Chip Gutchell’s (director and co-writer Tyler Cornack) proctologist clearly learned his trade at the hands of a prison rapist, yet somehow the bewildered, unhappily married IT tech leaves the exam a new man. The sudden desire to lodge things up his backside is very much a new development, and isn’t sated by a bar of soap or Sorry board game piece. Jump ahead nine years: a missing child case remains unsolved, and recovering alcoholic Chip once again gets the itch, only it’s not for a cocktail. A tyke goes missing during his company’s Take Your Child to Work Day celebration, and the detective assigned the case is the same one assigned Chip as his AA sponsor. (As Detective Fox, Tyler Rice suggests a young, greasy Stephen Baldwin, whether he likes it or not.) I’m all for playing satire straight, but boy, with so little shading and coloration, Cornack’s performance is that of a somnambule. And a film that borrows a cup of premise from Howard Stern’s never-produced Fartman shouldn’t take itself so damn seriously. (2019) — Scott Marks
This movie is not currently in theaters.