Billy's Dad is a Fudge-Packer is a 2004 black-and-white short comedy film

Comedy film

Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...

 written and directed by Jamie Donahue in her first non-acting effort. It is a parody of the 1950s social guidance film

Social guidance film

Social guidance films constitute a genre of films attempting to guide children and adults to behave in certain ways. Typically shown in school classrooms in the USA from the 1950s through the 1970s, the films covered topics including courtesy, responsibility, sexuality, drug use, and driver...

s, and depicts the life of a boy learning about adulthood in a traditional family. The apparently innocent account of family life in the 1950s is loaded with sexual innuendo. It was made by production company POWER UP

Power Up

POWER UP is an American non-profit organization and film production company with the stated mission "to promote the visibility and integration of gay women in entertainment, the arts, and all forms of media". It was founded in 2000 by film producers Stacy Codikow and Amy Shomer...

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Plot

Billy is a boy who has to decide what he will do with his life. His father works at the candy factory as a "fudge packer" (which is modern slang for homosexual anal sex

Anal sex

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) and "has several men under him". His mother is visited by a short, mannish woman who knows how to please the local housewives. His sister is preparing to be a good wife, and in almost every shot is moving a phallic object to her mouth.

Cast

• Spencer Daniels
  Spencer Daniels
  Spencer Eli Daniels is an American film and television teen actor.He was born in Los Angeles, California. Daniels began acting professionally at the age of ten. Daniels has appeared in over ten films including Star Trek and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button...
  
   as Billy
• Robert Gant
  Robert Gant
  Robert Gant is an American actor. He is sometimes credited as Robert J. Gant.-Early life:...
  
   as Billy's Dad
• Cady Huffman
  Cady Huffman
  Catherine Elizabeth “Cady” Huffman is a Tony Award-winning American actress.-Early life:Huffman was born in Santa Barbara, California to Lorayne, a pre-school assistant director turned realtor, and Clifford Huffman, an attorney...
  
   as Billy's Mom
• Alex Borstein
  Alex Borstein
  Alexandrea "Alex" Borstein is an American actress, singer, voice actress, writer and comedian. She is best known for her long-running role as Lois Griffin on the animated television series Family Guy, and as a cast member on the sketch comedy series MADtv.A native of Highland Park, Illinois,...
  
   as Betty Henderson
• Gina Rodgers as Billy's Sister
• D. C. Douglas
  D. C. Douglas
  D.C. Douglas is an American character actor, voice actor, and director now living in Los Angeles. Douglas was born in Berkeley, California. His father was a salesman, and his mother was an artist and writer. His grandparents were vaudeville performers...
  
  as 50's Announcer

2005

• Sundance Film Festival
• Tribeca Film Festival
• PlanetOut Film Festival COMEDY FINALIST
• Austin Gay & Lesbian International Film Festival
• Boston Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
• Brisbane Queer Film Festival
• Cineffable – Paris Lesbian Film Festival
• Cinequest
• Closet Cinema - Southwest Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
• Comedia - Just for Laughs
• Connecticut Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
• Fairy Tales International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
• FilmOut San Diego Film Festival
• Frameline
• Fresno Reel Pride Film Festival
• Image + Nation – Montreal Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
• Inside Out - Toronto Lesbian & Gay Film and Video Festival
• London Lesbian Film Festival
• Martha’s Vineyard Independent Film Festival
• Melbourne Queer Film Festival
• Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
• Nashville Film Festival
• Newport Beach Film Festival
• North Carolina Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
• OUT Loud Long Beach Art & Film Festival
• Oslo Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
• Outfest
• Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films
• Philadelphia Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
• PlanetOut Film festival
• Q Cinema-Fort Worth Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
• Queer Screen-Mardi Gras Film Festival, Darlinghurst, Australia
• Queersicht – Bern, Switzerland Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
• Reel Affirmations – Washington DC GLBT Film Festival
• Reel Queer Syracuse
• Rhode Island International Film Festival
• Sacramento International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
• Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film festival