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Featuring a vinyl DJ set with Gaudy God before the screening (at 11:30pm)In this film based on a true story, Michael Alig (Macaulay Culkin) arrives on a Greyhound bus in New York City desperate to leave his boring Midwestern past behind. After meeting downtown club kid James St. James (Seth Green) and influential nightclub owner Peter Gatien (Dylan McDermott), a fame-hungry Alig decides to throw the most controversial and over-the-top parties in the city. In just a few years Alig's drug addiction and erratic behavior threaten to destroy the empire he's created.
*35mm print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive*
Preceded by: PICKLE SURPRISE (Tom Rubnitz, 1989) 2 min – digital
A short, hilarious cooking mantra, featuring Sister Dimension, The "Lady" Bunny, RuPaul, David Dalrymple, Lahoma Van Zandt and Maria Ayala. "Where's the pickle? That's the surprise!" (Video Data Bank)
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Music Box Theatre, 3733 N Southport Ave,Chicago,IL,United States
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