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`HairKutt` to Screen in Somerville

Curtis Elliott, an independent filmmaker, will tour the Boston area with his `It`s Tough to get Off Drugs` campain November 4th - 10th. This campaign is based on his award winning documentary, `HairKutt`. The film will screen at the Somerville Theatre in Somerville Monday through Friday, 3 P.M. to 1 A.M., Saturday and Sunday 1 P.M. to 1 A.M. In addition, free morning screenings will take place in area school and youth groups.

`HairKutt` is a sixty minute, award winning documentary about four friends from St. Louis, MO who travel to the Smokey Mountains of Tennessee in the hopes of curing one of them from the throes of heroin addiction.
The Real Life story evolves around Bryant `HairKutt` Johnson, a heroin addict of more than 15 years. The documentary takes many twists and turns as `HairKutt` becomes so debilitated from the withdrawal of the poisonous drug that he walks away from the rented cabin used as a drug rehab facility to return to the streets of St. Louis (more than a ten hour drive away) and the source of his addiction.

Coaxed back to the cabin by his friends, `HairKutt` is eventually rushed to a rural Tennessee hospital after severe life-threatening vomiting episodes. Is the hospital trip a death bed for `HairKutt` or a springboard for a new life free from the drug that has dominated his teen and adult years? The story climaxes more than a year and a half later with a tell-all truth about the fateful trip and `HairKutt`s` final condition.

To date, `HairKutt` has been booked to screen at not only Somerville, but the Post Theatre in Salt Lake City October 21st, the Roxy Theatre in LaSalle, Illinois on Sunday, October 23rd, and in select public school districts throughout the country during Red Ribbon Week (October 23rd-31st).