Synopsis: Desperate for tourism, hundreds of small towns across the U.S.A. claim the “world’s largest” something - from 15-foot fiberglass strawberries to 40-foot concrete pheasants. World’s Largest visits 58 such sites and profiles Soap Lake, Washington’s five-year struggle to build the World’s Largest Lava Lamp. By documenting these roadside attractions, World’s Largest captures the changing, perhaps even vanishing, culture of small-town America. [Synopsis courtesy of SXSW]
Amy C. Elliott and Elizabeth Donius’s “World’s Largest” is a road movie with a big ol’ twist: the co-directors visited 58 of the “world’s largest [insert random object here]” tourist traps that live in small towns throughout the U.S. “Odd, funny and sometimes beautiful, the statues stand as testam...
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