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I'm Jesse Thorn, this is Bullseye.

My guests this week, Chris and Brydie Elliott are father and daughter. Chris is of course

Chris Elliott. The star of the film Cabin Boy, a regular on everybody loves Raymond.

These days, one of the stars on the TV show, Shits SCH ITT S Shits Creek. The man behind

so many memorable late night with David Letterman characters, the man who lives under the

stairs. Chris Elliott Jr., the Morton Downey Jr. parody. And of course, his Marlon Brando

impression in which he, at one point, dressed up as Marlon Brando held a bunch of bananas

and did a weird dance. Sort of a prancy dance for a little while. We'll talk more about

that later when we want to let that slide by us. Brydie, Chris Elliott's daughter, wrote

and directed a new movie called Clara's Ghost, which you can buy and rent now. It's a

family collaboration. Brydie also stars in the movie along with Chris, Brydie's sister

Abby, who you might know from film and television, including Saturday Night Live and her mother

Paula. And in its own way, it is also kind of a horror movie. It's the story of the Reynolds

family who live in a secluded mansion in New England. Chris's character Ted is the patriarch,

a comedian who's passed his brine. His daughter's work in show business too, but like their dad,

their careers aren't exactly sparkly. Then there's Clara, played by Paula Elliott. Clara

is not a criminal. And she also finds herself at the bad end of a lot of jokes without her

family. The movie takes place over one night. Clara has discovered a ghost that only she

can see, and the ghost, at least at first, kind of adopts a life coach role. Like in this

scene from earlier in the movie, the Reynolds family is eating dinner, and Clara just broken

nail. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, God. Oh, wow. Well, it happened. Broken nail. Oh, your pinky nail,

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