Tickled Page #5

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:
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Year:
2016
92 min
$612,816
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appearing everywhere.

This video...

Just, all of them.

All of them start blowing up.

And there was threats.

It said, "watch out!

Your family better watch out

because we're gonna put your

last name to shame.

Any time you search your last

name, it's gonna pop up."

Like, direct threats.

They ended up making a website,

putting my

personal information:

My name, my address,

my personal phone number,

my email address,

all with just dumb lies.

Then Debbie kuhn starts going

off on me left and right,

sending emails to the

high school that I coach at.

Woman:
"I have additional

information as a past employer.

You don't want this

guy in your league.

Can you afford the distraction,

the press,

with an outed gay guy

having a male tickling fetish,

in which he likes to tickle

and be tickled

by tied-up other gay

athletes and bodybuilders?"

False accusations,

saying I'm a drug addict

and I was a child molester

and I'm gay, and this and that,

which none of those things

have ever been true.

I've always been very proud.

The way I walk around,

I'm proud of who I am.

You know what I mean?

So to speak.

I'm confident in myself

as an athlete,

as a person, as a player.

But when I'd go to try-outs,

the first thing

I would think about is,

"well, I wonder

if these coaches

have looked up that video?"

And it's happened.

It has happened.

I've been released

from football teams.

They've told me, uh,

that I'm the best player

on that team at that position,

but because it is

a distraction for the media,

they don't need that attention

and they'll go with somebody

else 'cause they don't feel

like explaining it.

You know, and I've actually

dealt with a lot of things

because of it.

It's cost me money, it's cost me

jobs, it's caused me harassment,

which is exactly what Debbie

kuhn and Jane o'brien wanted.

So, I mean, more or less in

that aspect, they've won.

David:
It's obvious we're not

the only ones being harassed

by Jane o'brien media.

And there are so many websites

made up like tj's

which seem to exist purely

to shame the guys

who've been tickled.

What goes on at these shoots,

and why is she so aggressive?

Dylan's been doing

some research,

and he thinks he knows where

the next shoot is happening.

We stake out the studio,

hoping to find out

how a competitive

tickling shoot goes down.

Dominic:
Okay, car.

And another car. Two cars.

David:
Two cars.

Dominic:
Can you see

what the car's doing?

I've lost him.

- Dominic:
Who's that guy?

- David:
Oh, that's Marko.

Dylan:
Oh, yeah. And we've got

four guys going in so far.

Dominic:
Four guys.

Dylan:
That's the guy

from New Zealand.

David:
Yep, there's Kevin.

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