Double Trouble

### Starring

Dustin York, Gerri Lawlor, Isabelle Ellingson, Mark Petrakis, Isabelle Barbier, James Heckman, Matt Heckman, Randy Rose

### Music

The Residents

***Double Trouble*** is an unfinished feature film by The Residents, which was partly shot in 2016 with collaborator Don Hardy. The film would have starred Dustin York as Randy Junior, the son of The Residents' lead singer, Randy Rose.

Following a number of delays in funding, the January 2019 death of actress Gerri Lawlor, and the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the project was ultimately reworked to become a new screenplay titled *Triple Trouble*, which was filmed during the pandemic, and completed and released in 2022.

If realized as planned, *Double Trouble* would have featured footage from The Residents' earlier abandoned film *Vileness Fats*, incorporating new footage in order to act as a semi-sequel to the unfinished film. Footage from *Vileness Fats* was ultimately incorporated into *Triple Trouble*, which itself acts as a semi-sequel to both *Vileness Fats* and the unproduced *Double Trouble*.

## Plot

Six or seven years into the future, following the death of Randy Rose, the lead singer of The Residents, his son Randy Junior comes across the footage for the band's unfinished film *Vileness Fats* in a foot locker in his mother's basement.

Watching the footage, Junior becomes "completely obsessed" and "further and further sucked into the world of *Vileness Fats*", he starts to find that his life is beginning to unravel in a way parallel to the film's protagonist Steve.

## History

### Pre-production and early footage

The Residents announced a new feature film project titled *Double Trouble* in autumn 2016, with a trailer directed by Don Hardy and starring Randy Rose, titled "Junior's Double Trouble Nightmare", released to YouTube.

Around twenty minutes of footage from the screenplay was shot in 2016 with collaborator Don Hardy, who had previously produced the documentary *Theory of Obscurity: A Film About The Residents*. A second trailer featuring excerpts from this footage followed in September 2017.

The Cryptic Corporation continued to seek funding for the film from 2017 onwards, although no further shooting was completed. On January 29th 2019, actress Gerri Lawlor (Junior's Mom) passed away.

### COVID-19 and *Triple Trouble*

By the start of 2020, The Cryptic Corporation had secured approximately 10 percent of the budget for *Double Trouble*. In March of that year, the COVID-19 coronavirus spread internationally and became a major pandemic, necessitating lockdowns and social distancing worldwide.

While in lockdown, Homer Flynn and The Residents reworked the screenplay, rewriting large portions of it, with the resulting screenplay (now titled *Triple Trouble*) acting as a pseudo-sequel to the unproduced *Double Trouble* - itself a pseudo-sequel to the cancelled *Vileness Fats*.

With the new script, The Residents and Flynn completed the reworked film over ten days in lockdown; the resulting film contained the earlier footage shot by The Residents with Don Hardy in 2016 as flashback sequences presented in color, with the new footage presented in black and white with only "intentional splashes" of color.

Post-production was completed on *Triple Trouble* by May 2022. The film premiered at the 29th Chicago International Film Festival on July 29th 2022, and was later released on DVD and Blu-ray on March 24th 2023.

## Cast and characters

* Dustin York as Randall "Junior" Rose
* Gerri Lawlor as Junior's Mom
* Isabelle Ellingson as Suzi
* Mark Petrakis as Father Reilly
* Isabelle Barbier as Amy
* James and Matt Heckman as Al and Ollie Gump
* Randy Rose as himself

## See also

* "Junior's Double Trouble Nightmare"
* "Double Trouble Trailer"
* *Vileness Fats*
* *Triple Trouble*

## External links and references

* "Junior's Double Trouble Nightmare" via YouTube
* *Double Trouble* trailer via Youtube

**Scene by scene**
1: Arf and Omega · 2: Bellboys & Townspeople Battle 1 · 3: Town 1 · 4: Mother's House 1 · 5: Weescoosa & Ninnie 1 · 6: Cave 1 · 7: Weescoosa & Ninnie 2 · 8: Weescoosa's Flashback · 9: Weescoosa & Ninnie 3 · 10: Bellboys & Townspeople Battle 2 · 11: Town 2 · 12: Desert 2 · 13: Lonesome Jack & Peggy · 14: Desert 1 · 15: Mother's House 2 · 16: Town 3 · 17: Banquet Hall · 18: Cave 2 · 19: Bridge 1 · 20: The Master Plan · 21: Cave 3 · 22: Desert 3 · 23: Night Club 1 · 24: Desert 4 · 25: Night Club 2 · 26: Desert 5 · 27: Cave 4 · 28: Night Club 3 · 29: Desert 6 · 30: Night Club 4 · 31: Cave 5 · 32: Night Club 5 · 33: Mother's House 3 · 34: Night Club 6 · 35: The Window of Never
**Cast and characters**
Saint Steven / Lonesome Jack (Jay Clem) · Weescoosa (Sally Lewis) · Arf and Omega Berry (Palmer Eiland and George Ewart) · Ninnie (Danny Williams) · Steve's Mother (Marge Howard) · Peggy Honeydew (Margaret Smyk) · Weenie (Danny Williams) · Uncle Willy (Hardy Fox)
with
Irene Dogmatic · J. Raoul Brody · Barry "Schwump" Schwam · Hugo Olson · Bill Dewalt · Diane Flynn · Homer Flynn · Tony Logan · Dennis Sealy · The Mysterious N. Senada as himself

**Crew**
The Residents: direction, screenplay, music, sets, costumes · Graeme Whifler: lighting, sets, second unit direction · Diane Flynn: costumes · John Kennedy: editing
**Settings**
Vileness Flats (Mother's House · Ninnie's House · Banquet Hall · Willy's Hot Spot) · Motel · The Cave · The Desert · The Window of Never
**Soundtrack music**
"Aircraft Damage" · "The Importance of Evergreen" · "Eloise" · "Kamikaze Lady" · "Lonely At The Top" · "Fever" · "Russian Love Song" · *X Is For Xtra* ("Theme From X" · "Slow Texture" · "Asonarose" · "Soundtrack Music Piece 17")
**Related works**
The Boarding House performance · *Santa Dog* · *Meet The Residents* · *Not Available* (*X Is For Xtra*) · *The Third Reich 'n Roll* (video) · "March de la Winni" · Oh Mummy! Oh Daddy! performance · *Fingerprince* · *Whatever Happened To Vileness Fats?* (soundtrack · *PAL TV LP*) · *Video Voodoo* · *Twenty Twisted Questions* · *Icky Flix* (soundtrack · "The Knife Fight" · *RZ VF*) · *Theory of Obscurity: A Film About The Residents* · ***Double Trouble*** ("Junior's Double Trouble Nightmare" · trailer) · *Triple Trouble* (soundtrack)
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