Grandpa's Still in the Tuff Shed (2003)

Award winning documentary filmmakers, Robin, Kathy and Shelly Beeck, with the help of filmmaker Michael Moore, have spent the last five years filming a 60-minute feature-length documentary ... See full summary »

Director:

Robin Beeck

Writers:

Arlan Beeck, Betty Beeck,

Stars:

The Puzzled Townsfolk of Nederland Colorado

Cast

Credited cast:
The Puzzled Townsfolk of Nederland Colorado

Storyline

Award winning documentary filmmakers, Robin, Kathy and Shelly Beeck, with the help of filmmaker Michael Moore, have spent the last five years filming a 60-minute feature-length documentary on Bredo Morstoel, a Norweigan who was frozen by his grandson in 1983. Since then, the world famous...well...stiff has been lying under 800 pounds of dry ice in a TUFF SHED behind his grandsons' castle-like house in the 9000-ft Colorado ski town of Nederland. The grandson, Trygve Bauge, has long since been deported back to Norway, but Grandpa Bredo has remained, unwittingly becoming a worldwide symbol of the legal rights of the temporarily dead.... "The people of Nederland take Grandpa very seriously," Robin Beeck said. "When we first started filming years ago the townspeople were really afraid and kind of angry. But during the years of court battles to keep him above ground, Grandpa became a folk hero." Now Nederland holds FROZEN DEAD GUY DAYS every March. The festival includes a Grandpa lookalike ...

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Taglines:

Frozen Solid in a bizarre cryonics experiment, Bredo Morstoel now haunts the Rockies

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Genres:

Documentary

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

24 May 2003 (USA)

Filming Locations:

Nederland, Colorado, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$10,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Robin Beeck Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

60 min

Color:

Color

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