Shortbus will steam up TV screens around the UK when it becomes available to own and rent on DVD and down-load-to-own from June 18, 2007.Directed by New York’s hottest property, John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig and the Angry Inch), Shortbus has shocked audiences around the world with its opening auto-fellatio scene, a scene which will be talked about for years to come. Featuring never before seen footage and a behind the scenes look at the making of the film, including a casting process involving 100 people playing spin the bottle… Shortbus will shock, intrigue and excite. It’s the perfect bedroom aid - a must have sex toy.Produced by Howard Gertler (Wet Hot American Summer), Tim Perell (The Opportunists, The Myth of Fingerprints), and John Cameron Mitchell Shortbus stars Sook-Yin Lee (Hedwig and the Angry Inch, 3 Needles), Paul Dawson (The Big Kahuna), Lindsay Beamish (Six Feet Under, CSI) and PJ DeBoy. Shortbus also brings together a fresh, edgy ensemble cast including Raphael Barker, Jay Brannan, Peter Stickles and legendary New York cabaret performer Justin Bond (Kiki and Herb).Shortbus explores the lives of several emotionally challenged characters as they navigate the comic and tragic intersections between love and sex in and around a modern-day underground salon.A sex therapist who has never had an orgasm, a dominatrix who is unable to connect, a gay couple who are deciding whether to open up their relationship, and the people who weave in and out of their lives, all converge on a weekly gathering called Shortbus, a mad nexus of art, music, politics and polysexual carnality.
Shortbus tells its story with sexual frankness, suggesting new ways to reconcile questions of the mind, pleasures of the flesh and imperatives of the heart.