Award season is upon us.  And since becoming an UNREAL American, it seems only appropriate to establish UNREAL events, the first being the UNREAL academy awards on February 26th.  Although the final nominations will not be released until tomorrow morning, a number of 2016 films are considered to be the front runners.  Here are just a few.  (NOTE:  Thanks to IMDB and WikiPedia for the synopses of these titles on which some of the parodies are based.)

FAVORITES

Arrival (Paramont Pictures)

When mysterious visitors begin to gather in the nation’s capital on January 20, 2017, Washington area real estate agent Louise Banks is tasked with interpreting the language they use as the visitors attempt to establish permanent residence in the federal enclave.

Fences (Paramount Pictures)

Interim House Budget Committee Chair Diane Black (R-Tenn) informs president-elect Trump building a wall to keep out Hispanic immigrants is financially unfeasible.  She suggests he build a more modest barrier at a fraction of the cost.  Tom Sawyer Enterprises submits a bid for a four foot high picket fence which includes whitewashing.

Hidden Figures (Fox 2000 Pictures)

The story of African-American mathematician Katherine Johnson and her two colleagues, who, while working in the segregated Urban Area Computers division of the Trump Campaign, calculated the consequences of the GOP nominee not releasing his tax returns.  Using their calculations, Donald Trump is able to avoid revealing multiple conflicts of interest and changes his campaign slogan from “Make America Great Again” to “What Me Worry!”

La La Land (Summit Entertainment)

An American romantic musical comedy-drama in which 8,753,788 Californians sing and dance their way through the 2016 presidential election believing they can make a difference by voting for Hillary Clinton.  As is true with much that happens in Hollywood, this is only an illusion.

Zootopia (Walt Disney Pictures)

Animated film in which a female rabbit Judy Hopps (voiced by Hillary Clinton) believes she can become the first Lapine president. Despite serving as first bunny, senator and secretary of state, Judy’s aspirations are snuffed out by Chief Bogo (Donald Trump), who doubts her potential because rabbits are frail and emotional.  She is hustled by Nick Wilde (Steve Bannon) and Finnick (Kellyanne Conway) a con artist duo of FOXes.

HONORABLE MENTION

Hell or High Water (CBS Films)/Following U.S. withdrawal from the Paris climate accords, Mar-a-Lago is inundated by rising sea levels.

Florence Foster Jenkins (Paramount Pictures)/In a gender reversal remake (ala Ghostbusters 2016) of the election, a wannabe presidential candidate takes center stage when family and friends convince her she is the real deal.

Nocturnal Animals (Focus Features)/A cult of 3:00 am tweeters discover a new role model.

Silence (Paramount Pictures)/Promises by the president-elect to hold press conferences to discuss how he plans to extricate himself from his business and his view of Russian intervention in the 2016 election vanish into the ether.

That’s it from UNREAL central for now.  Stay tuned for more UNREAL events throughout the year.

For what it’s worth.
Dr. ESP