Why can't I find this movie anywhere?

I'm curious: where do you live?

I'm in a suburb on the "North Shore" of Boston, too far out of downtown to take advantage of the vaunted Boston/Cambridge movie scene. Nevertheless, over the years, I've built up a stable (five in a 15 mile radius now) of non-chain -in fact fiercely independent- theaters that shedule things like Celeste & Jesse Forever (and in fact much more obscure things too: did you see the one about the Norwegian Troll?) all the time. One sign of their otherness is that all five pop _their_own_popcorn_ on site in real time; no trucks, no giant bags.

It's of course been a little tricky to find these theaters, as their business practices don't leave any room at all for an advertising budget, and as their last-minute scheduling changes mean the listings are wrong or absent oftener than I'd wish. Looking through the big city newspaper, you'd never know they even existed. But investigating off the beaten track turned up a couple, and talking to other patrons there (and even looking at the printed literature there) turned up the rest. They all turn out to have websites -with accurate schedules- too. But of course those websites are so obscure I could never find them until _after_ I'd identified the theater; mentioning "Search Engine Optimization" to them just elicits blank stares.

One thing I've learned is that with shifting scheduling and little promotion, they don't show many previews (and those they do show are short), which means I have to be on time. Arriving 15 minutes after the printed starting time -which works just fine these days in the local chain multiplex- would mean not only finding a seat in total darkness but also missing the whole first part of the movie. I've also learned that quite a few things don't turn out as hoped for them, and you can see their dirty underwear fairly often: specifically, quite often I see a poster or a trailer for a movie that in the end does _not_ play at that theater. So I have to pay attention and roll with the punches.

Interestingly, the IMDb "shedule" function usually _does_ have reasonably good information about these places, so IMDb's "near this zipcode" searches usually turn them up. I've never figured out a way to get good _future_ information though (probably because they don't know themselves), so my strategy must involve keeping up with several of these places, rather than just one of them.

screener leaked today.

you can stream it at icefilms.info

Its on Redbox, I rented it today. Good flick