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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 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. Rated: 3.5/5.0 Oct 14, 2011 Full Review J. R. Jones Chicago Reader 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. Oct 13, 2011 Full Review Chris Chang Film Comment Magazine It's a fascinating, occasionally nauseating tale of wasted human life, energy, and brain cells. Oct 9, 2011 Full Review Pat Padua DCist An intriguing study of how information spreads, and a sober meditation on human relationships. Aug 30, 2018 Full Review Chris Foran Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Bate sort of lets everyone off the hook under the art-for-art's-sake clause. But at least he raises the still-relevant question of whether just because you can tape your neighbor makes it art - or makes it right. Rated: 2.5/4 Sep 29, 2011 Full Review Rob Thomas Capital Times (Madison, WI) As much fun as "Shut Up, Little Man" is at times, you can't shake the feeling that watching the documentary is the next link in a long chain of exploitation that leads back 20 years. Rated: 2.5/4 Sep 23, 2011 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member 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. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/13/23 Full Review Audience Member 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. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/20/23 Full Review Audience Member 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. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/12/23 Full Review Audience Member 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. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/18/23 Full Review Audience Member I would have liked to see more about the struggle to make the 3 different movies, that could be a whole doc in itself. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/28/23 Full Review Audience Member 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. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review 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
Adelaide Film Festival, Filmlab , 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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