Barry Munday Trailer

The Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me Was Losing My Balls

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (19)

This trailer is the genital-area slang, y’all! It’s for a movie called Barry Munday, which is debuting at SXSW next weekend (if you’re at the screening, I’ll probably be the dashing gentleman in the audience with a hoodie and a baseball cap. Come up and say hi! I’m sure you’ll be able to pick me out amongst the rest of the audience of movie geeks).

Anyway, I think we mentioned this movie a while back, and the premise sounded kind of, well, straight-to-DVD indie. But I think it’s going to be more like three-tits-to-the-awesome indie. It’s about a sex-hungry office drone wannabe cad (Patrick Wilson) who, well, loses his testicles. Like, for permanently. And then, he finds out that he’s facing a paternity suit from a woman (Judy Greer) who he doesn’t remember having sex with. And they somehow managed to make Judy Greer look less than attractive, which is not an easy feat since Judy Greer is already unattractively super attractive, if you get my meaning.

So, it looks decidedly low budget, but it also looks 61 … no 63 kinds of funny. Go ahead. Count.

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Was that Ball Loss Support Group as awesome as I thought it was? Because I thought I saw Kyle Gass AND Billy Dee AND Malcolm McDowell!

Posted by: Optimus Rhyme at March 4, 2010 11:45 AM

Perhaps I'm just missing it, but what exactly did losing his balls have to do with the paternity suit? Moreover, and this is me being pedantic again, but a man who loses his nuts isn't just a regular guy with no sex drive and more room in his Underoos. According to what I've read, lose your testicles and/or testosterone and you lose your drive to do anything. And wouldn't he begin losing his secondary sex characteristics and start growing breasts as estrogen overcomes the residual testosterone is his system? That's a more interesting story than yet another "idiot man-child grows up" plot.

Posted by: Tracer Bullet at March 4, 2010 11:46 AM

I have Patrick Wilson's balls in a drawer. And I nuzzle them every night. If he wants them back he will have to come and find me in my bunk.

Posted by: Nimue at March 4, 2010 11:48 AM

It was definitely a Billy Dee sighting, but it looked to be a later scene, not the Ball Loss Support Group.

Because let's face it, Billy Dee Williams could never pass himself off as a pair short.

Posted by: branded at March 4, 2010 11:54 AM

While on the one hand it sounds like a joke over beers taken too far, that trailer was actually a bit charming. And the cameos! MY GOD, THE CAMEOS.

Tracer, I thought that, too. Hopefully, they'll at least reference, like, hormone replacement or something. That's a thing, isn't it? Right?

Posted by: The Wandering Parakeet at March 4, 2010 12:00 PM

The confused guy at the end was a nice cherry on top of a well arranged preview. Unfortunately, the end of this movie will be as trite and cliche as every other "idiot man-child grows up" (H/T Tracer Bullet) movie ever made.

Posted by: Kballs at March 4, 2010 12:00 PM

Jean Smart! Jean Smart!

Posted by: badkittyuno at March 4, 2010 12:07 PM

Didn't Patrick Wilson star in the film Hard Candy, where he

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...nearly had his balls removed by Ellen Page?

Awesome bit of casting, there.

Posted by: hazel dean at March 4, 2010 12:09 PM

Aha! This is a very specific genre! I don't have an official name for it, but the working title is: Movies Mr. Snuggie Will Pretend to Turn His Nose Up To, But If I Rent It He Will Laugh Like a Fucking Hyena on Helium Throughout.

Good luck on coming out of your momma's vagina!

Posted by: Snuggiepants the Deathbringer at March 4, 2010 12:12 PM

Tracer Bullet, I'm pretty sure they could just put him on 'roids, or testosterone precursor or something. But otherwise, you're right, he'd basically turn into a giant Eunuch.

Posted by: banana at March 4, 2010 12:18 PM

That's the guy from Hard Candy? Dude needs to buy a cup.

Posted by: TSF at March 4, 2010 12:20 PM

So it's a funnier version of Knocked up with out the Heigl and the testicles. Got it.

Posted by: admin at March 4, 2010 12:37 PM

Is Meatloaf/Bob in the support group? Cause that would rock.

Guess I'm kinda obligated to see this and make fun of his plight. In the land of the ballless, the Uniballer is king!

Posted by: , at March 4, 2010 1:01 PM

And he was also in Little Children. Patrick Wilson loves him some castration pictures.

Posted by: Courtney at March 4, 2010 3:28 PM

SHOOTER McGAVIN!! SHOOTER McGAVIN!! SHOOTER McGAVIN!!!!

The cameos. They are ossom.

Posted by: Jelinas at March 4, 2010 3:38 PM

it was less uncofortable when he was a pedophile.
though looks like little red hood got the job done after all.

Posted by: rio at March 4, 2010 4:24 PM

Tracer Bullet brings up some interesting points. I don't think he'd lose his secondary sex characteristics though, cuz he already has them and it's not like that regresses. If his balls had been cut before puberty, then he'd be a real eunuch.

There are other areas in the body that produce testosterone, so he'll still make some (just not as much as he used to). I think the only real effect he'll have is no sex drive. But then there's also the psychosocial effects of not having balls ...

ANYWAY, maybe that's the point? Losing his balls caused him to have a reduced sex drive so that he could be an "idiot man-child that grows up and finally becomes a man-man." Guess you gotta lose your balls to become a real man.

Posted by: rawr at March 5, 2010 11:18 AM

Dude, no, getting your balls cut off would *not* make you grow tits. Even if you got your balls cut off before puberty, you would still not grow tits. Man without balls =/= woman. If that were the case there would be a lot of very happy diy trannies.

Posted by: koj at March 5, 2010 1:15 PM

I had testicular cancer. Only one was surgically removed, but the chemo I had to take permanently destroyed my body's ability to produce testosterone. The result? I inject 2 cc's of synthetic testosterone into my thigh every 2 weeks and my body works just the way it always did. That's it. Before we figured out I wasn't producing any testosterone, the only noticeable effects I experienced were tiredness and inability to put on any muscle during recovery from chemo.

Posted by: trainwreck at March 5, 2010 6:50 PM

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