R.U.U.

This is a very funny and well acted short film about the fictional motivational speaker, Duggie Sparks (Jeremy Harris). The film shows him in action during one of his countless seminars in front of a group of needy, lost people--the type that buy into the motivational speaker phenomenon. Harris is absolutely great in this role as he's able to do "the voice"--that oddly hypnotic and creepy voice. And, every time he talks he's saying meaningless platitudes--many of which are taken from old songs and many of which mean absolutely nothing. Yet, despite this, the crowd eats it up and see him as practically a god among men or latter-day prophet.

Most who see this will enjoy it immensely, though followers of similar motivational speakers will either be angry that this film denigrates their heroes OR are so stupid that they won't realize it's a put on and will go to the book store looking for those Duggie Sparks CDs (my assumption is that the latter is most likely)! The film has a very sharp and insightful wit and you can't help but laugh out loud. The folks who made this film are extremely talented.