Comedy of Terror

Too busy for a cruise, Joe Benton's boss slips the tickets to Joe, who hopes to use the downtime to figure out what to do about his failing marriage. But once the ship sets sail, it becomes the scene of an apparent terrorist attackor maybe an E-coli epidemic caused by inept food handling. Whichever it is, during the ill-fated voyage, Joe falls in love with Melody Goode, high priestess of a northern California religious sect that worships a deity from another galaxy and eagerly anticipates his return to Planet Earth.

So begins a droll satire that takes a bite out of all of America's paranoid fantasies and most sacred cows: military war hawks, the bunglers at the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI, ATF, CIA, and all the other alphabet noodles that foster our fantasies of safety. Shady politicians and the dubious culture that has given rise to New-Age churches and Native American casinos are mercilessly masticated, and not even true love can escape without some teeth marks.