The Best 'Don't Talk or Text' Movie Theater Short Ever Made

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The Alamo Drafthouse theater in Austin, Texas, is showing a film that packs a wallop, but it's not Kung Fu Panda 2 or X-Men: First Class. It's a PSA warning folks not to talk or text, and it features a profane and entertaining voicemail left by a peeved patron who was kicked out after breaking the rule. Her indignant rant, presented in a short that runs before R-rated flicks, sounds like something David Mamet might write in a bitchy stupor.

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