LESLIE, MY NAME IS EVIL
DIR. REG HARKEMA | 2009 | CANADA | 85 MIN. 

Reg Harkema, has fashioned an irreverent, caustic new film loosely based around the followers of the Charlie Manson trial. Perry, a sheltered chemical engineer, falls in love with Leslie, a former homecoming princess, when he is selected to be a jury member at her death cult murder trial. Perry has always done what is expected of him: he was a straight-A student who got a good job and proposed to his Christian girlfriend, Dorothy. Leslie took a different path after she was traumatized by Kennedy’s assassination, an abortion and the divorce of her parents. She took LSD, joined a hippie death cult and helped murder a God-fearing citizen in her own home. When Perry and Leslie lock eyes in court, Perry is forced to confront the darkest parts of him and by extension, society.