Tickled Page #2

Synopsis: David Farrier, a New Zealand pop cultural reporter whose story subjects often verge into the bizarre, believes he's found his next story when he stumbles across an online video on the world of competitive endurance tickling, a sport where the participants, with hands and feet tied down, are tickled for as long as they can endure. Participants are flown to Los Angeles first class, paid $1,500, and put up for four nights in a luxury hotel. Suitable participants are deemed to be younger, muscular males. The event is held on a monthly basis. In contacting the organizers, US-based Jane O'Brien Media, via their popular Facebook to arrange for an interview, David receives a return message from one of their representatives, Debbie J. Kuhn, declining the offer, the message a homophobic rant largely against David. In that message, Debbie asserts that the competition is wholly a heterosexual athletic activity, she who does not appreciate what will be David's assumed gay bent on the story as a hom
Production: Magnolia Pictures
  16 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.6
Metacritic:
76
Rotten Tomatoes:
93%
R
Year:
2016
92 min
$612,816
Website
184 Views


Jane wouldn't tell us what

flight they were arriving on,

but she did tell us the day.

So from 05:
00 am,

I waited at arrivals.

Not sure what to expect,

I figured I'd disarm

the situation

with a rainbow-colored sign.

David:
How's it going?

I thought I'd make up

a good welcoming sign.

Good. How are you, sir?

That's all right. I thought

I'd arrive. How was the flight?

Oh, good.

Air New Zealand?

Oh, good. Hey, guys.

Kevin, nice to meet you, sir.

David. Nice to meet you.

You can. I gift this to you.

As a sign, I thought

it was pretty good.

Well, look, let's line up

a time to meet this week.

Marko:

David:
Tomorrow?

- Adam:

- Marko:

David:

Okay, tomorrow works well.

- Kevin:

- Marko:

David:
Oh, that's okay. It's the

New Zealand hospitality.

- David:
You can get me there.

- Kevin:

David:
Yeah, we're just rolling

from the beginning. Yeah, yeah.

Okay. We've got a thing

in New Zealand,

we're okay to film

in public spaces.

So I'm just following

the journey.

Okay, all right. Well, we're--

Adam:

It's not--

David:
Okay. Well, I mean,

we're shooting a documentary,

so we'll keep... it's a--

David:
Mm.

David:
Okay.

Okay. We're okay to film in

public spaces in New Zealand,

so we're doing that here.

David:

All right, we'll see you soon.

- Marko:

- David:
Okay, sounds good.

All right, see you soon.

David:

No worries. We'll talk soon.

Marko:

David:
Hey, Marko.

It's Dave farrier. How are you?

Yeah, good. How are you

settling into Auckland?

Okay. No, that sounds

good to me, I think.

Just, Dylan and I both talked,

and we just weren't confident,

or didn't think it was

a good idea

just to go straight to a room.

Maybe it's a cultural thing.

But a conference room

- um, of your choosing,

- Marko:
Okay.

Whether it's at the Hilton or

elsewhere, is absolutely fine.

Marko:

Marko:
And, um...

David:

Marko:

Dylan:

Marko:

Dylan:

Kevin:

Dylan:

Kevin:

Dylan:

Kevin:

David:
Sure.

Dylan:

David:

Kevin:

David:
Kevin didn't take

to Dylan very well

and wants to meet me alone.

I quickly make this

covert piece of technology.

A camera in a coffee cup.

Kevin:
What's the end game here?

What do you get at the end

or even if you get everything

you want?

- David:
Mm. Mm.

- And what are we risking here?

You know, do we really want

someone coming after you

with all that money?

I've known a lot of

rich people in my life.

I've worked for a lot of them.

They don't work by the

same set of rules.

They don't dangle them out

of buildings any more,

but they don't have to.

And that's the thing.

They start suing,

and you're done halfway through

or a quarter of the way through

because it costs so much

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