DEATH AND PANCAKES
Guy (Russell Alan Rowe) is a 32-year-old gay songwriter who discovers one night that his telephone is a time machine. Drowsy and relaxed after a phone-sex session, he idly dials his family’s old number–and makes contact with himself 20 years ago (young Guy is played with deep feeling and a beautiful tenor by Keith Anderson). The experiment leads to grim flashbacks from Guy’s childhood: the sudden death of his father (played by Barnes, who’s also the offstage keyboardist, under the stage name Eddie Briscoe); a series of classroom embarrassments (Guy’s talent for writing stories brings him more trouble than acclaim); a war-zone relationship with his widowed mother (Kim Docter), who in a string of careless insults takes out her loneliness and frustration on her kid; and an even worse situation with his 15-year-old brother Brad, who likes to call his kid brother a cocksucker–and likes to prove it by coaxing/forcing Guy into oral sex in the basement.
