By :Billy Gil | Posted: 25 Aug 2009
bgil@questex.com,

monterey media has acquired Humble Pie. No, not the ’70s supergroup, but rather an offbeat comedy along the lines of Napoleon Dynamite (it’s from the same producer), to release theatrically and then on DVD in December.

It has won a bunch of awards at smaller film festivals and was an official selections at AFI, the U.S. Comedy Arts Film Festival and Slamdance. Judging by the trailer, it’s not hard to see why. Hubbel Palmer plays a sarcastic, chubby young man working at a supermarket in a dead-end town, living with a bitchy mom (Kathleen Quinlan) and his sister (Mary Lynn Rajskub, who was in Julie & Julia, but I’ll always love her from her hilarious role as a mom jealous of her own baby in a “Mr. Show” skit). It’s rare that a trailer will make you laugh as hard as this one does, with awkwardness aplenty. The movie also stars William Baldwin in the sort of self-parodying role the Baldwins seem to be doing lately (including Stephen).

Watch the trailer at the movie’s official site:

http://www.americanforkmovie.com/trailer.html

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