This year's Newport Beach Film Festival is big on Christopher Guest-ian mockumentaries about the humiliations of small people pursuing big dreams; there are so many, in fact, that I'd be tempted to declare a moratorium if so many of these pictures weren't so damn good. Memron is a black gem about the former employees of a nefarious corporation (if the title sounds familiar, it should) who band together to start their own tiny corporation based in a cluttered suburban garage. Every single damn thing that can go wrong does, and everybody in the film is just sleazy enough that we can laugh at their misfortunes and just human enough that we

Writer-director Nancy Hower has a wicked wit, and it's on full display in Memron, a new mockumentary about the Enron scandal. There's a Kenneth Clay, who becomes the star resident of a minimum-security prison, and there's a group of formerly coddled employees who are trying to figure out ways to start life anew. Maybe bottled air is the answer?

TRUTH BE TOLD
April 22-28, 2004
By Robert Wilonsky

Nancy Hower's Memron, a mockumentary about the dissolution of the greatest company in the world and it's impact on employees who lost their paycheck and their purpose. Meanwhile, their former boss suffers in a prison where everybody has to use the same golf clubs. The movie is loose and nasty and populated by familiar character actors riffing off each other; everybody gets a good solo, and it's a short, sharp kick to the head.


'Memron' embezzles hilarity
by Adam Wilson

Everybody improvises. All of us at some time have made up a story on the fly. But it takes a special group of people to play their improvisations off one another — and be hilarious while doing it. .............................................complete article>>