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In 1994, failed comedian and aspiring screenwriter Alex March dreams of writing something meaningful before giving up on Hollywood. While flipping through a Weekly World News tabloid at a Los Angeles grocery store, he's struck by a headline about a teen girl giving birth in a gas-station bathroom. The story inspires him to write Senior Year, a bleak drama about faith, shame, and justice. When slick talent-agent Wilson Coolidge drunkenly hears March's pitch in a bar, he seizes on it. Despite his enthusiasm, the political, bleak nature of Senior Year makes it unsellable, leading Coolidge to produce the movie himself. To fund the project, he turns to dentists, lawyers, and anyone with disposable income, even if obtained through questionable means, twisting the script at every step to make it more ""commercial."" At Coolidge's urging, Senior Year morphs into Toilet Baby, a lurid horror movie about a demonic infant, complete with sex scenes and exploitation trappings. The finished film, directed by a volatile newcomer and shot in a single chaotic month, is an incoherent disaster. Released in 1998, it dies a quick death at the box office and disappears immediately. Somehow, though, Toilet Baby finds new life on late-night cable and in VHS bargain bins, where college students and cinephiles adopt it as an ironic cult classic. Told as a faux oral history through interviews, transcripts, and recollections, Toilet Baby: The Book reconstructs the movie's creation and improbable resurrection. Beneath the absurdity lies a story about ego, failure, and how Hollywood's worst ideas can endure simply because someone, somewhere, keeps insisting they mattered.

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