Following a concussion, a Candidelike college football player (Jake Croker) finds himself being alternately fucked and fucked over by a parade of American grotesques, including perverted evangelicals, human-experimenting alphabet agencies, reality-TV gurus, and every gun-happy libertarian who crosses his path.

It’s definitely hit-and-miss, but this enthusiastically gonzo mix of A Clockwork Orange, O Lucky Man!, and Brazil—reconfigured for a modern empire gone mad—comes from Ken Finkleman, who did some hard time in Hollywood back in the ’80s before finding his feet again back home with The Newsroom.

In other words: he means it. Sample dialogue: “Would you trust a Chinaman with an A-bomb wrapped in weaponized anthrax? Have you thought that one through?”

Village 8 Cinemas Theatre 8, December 1 (9:30 p.m.) and December 4 (6 p.m.)