell. But the band breaks up months later and my mom ends up supporting Frank for the next 25 years, as he struggles and fails to get back in to the music business.

So, now Frank is a chubby alcoholic who drinks 4 bottles of White Zinfandel a day and lives in the basement. My mother is still beautiful, but completely trapped in a codependent relationship with an overgrown Peter Pan who's never worked a day in his life. She has big plans to find a new man. She also quit drinking five years ago and realized she has an adult son that wants nothing to do with her.

Until, of course, I decide to make this documentary. I try to be a catalyst and make these people change their lives for the better... but can I? Maybe I'm just exploiting my stepfather for cheap laughs and a little revenge for ruining my life..." GJ Echternkamp