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"Bright and batty … a wildly entertaining piece of animated nonfiction." – Nonfics

In 1918, Kansas businessmen John Romulus Brinkley developed a foolproof cure for impotence: transplant the testicles of a goat onto a human man. When the surgery appeared to be a success, patients lined up around the block in the hopes of receiving similar treatment. But this is just the beginning of Brinkley's story, as his growing media fame gives way to the trappings of an inevitable ambition.

Director Penny Lane tells the extraordinary tale of a madcap medical entrepreneur by way of lively animation. But what begins as a quirky story about old-timey medicine becomes something more profound and sophisticated, as the film digs deep to discover just who Brinkley really was.

"A ridiculously enjoyable gem of a documentary." – The Guardian