Laughing Boy
2000, NR, 83 min.
Directed by Brazil Joseph Grisaffi, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Brazil Joseph Grisaffi, Anne Quackenbush, Therese Kotara, Michael Gray, Bob Gebert, Bryan Lee Mcglothin, Robin Craig, Tiffany Grant.

This comedy, which also stars the director, is adapted from a play by George Douglas Lee. The Houston-made film also includes several short animated sequences by Stone Soup. The feature will be preceded by Grisaffi’s nine-minute short “Death and a Salesman.” For more info see www.grisaffi.com/laughingboy.html.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.