HIGH STRUNG SYNOPSIS

DON'T GET MAD... GET REALLY PISSED OFF! Words to live by for the Howard Beale of WAYNE'S WORLD. Thane Furrows (comic/ writer Steve Oedekerk). Little things really get to Thane: like the milk left in the cereal bowl when the cereal is gone; like the book that falls behind the couch, just millimeters out of reach; like that certain fly that can't be killed and won't go away. Thane does not discriminate. He hates major annoyances, too - insurance salesmen, game shows, waitresses, telemarketers, neighbors, the boss' wife, his mother. Ferrets seem to be all that Thane doesn't deplore. ("They have a cool attitude!")

Thane Furrows writes children's books. His latest, BYE BYE GRANDMA, a pop-up book about "a child's need to comprehend death," has convinced his boss' wife (Denise Crosby = STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION) that Thane must go. His best friend (Thomas Wilson - BACK TO THE FUTURE) tries to console Thane, but encounters with a door-to-door insurance salesman (FRED WILLARD - FERNWOOD TONIGHT), his heavy metal-loving neighbor (Jani Lane - WARRANT), and a seemingly never-ending succession of those aforementioned, little things, intensify Thane's Andy-Rooney-on-speed behavior. Then there are these mysterious messages regarding "eight o'clock" and the rubber-faced stranger (Mystery Guest) who appears to be sending them...

Director Roger Nygard employs a unique visual style to create a sense of urgency and heightened tension while the irreverent cast packs the film with smirks, chuckles and outright belly laughs. HIGH STRUNG has been called "the comic equivalent of Jimi Hendrix' rendition of the National Anthem: blazing riffs on the ordinary that shoot off into the outrageous."

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