SUFF - The Pez Outlaw
Corporate espionage thriller. Globe-trotting heist caper. Sweet rom-com. True-crime documentary. The Pez Outlaw is all these things and more.
This incredible fish-out-of-water story follows the adventures of Steve Glew, a small-town Michigan man, who boards a plane for Eastern Europe soon after the fall of the Berlin Wall. His mission is to locate a secret factory that holds the key to the most desired and valuable Pez dispensers. If he succeeds, he will pull his family out of debt and finally quit his job. Steve becomes the hero of his own adventure, smuggling the rarest of goods into the U.S. and making millions in the process. It was all magical, until his arch-nemesis, The Pezident (CEO of Pez USA) decided to destroy him. Glew emerges as a fascinating subject for this documentary executive produced by Chris Smith (Tiger King, The Yes Men). A man desperately searching for meaning, joy and dignity – all of which he found upon becoming the self-anointed “Pez Outlaw”. Ingeniously, directors Amy Bandlien Storkel and Bryan Storkel have Glew play himself in re-enactments, letting him tell his story as he sees it: a neo-noir spy drama and action-packed heist fantasy that would do his favourite author, Tom Clancy, proud. His loving wife and children, as well as friends, colleagues and equally eccentric rivals, provide further Wonka-adjacent whimsy to this tale, making it a truly tasty filmic treat.
Release Date:
10/09/2022
Running Time:
87 mins
Director
Amy Bandlien Storkel, Bryan Storkel
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