Lifetime Guarantee: Phranc's Adventures in Plastic

Lifetime Guarantee: Phranc's Adventures in Plastic

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Status

Released

Release Date

Nov 24, 2001

Runtime

0h 58m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

35%

Original Title

Lifetime Guarantee: Phranc's Adventures in Plastic

Director

Lisa Udelson

Description

This engaging, long-unavailable documentary follows Phranc—a butch lesbian performer who rose to underground fame in LA’s punk scene before reinventing herself as “America’s favorite Jewish lesbian folk singer” and touring with acts like the Smiths and Hüsker Dü—as she embarks on her surprising new career: Tupperware saleswoman. Using her gregarious personality and performance experience, Phranc finds remarkable success and a newfound community hosting Tupperware parties, shooting straight to the top of the West Coast’s highest sellers. But what does it mean to be a gender-nonconforming queer woman in a business typically associated with the classic postwar suburban housewife? As the irrepressible Phranc herself puts it, “I can change closed minds just by showing up.”