Shut Up Little Man: The Audio Misadventure
Directed by Matthew Bate
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Viral videos and Youtube stars lose their glamour when compared to the Peter and Raymond audiotapes, a 90’s pop-culture phenomenon that was perhaps the first media of its kind to establish a cult following before the creation of the Internet.
An official selection at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, “Shut Up Little Man: The Audio Misadventure” is a documentary that examines the lasting legacy of two elderly drunkards named Peter and Raymond.
In 1987, two college graduates, Eddie Lee Sausage and Mitchell D., move into a bright pink San Francisco apartment comically referred to as the “Pepto Bismol Palace.” From the neighboring flat, Eddie Lee and Mitchell frequently overhear two elderly men verbally and physically abusing one another in a drunken stupor.
