I Like Killing Flies
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Cast & Crew
Matt Mahurin
Matt Mahurin
Matt Mahurin
Matt Mahurin
Nicholas Renbeck
Chris Toland
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Noted artist illustrator and video-director Mahurin celebrates one of his favorite restaurants--Shopins, a Greenwich Village institution, much beloved by its loyal clientele for decades. With over 900 items on his menu, all conjured up in his Rube Goldberg-style kitchen the size of a walk-in closet, Kenny Shopsin is chef de cuisine and proprietor. Irascible and intermittently brilliant, he started cooking to earn a few extra bucks and now makes more than nine hundred different items, including hundreds of soups and ethnic comfort food of every variety. When there is a lull in the cooking, he steps out from behind his Frankenstein stove and holds court, serving up morsels of wisdom and wit on life, death, sex, politics and even food. But, after 32 years in the same sheltered workshop, Kenny loses his lease and the family must now find a new location--a move vigorously supported both financially and logistically by customers who can't bear the thought of life without Shopsins. Mahurin, himself one of the faithful, was asked to record the move for posterity, and what emerges is a hilarious and heartfelt hymn to individuality, independence, and idiosyncrasy--not just in the kitchen, but in life.
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Matt Mahurin
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Released in United States January 2004
Released in United States October 20, 2006
Released in United States on Video September 25, 2007
Released in United States Summer July 28, 2006
Shown at Sundance Film Festival (Documentary Competition) January 15-25, 2004.
Released in United States January 2004 (Shown at Sundance Film Festival (Documentary Competition) January 15-25, 2004.)
Released in United States Summer July 28, 2006
Released in United States on Video September 25, 2007
Released in United States October 20, 2006 (Los Angeles)
