GOD SAID "HA!"

Julia Sweeney

Miramax Pictures; Directed by Julia Sweeney

Rated PG-13; 85 minutes; 1999

Julia Sweeney is diagnosed with cervical cancer right after her brother is diagnosed with lymph cancer. This is their story. Sweeney, the former androgynous Pat on Saturday Night Live, gives a simple, yet captivating, monologue in this adaptation of her Broadway show.

 

 

 

PROMO IDEA

Schedule this movie during a health fair on your campus; provide cancer treatment literature to moviegoers; promote this movie as a fundraiser with ticket revenue donated to cancer research (on your campus?).

 

 

 

REVIEWS

"It detonates on the screen . . . a jewel! I cannot recommend it highly enough!"

- Andrew Sarris, NEW YORK OBSERVER

"Astonishing . . . outrageously funny."

- Jay Carr, THE BOSTON GLOBE