  duct tape forever is a 2002 comedy film based on the red green show. it was written by steve smith, the actor who plays red green. ==plot== when a developer's limousine gets stuck in a sink hole on possum lodge's property and several attempts to recover it send it into the lake, the developer takes the matter to court. the town and the presiding judge, who have been looking for decades for a way to shut down the lodge, fine the lodge $10,000 and give them thirty days to pay, and in default the lodge reverts to the town. red's nephew harold green (patrick mckenna) pleads with the judge for a change to the time limit and she agrees - she makes it 10 days instead. the lodge members try to brainstorm a way out of the mess, but once again harold is the only one with a viable idea - 3m is running a duct tape sculpture contest in minnesota, with a third prize of $10,000 (which the members feel they have a shot at). the members beg, borrow and steal (literally) enough duct tape to construct a goose, and red, harold and dalton humphrey (bob bainborough) set off for the long ride to the contest. however, sinister forces are at work. the developer has convinced the town's sheriff (darren frost) to stop the trio by any means necessary. the sheriff is accompanied by his beautiful deputy (melissa dimarco) who, against all logic, is smitten with harold, although harold is currently smitten with dalton's indifferent daughter. the sheriff attempts a number of dirty tricks in order to waylay red. at one point they flatten the possum van's tires, only to find out that dalton has siphoned all the gas out of their police car, and that the nearest working gas pump is 20 miles away. at another point, the sheriff digs a hole in the road with a backhoe, but find their police car on the opposite side from the van. in attempting to use the backhoe to move the police car to the other side of the hole, the sheriff instead drops the car into the hole, and the possum van drives right over it. eventually the developer takes matters into his own hands and kidnaps harold. red sends dalton back for reinforcements, as he plans to get away with both harold and the goose. while harold is suffering the company of the developer, the developer reveals that his father was also a lazy possum lodge member, and that his mother
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