WUSS

WUSS (2011) / Producer

SYNOPSIS
“WUSS” a.k.a. “PATHETIC LITTLE WUSS” or
“NOBODY LIKES YOU, YOU MIGHT AS WELL DIE”

WUSS is the story of a high school teacher who faces constant ridicule after he’s repeatedly beaten up by several of his own students. Having nowhere else to turn, he eventually teams up with another of his students to fight back. This student, a young girl, is feared school-wide because of a dark family reputation. She also has an unfortunate nickname grafted to her due to her predilection for smoking discarded cigarettes. Bonded in battle, the student and teacher form a friendship that stretches the use of the word inappropriate.

Starring Nate Rubin (BLOOD ON THE HIGHWAY, MY MOM SMOKES WEED), featuring Tony Hale (TV’s “Arrested Development”) and directed by Clay Liford (EARTHLING, MY MOM SMOKES WEED). The film is a dark comedy that almost plays as a horror film, albeit one where nobody dies (except a little on the inside). Says Liford, “In most comedies, when characters do harebrained schemes they’re never held accountable for them. I hold them accountable.”

CAST
Starring Nate Rubin, Alicia Anthony & Ryan Anderson; featuring Jenny Sipes, Sylvia Luedtke and Jonny Mars; with Alex Karpovsky, Cody Jones, and Tony Hale

LINKS
www.WussMovie.com
@WussMovie
Fan up on Facebook!

WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY
Clay Liford

UPCOMING SCREENINGS
2011 SXSW Film Festival
World Premiere:

Saturday, March 12 at 4:30 p.m. (Rollins Theatre)

Additional screenings:
Sunday, March 13 at 9:15 p.m. (Westgate)
Thursday, March 17 at 10:30 p.m. (Alamo South Lamar)
Saturday, March 19 at 11:30 a.m. (State Theatre)

PRESS
Gordon and the Whale | First poster and trailer for Clay Liford’s WUSS
Slackerwood | Austin at SXSW 2011: Clay Liford’s ‘Wuss’
Gordon and the Whale | SXSW 2011: First look at Clay Liford’s WUSS
Film Threat | WUSS – A Certified Film Threat in Progress
Pegasus News | On the scene for filming of WUSS in Garland
Dallas Observer | You Too Can Be in a Movie With Buster Bluth Hisself, Tony Hale. Not a Scene, Just a Movie.
Dallas Observer | Earthling’s Clay Liford Goes to High School

OFFICIAL SELECTIONS & SPECIAL SCREENINGS
2011 SXSW Film Festival (World Premiere, March 2011)