 The story 
Mommy's worried about Sonny's obnoxious new attitude, but Daddy reassures her it's nothing to worry about.
The next night at her birthday party, Sonny arrives with his four friends — the Lad-About-Town, the Connoisseur, the Stud and the Pseudo-Intellectual — who condescend to mingle with his parents' eclectic crowd. Seeing them in action, Mommy realizes they're spreading Young Man's Disease and Sonny's caught it. What's a mother to do? What any self-respecting mother would. She ties them up in the basement (shot in a real bondage dungeon) to isolate them "just for a little while." When Daddy discovers what she's done, she convinces him of the necessity of her actions. He reveals a tale of his own misspent youth, but the next morning the lads haven't learned a thing. Mommy must continue the struggle to save their souls. After a day of attempted "re-education" she loses her patience and attempts to drive them over a cliff. Daddy returns to find Sonny tied up in the basement. They catch up to Mommy and convince her Sonny's been cured and to let the rest of the lads go. She has also learned her lesson — to live and let live. Previous screenings • Moviate Film Festival, Pittsburgh, March 1999 
• Seattle Underground Film Festival, October 1999 (1st Annual)• Transmediale 2000 Multimedia Festival, Berlin, February 2000 • Burning Man, September 2000 • New Filmmakers, New York, January 2001 • Huntington Beach Film Festival, August 2003 • Imperial Beach Film Festival, August 2004 Also with "Family Drama": program of shorts curated by Laurie @ Roxie Movie Theater, SF, June, 2000 and San Diego City Heights Public Library, Nov. 2000 
Eclectic soundtrack
Latin: • Jaime Valle & Equinox • Bata Ketu, (Michael Spiro & Mark Lamson w/ Bobi Cespedes & Jorge Alabe) — purchase on CD Baby. • Hector Rivera & Orquesta la Conciencia Funky jazz: • Karl Denson (Greyboy Allstars) Girl punk: • Sharkbait Modern rock: • Ten Bright Spikes Featured locations • The home of UK Subs guitarist and punk rock record label owner Nicky Garratt • Differences, a bondage and discipline dungeon 
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