One Crazy Summer

In a special pre-summer session of Drafthouse’s midweek weird-out, local filmmaker Andrew Bujalski presents an Eighties oddball object known best perhaps by the talents it begets. There is, of course, John Cusack in the lead role – also playing as director Savage Steve Holland’s muse despite his claim that his first outing with Holland, Better Off Dead, was “the worst thing I have ever seen.” Granted, that’s a paraphrased quote from the director, but despite previous objections, Cusack still returned to him as high school grad Hoops McCann, whose lack of a b-ball scholarship fuels a balls-out summer. Hijinks, as you might imagine, ensue. – James Scott