Julie Brown's Attack of
the 5'2" Woman consists of two comedy sketches that are
based on the real life events surrounding two sensational news
stories of 1994. One involves the figure skater, Tonya
Harding, and her plot to destroy her Olympic competition,
while the second sketch deals with Lorena Bobbitt, who
amputated her husband's penis in a vengeful rage.
Tonya Harding is
renamed Tonya Hardley in the first sketch based on the Olympic
figure skater's covert attack on her opponent Nancy Kerrigan,
renamed Nancy Cardigan. The sketch, titled "Battle of
Wounded Knee," comically depicts a tacky Tonya plotting
to eliminate her classier competition by breaking Nancy's leg.
Tonya plots with her boyfriend and a buddy of his to hit Nancy
in the leg with a blunt object destroying her hopes of a gold
medal at the Winter Olympics. Of course, as in the real life
drama, the plot is uncovered, Nancy recovers and Tonya becomes
the brunt of jokes, lawsuits and criminal charges.
In the second
sketch, "He Never Gave Me Orgasm: The Lenora Babbitt
Story," Julie Brown enacts her comic version of the
Lorena and John Bobbitt story. The actual story involved
Lorena cutting off her husband's penis in a vengeful rage and
later being aquitted of criminal charges. In the Julie Brown
version, Lenora Babbitt tells her story in flashback. She has
a voracious sexual appetite but can never have an orgasm. She
becomes angry because her husband doesn't have the same
problem. We see her attack him and put his private part into a
sock puppet which she tosses out of a car window. When the
police catch up with her and try to locate the puppet, she
leads them to a vacant lot where they watch a poodle pick up
the sock and run away with it. A detective shoots at the dog
but we only hear the gun shot. In the next scene the detective
is at the hospital holding the unharmed poodle in his arms
waiting to have the dog X-rayed. In the X-ray we see the dog
has eaten the penis and it cannot be saved to be reconnected.
Lenora spies a dead biker in the hospital and his girlfriend
agrees to an organ transplant. However, Lenora's hot temper
cannot be controlled and she lives to strike again.
Animal action is
simple in the film. The dog was prepared by his trainer to
fetch the sock puppet and did so when the trainer gave him
visual and verbal commands.