| Director | Dan Kwan, Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert |
|---|---|
| Budget | $3 million |
| Box office | $5.8 million |
Hank Thompson is stranded on an island and nearly hangs himself, but sees a body wash up on the beach. He tries to resuscitate it, but the corpse just replies with incessant flatulence. As the tide begins to wash the corpse away, Hank watches as its flatulence propels the corpse around on the surface of the water. Hank ties a rope around the corpse's mouth and mounts him to ride it across the ocean, landing on a mainland shore but still far from civilization. That night, the two of them hide in a cave from a rainstorm, and after the runoff pours into the corpse's mouth, Hank realizes the next morning that the corpse can be a seemingly infinite source of drinkable water. The corpse also begins a slow transition into speaking and acquires a grasp of the English language, adopting the name Manny. Hank and Manny continue their quest, using Manny's erections (fueled by a swimsuit magazine they find) as a compass. Manny has forgotten everything about his former life, and Hank tries to teach him various concepts about life, but Manny's childlike and shameless interpretations of these concepts conflict with what Hank considers socially acceptable behavior. Hank also confesses his traumas stemming from the early death of his mother, and his poor social relationship with his father.
Hank eventually learns how to use Manny's body in various practical ways to facilitate traversing the hostile environment. Over the course of their journey, Hank teaches Manny the joys of dining out, going to movies, and partying, using crudely constructed props and sets made from plants and garbage. Using these, Hank leads Manny to believe that Manny is in love with a woman named Sarah, who rides the bus alone every day. Manny falls in love with Sarah, and this love motivates him to find civilization with Hank. In reality, Hank is very much in love with Sarah, having seen her riding the bus every day but never talking to her due to his own shyness. He has a photo of her that he took secretly while on the bus set as the wallpaper on his phone and follows her on social media. As he looks through her social media profile photos, it is revealed that Sarah is happily married and has a child.
Hank impersonates Sarah to help Manny learn how to talk to women, but they end up having a connection, eventually sharing a kiss. They have a falling out after Hank reveals that Manny never knew Sarah during his life. Feeling betrayed over Hank's hypocrisy and self-restraint, Manny states he wishes to be fully dead again. Hank experiences strange mental flashes of surreal images recalling his journey and suggests that one of Manny's powers is to affect his mind. Despite the tension between them, when Hank is attacked by a bear, Manny moves under his own power for the first time, crawling after his injured friend and igniting one of his farts from their campfire to scare the bear away. Hank loses consciousness and wakes up to Manny carrying him to Sarah's house, despite Hank's protests.
While Sarah is in the house, Manny talks to Sarah's daughter, Crissie. Expecting her to be impressed, he demonstrates several of his powers, inadvertently frightening her with his compass-erection, which Hank quickly slaps down. Sarah is alerted by her daughter's crying and calls the police at the sight of Hank and Manny's once-again inanimate corpse. The first responders soon patch up Hank but call him Manny. They find Hank's phone on Manny's body, find Hank's father's phone number in the phone, and summon him to identify the body. When his father arrives, Hank hides behind the ambulance. Hank's father can't bring himself to open the body bag. The cops discover the photos of Sarah on his phone and ask Sarah about it, who claims not to know either Hank or Manny. During a local television news interview at the site, Hank deliriously professes on air his gratitude for Manny and his magical powers and runs away with Manny's body. Hank's pursuers discover the structures he built. The police, Sarah, her husband, her daughter, a reporter, a camera man, and Hank's father all follow him to the beach. Cornered, Hank lets out a long fart, and the police arrest him. Manny then begins to fart violently. To everyone's shock, horror, and in Crissie and Hank's father's case, amusement, Manny floats back into the ocean and skims quickly away, propelled by his own flatulence, as he and Hank share one last smile.