Shawn Nelson and 1 more Rated: NR

Directed by Garrett Scott.

Starring Shawn Nelson.

Review Thoughtful, unpredictable, and gripping...

an engrossing true- life story.

More important, it's a brilliant cultural and political essay, packed with insights into grass-roots attitudes about violence and war.

--Christian Science Monitor[A] terse, scrupulous film, the footage punctuates a bleak tale of a defense-industry town's boom and bust- once a Cold War capital of airplane and missile production, the San Diego suburb has decayed into a strip-mall wasteland...

--The Village VoiceThe film's Chamber of Commerce footage and implicit indictment of American industry's insensitivity to its labor force is reminiscent of Michael Moore's ROGER AND ME...

[CUL DE SAC] provides an often surprising portrait of Nelson and his community, and its most compelling element is the physical presence, testimony, and reactions of Nelson's blue-collar neighbors and acquaintances...

who attribute his death to the government's oppressive attitude towards working-class people and believe that his taking that tank was the act of 'someone finally standing up to the callousness and discompassion of the city.

--Journal of American Culture