2: DAVID RUSSELL is the writer and director of movie "Spanking the Monkey," (Fine Line Features). The film is about Raymond, who returns after his freshman year at MIT to find he has to spend the summer caring for his mother, who's broken her leg. His loneliness combined with his mother's depression results in a dark comedy about mother-son incest. "Spanking the Monkey" won the Audience Award for the most popular dramatic film at the Sundance Film Festival in January. DAVID RUSSELL has also written and directed two short narrative films, "Bingo Inferno" and "Hairway to the Stars," which were also shown at the Sundance Film Festival.
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