Stuck / But I’m a Cheerleader
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The UCLA Film & Television Archive presents classic film and contemporary cinema in the Hammer's Billy Wilder Theater.
Register at cinema.ucla.edu to attend this in-theater screening.
Outfest UCLA Legacy Project presents the Andrew J. Kuehn Jr. Foundation preservation premiere of director Jamie Babbit’s feature-length But I’m a Cheerleader and short film Stuck. Babbit will be in person.
Stuck
Two aging lesbians in a longterm relationship get into a heated argument that leads to an unfortunate traffic accident deep in the California desert. (2001, dir. Jamie Babbit, DCP from the UCLA Film & Television Archive, color, 7 min.)
But I’m a Cheerleader
Now a venerated LGBTQ+ cult classic, this brilliant satire takes the heinous trend of gay conversion therapy and stretches it to hyperbolic heights. High schooler Megan Bloomfield (Natasha Lyonne) is more interested in listening to Melissa Etheridge than kissing boys, which spurs a panicked parental intervention and a road trip to True Directions. Bucking the film industry’s “dead lesbian” trend, Babbit ushered in a new cutting-edge queer comedy for a generation in real need of a laugh. (1999, dir. Jamie Babbit, DCP from the UCLA Film & Television Archive, color, 85 min.)