JEFFTOWNE

  • Color
  • 1998
  • 59 min
  • Dolby Digital Sound

Directed by Daniel Kraus
Starring Jeff Towne, Genevieve Lutgen, Kim Davis, Kristi Fitzpatrick, Mark Murray with special appearences by William Shatner & Hulk Hogan

Meet Jeff.  He’s a beer-drinking, porno-consuming, wrestling fanatic with Down’s syndrome. He lies, he cheats, he steals and he fondles women. In short, he a lot more like the rest of us than we care to admit.  Jeff’s days are divided between his filthy home that he shares with his 98 year old, wheel-chair bound, foster mother (who pins their financial future on the certainty that they’ll win the Publisher’s Clearance House Sweepstakes) and a mall movie theater where the employees alternately mock and care for him.  They become a bizarre surrogate family for Jeff, providing him all the vices that his mother so desperately ignores – to her, Jeff is a good Christian boy with a heart of Gold.  As this shocking and hilarious documentary shows, Jeff frequents strip joints, bum-rushes celebrities, cares for his horrifyingly diseased foot and gets his few remaining teeth extracted.  One thing’s for sure: you’ve never seen anything like “Jefftowne”.  And you’ve never met anyone like Jeff.