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Spit it Out
by Jonathan P Skurnik and Jeff Shames
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"Spit It Out is a powerful and poignant revelatory journey into one person's lifelong challenges with stuttering. The film is a significant educating tool because it simultaneously illustrates the highly personal and interpersonal issues associated with stuttering, while delving into stuttering's important scientific and clinical aspects as well. Spit It Out is a perfect film for speech and language pathology students and clinicians as well as for individuals who stutter along with their spouses and families."
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Spit It Out is a funny and poignant portrait of Jeff Shames' successful efforts to come to terms with his stutter and his family's legacy of denial. Jeff's father is intolerant of and rageful towards his son's imperfections, while his mother never discusses her own childhood stutter. As a teenager, Jeff turns to alcohol and drugs to mask his shame, and eventually marries an alcoholic who interacts with the outside world for him. After his wife gets sober, Jeff discovers the stuttering self-help community and embarks on a healing journey of sobriety, self-acceptance and forgiveness. Appropriate for:
55 minutes • VHS
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REVIEWS "SPIT IT OUT is a powerful documentary. I strongly recommend the viewing of this film by stutterers, significant others of stutterers and anyone else interested in the complex challenge of living with stuttering." "It seems Hollywood loves to poke fun at people who stutter. But Jeff Shames isn't laughing - he's fighting back. The 47-year-old stutterer is speaking out loud and clear with a film of his own, a documentary called "Spit It Out." Shames' new film is at times lighthearted, but it casts a bright spotlight on what life can be like for adults who stutter." "SPIT IT OUT is a personal journey, both intimate and universal, into the ways that a family copes with someone who is different. Its very rawness is its power." "I loved every minute of it. SPIT IT OUT is the most real and honest documentary film I have ever seen." "Perhaps it's a good thing to witness someone else's setbacks and their valiant attempts to overcome them. To see another person who stutters in those situations can be instructive, ennobling, embarrassing or cathartic. I guess what I'm trying to say is that people should get hold of the video and watch it. It's not light entertainment. They might see something of themselves on screen and gain insights from it."
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