Ladies and gentlemen, it is with an overabundance of confidence and pride that I present to you Frank & Cindy, an independently made documentary from boy genius G.J. Echternkamp, a lad whose last name I dare don’t attempt to pronounce. This fascinating 73-minute feature explores the dysfunctional lives of G.J.’s own mother and stepfather, two individuals whose careers took a detour to the wrong side of the tracks.
Back in the early '80s, Frank Garcia was a member of OXO, whose hit "Whirly Girl" would prove to be their only chart topper, thus plunging them into the illustrious One-Hit Wonder category. During the short-lived group's heyday, Frank met Cynthia Brown, a woman who was already two decades his senior (hey, we’ve all done it) and the two wed. Twenty-five years later, Frank and Cindy aren’t exactly the picture-perfect couple.
As a matter of fact, they don’t really get along.
Actually, they hate each other.
Cindy (the very epitome of a procrastinator) had always hoped to put her talented son through film school. Instead, she has furnished Frank a huge studio in the basement of their home in hopes that he’ll once again return to the music scene… hopping from one job to another while hoping to someday get her teeth fixed.
Frank (the very archetype of a lazy fat ass) has been busy squandering his wife’s money all of these years, using coffee cans as toilets whilst being banished to living in his studio, and being perfectly content with drinking his life away. When he makes the umpteenth vow to quit drinking once and for all, Cindy pulls a few strings to get him his first bona fide job in over a quarter of a century — at a film school.
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