This Spring Break The Party Will Be Celestial. That's the tagline for the new documentary, Duck Beach to Eternity, which chronicles the annual Memorial Day getaway in the Outer Banks for thousands of Mormon singles. But the tagline could just as easily have been: Are All Mormons As Weird As Mitt Romney? Watch this and decide. The movie, which debuted at the Seattle International Film Festival on Wednesday night, tries to help people better understand Mormons by showing us in our "natural habitat" doing "normal things." Which in this case involves pretty girls prancing around in bikinis and well-toned guys playing shirtless volleyball.
I've been to Duck Beach. In fact, I'm in Duck Beach to Eternity. That's me in the trailer, at roughly 1:12. I'm the blonde chick in the white shirt obnoxiously chewing her gum. Which makes the documentary basically a very sophisticated home video of my vacation with my friends.
Read Full Article »