The Finger Wife
SUMMER 2025
Screening July 20, 2025 @ 11:30am
“Angry and funny. Reckless and thoughtful. Using animation to get away with the impossible, the imprudent and the impolite. ”
The Finger Wife is a domestic horror story with a biting sense of humor - part hand-drawn animation, part stop-motion, all bizarro feminist propaganda!
It’s 1975. A smart, ambitious woman (The Wife) is stuck in the kitchen. When feisty, martini-drinking Betty steps out of a 1950s cookbook, The Wife is confronted with what she really wants out of life (it's not to make another meatloaf). Faced with Betty’s tough love and in a desperate effort to find one damn minute for herself, The Wife takes matters into her own hands, with gleefully horrific results.
(RT 7:52)
“A clever, dark, and poignant commentary on how traditional gender roles stifle even the brightest and most ambitious women. It’s got a retro vibe that combines stop motion and 2D animation in a way that’s rarely done these days.”
