It sounds smutty, but it's just a good, clean promotional stunt: A "Hands on a Hard Body" contest involves a shiny new pick-up truck and people willing to stand with one hand on it until only one is left. Think of it as the marathon dance competition of
our day. S.R. Bindler's documentary about one such contest in Longview, TX, doesn't have much going for it on the technical front, but it's a window onto solid human drama of a particularly unvarnished kind. The putative villain of the piece is Benny, a homespun spartan with a ratty little
mustache ("If you can't hunt with the big dogs, you got to get up on the porch with the pups") who won a truck two years earlier...
Released:
1997
Rated:
PG
Length:
97 mins