Kermit Cole

A parody of an old-fashioned western set in contemporary Manhattan, with nods to "Gunsmoke," John Wayne, and Clint Eastwood. Among its humorous updatings of classic western stereotypes, its final showdown takes place on a desolate landfill, and the town prostitute, named Belle, is a black transvestite.

Comedy Fiction. A million years ago, prehistoric clowns roamed the earth, cast out from the society of the primitive, and humorless, cave-people. They wander a bleak and threatening land until their discovery of comedy unlocks their unique potential. The clowns overcome the hostility of the cave-people by showing them that there is an option to mere survival and fear; there is silliness.

Comedy Fiction. A million years ago, prehistoric clowns roamed the earth, cast out from the society of the primitive, and humorless, cave-people. They wander a bleak and threatening land until their discovery of comedy unlocks their unique potential. The clowns overcome the hostility of the cave-people by showing them that there is an option to mere survival and fear; there is silliness.

Comedy Fiction. A million years ago, prehistoric clowns roamed the earth, cast out from the society of the primitive, and humorless, cave-people. They wander a bleak and threatening land until their discovery of comedy unlocks their unique potential. The clowns overcome the hostility of the cave-people by showing them that there is an option to mere survival and fear; there is silliness.

Touching documentary which interviews over 30 HIV-positive New Yorkers. Director Kermit Cole turns the statistics into real-life faces and stories as a range of people--black and white, male and female, gay and straight, young and old--share their experiences of living with an illness that is still stigmatized by public ignorance and fear.