Alligator
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Director: Lewis Teague
1980 / 91min / DCP
Teague, working from a sharp, clever screenplay by John Sayles, weaves the stuff of urban legend into a stylish and resourceful thriller tracking the ferocious fallout that follows a Missouri family’s decision, fresh from a Florida vacation, to dispose of their new baby pet alligator by way of the toilet. Flash forward 12 years and that baby, lurking in the city’s sewage system and surviving on animal waste from experiments with an illegal growth formula, is all grown up… and absolutely ravenous, leaving the unlucky detective Robert Forster racing to figure out what exactly is happening to the local wastewater treatment operators.
Introduction from producer Heather Buckley on Friday, October 11th
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