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What if Clint Eastwood and Mel Brooks became cartoonists and united to create the wackiest, most surreal musical western ever? That's Slide. It's the story of a corrupt logging village, Sourdough Creek, ruled by two evil twin brothers, Zeke and Jeb, who enjoy nothing more than killing and greed. One day a mysterious cowboy arrives in town, carrying nothing but his slide guitar. With his music, Slide battles the forces of the deadly twins. He befriends Delilah, who works as a hooker at the Lucky Buck Bar, which is owned and run by the corrupt, plump twins. Delilah falls in love with Slide and reveals how she wants to be a singer in the Lucky Buck Band, but is too shy. Then, Slide is joined in his battle with the twin forces of evil by a local Bigfoot-like character called "Hellbug." This whole menagerie is then complicated by the arrival of a Hollywood studio coming to shoot their new feature film there. The final Armageddon battle is interrupted by the failure of the Sourdough Creek Dam, which results in a happy ending... or does it? Although it is not a political film, Slide does address some important issues: environmentalism and gun control. This film should easily qualify or the Guinness Book of World Records for having the most evil killers of any major motion picture.
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Avi Offer NYC Movie Guru Zany, grotesque and outrageously funny. Nov 24, 2025 Full Review Alan French Sunshine State Cineplex While the story at its heart is a little thin, the visual sense of Slide lifts the Western and musical to new heights. Afterward, it’s impossible to get Plympton’s one-of-a-kind images out of your mind. Rated: 7/10 Apr 17, 2024 Full Review Dennis Harvey 48 Hills There’s plenty of music, scatological humor, imaginative sight gags, and more—including, this time, enough plot to sustain Plympton’s idiosyncratic sensibility for 80 minutes. Feb 14, 2024 Full Review Noel Oakshot In Review Online Slide [feels] bizarrely inorganic and detached from the culture at large. Even the parodic register struck... feels like an awkward holdover from the past. Feb 2, 2024 Full Review Michael Talbot-Haynes Film Threat It is an acid flashback wearing spurs. If you go out of your way for that old-school cool adult animation, slide right on over to Slide. It is another example of why Bill Plympton will always be one of the greatest animators of all time. Rated: 9/10 Jan 30, 2024 Full Review Read all reviews
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Bill Plympton

Director

Jim Lujan

Jeb Carver

Maureen McElheron

Delilah

Sasha K. Gordon

Veronica Saltwater

Ana Sophia Colón

Rosalita

Claire Fonger

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Synopsis What if Clint Eastwood and Mel Brooks became cartoonists and united to create the wackiest, most surreal musical western ever? That's Slide. It's the story of a corrupt logging village, Sourdough Creek, ruled by two evil twin brothers, Zeke and Jeb, who enjoy nothing more than killing and greed. One day a mysterious cowboy arrives in town, carrying nothing but his slide guitar. With his music, Slide battles the forces of the deadly twins. He befriends Delilah, who works as a hooker at the Lucky Buck Bar, which is owned and run by the corrupt, plump twins. Delilah falls in love with Slide and reveals how she wants to be a singer in the Lucky Buck Band, but is too shy. Then, Slide is joined in his battle with the twin forces of evil by a local Bigfoot-like character called "Hellbug." This whole menagerie is then complicated by the arrival of a Hollywood studio coming to shoot their new feature film there. The final Armageddon battle is interrupted by the failure of the Sourdough Creek Dam, which results in a happy ending... or does it? Although it is not a political film, Slide does address some important issues: environmentalism and gun control. This film should easily qualify or the Guinness Book of World Records for having the most evil killers of any major motion picture.
Director
Bill Plympton
Producer
Bill Plympton, Manuel Attali, Owen Andrejco, Sean Davis, Rachel Braga Jones, Natasha Villegas-Cordera, Wendy Cong Zhao
Screenwriter
Bill Plympton, Jim Lujan
Distributor
Plymptoons Studio
Production Co
Space Pilot Media, Dark Horse Indie, Plymptoons Studio, ED Distribution, International Originals
Genre
Comedy, Drama, Animation
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Nov 28, 2025, Limited
Runtime
1h 19m