22nd Calgary Underground Film Festival

April 17-27, 2025

13th CUFF.Docs Documentary Film Festival

November 19-23, 2025

Relaxer

United States, 2018: 91 minutes: Canadian Premiere
Archives 2018
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Globe Cinema
Sun, Apr 22 7:00 PM Buy

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CUFF Secret Screening!

Doom and gloom are on the way. The Y2K apocalypse can't be stopped. Abbie's older brother issues him the ultimate challenge before it goes down: beat the infamous level 256 in Pac-Man and no getting up from the couch until he does so. Abbie’s survival story begins here; inside a rotting living room with no food or water, and a revolving door of numb-nut friends and acquaintances. It’s THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL by way of SLACKER.

OFFICIAL SELECTION
AFI Fest 2018
Fantasia Film Festival 2018
SXSW Film Festival 2018
Virginia Film Festival 2018

press for Relaxer

"Outrageously perverse: from piss to Pac-Man, from Faygo to JERRY MAGUIRE, the cacophonous gnarly lot of it colliding into something wildly, happily unique"
- Calum Marsh, VILLAGE VOICE

details

Comedy / Fantasy / Horror / Narrative

91 minutes

credits

Director
Joel Potrykus

Screenwriter
Joel Potrykus

Cast
Joshua Burge
Amari Cheatom
David Dastmalchian
Adina Howard
Andre Hyland

Producer
Ashley Young

Executive Producers
Daniel Berger
Aaron Katz

Music
Neon Indian
Alan Palomo

Cinematographer
Adam J. Minnick

Editor
Joel Potrykus

Official Website
https://www.relaxer.pizza/

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