Eerie
Wife, mother,poet, proofreader --Lydia Covington-Spielburg is leading a typical downtown NYC life, until a long-distance phone call disrupts it. At the other end of the lines Erie Canal boat captain Bob Lietzke, telling Lydia that her husband, Steven "Padre" Spielburg, a small-time filmmaker with a big-time name, has disappeared while scouting locations for his new film, "Eerie." A late-night plane ride brings Lydia to a place where moonlight shimmers off ancient industrial waterways, egrets nest in rusted old barge heaps and Capt. Lietzke turns out to be a handsome young man with mixed feelings about spending the rest of his life in the shadow of his father, Head Lockmaster on the canal. Accompanied by First Mate Old Foghorn - - grand prize winner at the Yokohama Karate-Karaoke competition -- they begin a journey down the canal, in search of Lydia's missing husband, in search of the lost grandeur on what was once considered the "Eighth Wonder Of The World," in search of the kind of love that disappeared from her marriage long ago. Their investigation leads them to Capt. Ralph, the Latin bed & breakfast owner trying to convert his guests from french toast to fried bananas; to the Stoned Spelunkers, who may have traded their canoe for the missing man's Harley; to the canal hitchhiker Ginger, whose response to Lydia's question, "Did you screw my husband?" is "Probably -- who's your husband?" to Dick Needle, who may have tattooed a slice of cherry pie on the missing man's bicep. The trail ultimately ends at her husband's lair midst the exotic potholes of Moss Island. There Lydia finds Cherry Pie Rosenbloom - who bears a striking resemblance to the youthful Lydia -- and we find out that Lydia's secrets are buried in both "Eerie,", the script that her husband was working on, and in the Erie Canal itself, the murky charm of which she finally rediscovers.
- Released
- 1997
Details
Release year: 1997
Storyline
Wife, mother,poet, proofreader --Lydia Covington-Spielburg is leading a typical downtown NYC life, until a long-distance phone call disrupts it. At the other end of the lines Erie Canal boat captain Bob Lietzke, telling Lydia that her husband, Steven "Padre" Spielburg, a small-time filmmaker with a big-time name, has disappeared while scouting locations for his new film, "Eerie." A late-night plane ride brings Lydia to a place where moonlight shimmers off ancient industrial waterways, egrets nest in rusted old barge heaps and Capt. Lietzke turns out to be a handsome young man with mixed feelings about spending the rest of his life in the shadow of his father, Head Lockmaster on the canal. Accompanied by First Mate Old Foghorn - - grand prize winner at the Yokohama Karate-Karaoke competition -- they begin a journey down the canal, in search of Lydia's missing husband, in search of the lost grandeur on what was once considered the "Eighth Wonder Of The World," in search of the kind of love that disappeared from her marriage long ago. Their investigation leads them to Capt. Ralph, the Latin bed & breakfast owner trying to convert his guests from french toast to fried bananas; to the Stoned Spelunkers, who may have traded their canoe for the missing man's Harley; to the canal hitchhiker Ginger, whose response to Lydia's question, "Did you screw my husband?" is "Probably -- who's your husband?" to Dick Needle, who may have tattooed a slice of cherry pie on the missing man's bicep. The trail ultimately ends at her husband's lair midst the exotic potholes of Moss Island. There Lydia finds Cherry Pie Rosenbloom - who bears a striking resemblance to the youthful Lydia -- and we find out that Lydia's secrets are buried in both "Eerie,", the script that her husband was working on, and in the Erie Canal itself, the murky charm of which she finally rediscovers.
Top credits
- Stuart Rudin — Old Foghorn
- Grayson McCouch — McCarthy