The Night Listener

Lonely Truckers, Lot Lizards and What Alice Found

• Jan 9, 2007 11:12 PM ET
• by Maitland McDonagh
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Send your movie questions to FlickChickThis weeks spotlighted DVD Tuesday pick is What Alice Found with some virtual-discussion starters to get the conversation going Heres what got me thinking about What Alice Found 2003 The release of The Night Listener 2006 based on Armistead Maupins novelization of his real-life experience of being duped into an intense phone friendship with a dying teenager whose upcoming memoir of vicious abuse turns out to be an elaborate fraud recalled the unmasking of the JT LeRoy hoax The recent film of LeRoys autobiographical novel about his abusive childhood at the hands of his mom the lot lizard a truck-stop hooker starring and directed by Asia Argento in turn jogged my memory of this super low-budget indie And the more I thought about it the more I thought I should do my bit to let people know its out there Writer-director A Dean Bells shot-on-DV feature begins in Milford New Hampshire where recent high-school graduat read more