Screened as part of NZIFF 2008

I Think We're Alone Now 2007

Directed by Sean Donnelly

An intimate look into the lives of two stalkers of 80s teen pop one-hit-wonder Tiffany, Sean Donnelly's I Think We're Alone Now is absolutely disturbing, wince-inducing trainwreck viewing of the highest order.

USA In English
69 minutes DigiBeta

Director

Photography

Phil Buccellato

Editors

Sean Donnelly
,
Phil Buccellato

Music

Alesandro Minoli
,
Dan Wholey
,
Malcolm Francis
,
Cyrus Shahmir
,
Calvin Lam
,
Palo Colorado
,
Josh Neuhmann

With

Jeff Deane Turner
,
Kelly McCormick

Festivals

Slamdance 2008

Elsewhere

An intimate look into the lives of two stalkers of 80s teen pop one-hit-wonder Tiffany, Sean Donnelly's I Think We're Alone Now is absolutely disturbing, wince-inducing trainwreck viewing of the highest order. These are characters so jaw-droppingly singular no scriptwriter could ever dream them up: Jeff Deane Turner, a middle-aged time travel and radionics enthusiast who believes he can communicate telepathically with Tiffany through a machine he's created; Kelly McCormick, an intersexed fitness freak who's convinced they are destined to be together no matter what happens ("I love her down to the bone marrow!").  More than a shock sensationalist exposé about weirdo stalkers, the doco aims deeper. It's equally a poignant and unsettling study of two social misfits, grappling with mental illness and loneliness, who pose less harm to the object of their obsession than they do to themselves. — AY