Idaho International Film Festival
 

PIRATES OF THE
GREAT SALT LAKE

E.R. Nelson
2006, USA, Narrative, 86 minutes
www.piratesofthegreatsaltlake.com

“Totally off-the-wall.”
– San Francisco Chronicle


“These wannabe pirates are very much in Napoleon Dynamite mode.”
– Variety

Pirates of the Great Salt Lake  

Pirates of the Great Salt Lake Yarrrr! Director and co-writer E.R. Nelson makes an unforgettable debut with this intelligent, hilarious, tongue-in-cheek, character-driven, action hybrid of Don Quixote and Pirates of the Caribbean. It’s got it all - ghosts, heroes, villains, the plank, plenty of eyeliner, brine flies, a hint of the love that dare not speak its name, and a cave (because it’s not a pirate movie without a cave.

Kirk Redgrave (Kirby Heyborne, last seen at the Idaho Film Festival in Sons of Provo) and Flint Weaver met three short weeks ago. Both of them were twenty-something outcasts and loners in their landlocked home, but together they share a dream to become the best buccaneers the world has Pirates of the Great Salt Lake ever seen. Kirk and Flint take the pirate code to heart and slowly set out (in a leaky boat) for a life of pillaging and plunder.

Still, pirate life isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. For Kirk, it’s a life of failure; for Flint, one without reward. When the pair runs across a long-lost treasure map, they must battle a wicked rival to fulfill their wildest pirate dreams and claim the booty – which may or may not be cursed.


Egyptian Theatre, Friday, September 29th at 7:00pm

The Flicks, Saturday, September 30th at 9:30pm