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...Alarmist starts as a modified Robin Hood where "the den" is a circa 1954 sushi restaurant, and the merry men have been compressed into several burglar alarm salespeople bent on income redistribution. Anyone familiar with Los Angeles will realize the timeliness of their "rob the rich" scam in which Heinrich Grigoris (Greg Tucci) boosts the sales of his alarms by staging robberies in the neighborhoods of potential clients. The twist in Grigoris' scheme is Tommy, the new salesman played with adorable, bumbling style by David Arquette. A natural at the hook, the Tommy's moral sensibilities are deeply troubled...
...largely unexploited. While Tommy does go door-to-door, the characters he encounters are not archetypal Angelenos, but a stereotypically elderly market. A little closer to the mark and this movie would have many movie-industry types squirming in their seats, but The Alarmist is estranged from the hip alarm-buying populous of aging baby boomers. Gale and her son are a closer approximation; the aesthetic is vaguely right, as is the "advanced" sexual attitude, but they're too down-home to be authentic. As a cultural satire, The Alarmist's humor seems more directed at an outdated Midwest than...
Instead of leaving through the chimney, smoke escaped from the fireplace and set off the fire alarm at approximately...
...have to evacuate every time the alarm goes off," said a spokesperson from the Cambridge Fire Department. "It's not a joke...
...evacuation lasted for about an hour while the smoke cleared and the alarm was turned...