Special Screening

Special Needs Revolt!

Thursday, October 1, 2026 | 7:30pm

Little Theatre 1 (240 East Ave.)
Doors open at 7:00pm

An action-comedy starring people with disabilities.

Billy Bates, a young man with Down syndrome, wakes from a three-year coma to discover that the United States has been turned into a brutal dictatorship thanks to President Kruger. This narcissistic despot with bad hair has put all people with disabilities into institutions. Billy becomes the leader of a diverse group of resistance fighters committed to ending Kruger’s reign of terror.

Taking inspiration from Troma’s The Toxic Avenger to 80s action-satires like The Running Man, and an attitude of independence and inclusion, Special Needs Revolt! addresses developmentally disabled adults’ desire to be portrayed as functional adults, with the full range of adult emotions and desires, while simultaneously being a political comedy, full of over-the-top visceral action.

Includes a post-film Q&A with local filmmaker Adrian Esposito.