Sons of Provo is pretty funny. Brilliant on the part of the actors I think, who also did the music in the film, and.. I’ll write about that later. But first..

This just on the radio I heard (Doug Wright, KSL): some unknown hoodlum in a DVD duplication center swapped a porn film into more than one copy of Sons of Provo and it made it to retail sales. All appearances and apparently even the printing on the DVD are that it is the Sons of Provo film, but when you put it in the player.. hoo boy it ain’t.

So I just recently watched this movie on DVD, and dangit, I got the wrong one! Who will find the golden DVD?

That joke aside, the very scandal will surely create free publicity for the film. But I would add seriously that I wouldn’t want anyone to watch what this prankster swapped into the wrong case and print screen.

I trust Kurt Hale’s (president of HaleStorm) witness that this is no marketing ploy and they were not behind this. It was some very foul prankster in a duplication center - who if he is LDS and hooked on porn may be doing this as a cry for help and hoping to be caught - no doubt if they track him down he’ll be fired. Um.. and humiliated. All DVDs in stores have apparently been recalled for examination, which makes big overhead and maybe losses for HaleStorm.

And free publicity. But again I do trust that HaleStorm wasn’t behind this. Over the long road, abuses strengthen victims - all that aside, and back to the original point - this is a funny movie and I’ll write about it next entry. I wish I had not missed it in theaters, that and The Work and the Story - which is also funny, very funny.

If only Mobsters and Mormons had some scandal associated with it..