Boston Globe to Review HairKutt in Today's Issue

The Globe will critique filmmaker Curtis Elliott’s award winning documentary for the film's one week run in Boston today through Nov. 10.

(PRWEB) November 4, 2005 --St. Louis, MO--The Boston Globe, one of the nation’s most trusted daily publications, will run a review of filmmaker Curtis Elliott’s award winning documentary, HairKutt, in today's edition.

The film, which will screen at the Somerville Theatre in the Boston suburb of Somerville today through next Thursday, November 10th , has garnered two awards in 2005: Best Social Documentary at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival in Los Angeles (March, 2005) and Best Documentary Feature at Cinema St. Louis’ Independent Filmmaker’s Showcase in July.

The Boston Herald, Boston Phoenix and Boston.com all have previously ran critically acclaimed reviews of HairKutt leading up to the film's one week run in the Boston area.

HairKutt is a sixty minute, award winning documentary about four friends from St. Louis, MO who travel to the Smokey Mountains of Tennessee in the hopes of curing one of them from the throes of heroin addiction.

The story evolves around Bryant “HairKutt” Johnson, a heroin addict of more than 15 years. The documentary takes many twists and turns as “HairKutt” becomes so debilitated from the withdrawal of the poisonous drug that he walks away from the rented cabin used as a drug rehab facility to return to the streets of St. Louis (more than a ten hour drive away) and the source of his addiction: heroin.

Coaxed back to the cabin by his friends, “HairKutt” is eventually rushed to a rural Tennessee hospital after severe life-threatening vomiting episodes. Is the hospital trip a death bed for “HairKutt” or a springboard for a new life free from the drug that has dominated his teen and adult years? The story climaxes more than a year and a half later with a tell-all truth about the fateful trip and “HairKutt’s” final condition.

HairKutt made its’ St. Louis debut in front of a crowd of over 700 at the famed Tivoli Theater in the University City, (MO) Loop on May 12th, 2005.

For more info or the view movie trailer, please visit www.itstoughtogetoffdrugs.com or Google Search keyword: HairKutt or contact Curtis Elliott at 314.324.5435 or 314.395.2342.

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