Booger

Reeling from the death of her roommate, Izzy, Anna becomes obsessed with finding Izzy’s lost cat, Booger. Compounding the trauma is a festering wound on her hand from Booger’s parting attack, which is healing no better than her heart and exerting a deeper effect than she accepts: namely, she is growing hair in unwelcome places, playing with foil, coughing hairballs, and eating cat food by the case. As her world unravels around her, Anna relentlessly continues her search, desperate to restore normalcy to her life and self, ignoring the reality that both are transforming into something out of nightmares. Featuring a tour-de-force performance by Grace Glowicki in the lead, Mary Dauterman’s impressive feature debut is at turns hilarious, horrifying, and heartbreaking; a grotesque comedy about grief and its manifestations; a body horror both funny and sad; and a tragedy to make you laugh and squirm. (Florida Film Festival)