Slice of Life The American Dream. In Former Pizza Huts. Documentary Movie Trailer HD - Plot synopsis: A contemporary portrait of America, told through a collection of stories observed within the walls of former Pizza Hut buildings across the country. These nostalgic spaces hold memories of a bygone era, but through the power of transformation, they provide something new and special for the communities that continue to flow through them.
From an LGBTQ+ church in Florida, to a karaoke bar in Texas, to a cannabis dispensary in rural Colorado, these modern-day portraits are paralleled with the origin story of Pizza Hut - one of America's most iconic brands, and the two brothers who founded the company in Wichita, Kansas in 1958.
From an LGBTQ+ church in Florida, to a karaoke bar in Texas, to a cannabis dispensary in rural Colorado, these modern-day portraits are paralleled with the origin story of Pizza Hut - one of America's most iconic brands, and the two brothers who founded the company in Wichita, Kansas in 1958.
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00:00It's the stained glass windows that draw people and touch people and I think really takes
00:12it out of the realm of a Pizza Hut.
00:14It's the power of transformation.
00:16When things continue to transform, beauty can come from it.
00:20Good things can come out of it.
00:25We bought the Pizza Hut and now we've made it the biggest adult candy store ever.
00:32When you're driving down the road, you see a big green roof and you're in Colorado, well
00:37pretty much two and two means cannabis.
00:39And so now we have our own salad bar with our own type of lettuce, so yeah, it's pretty
00:43nice.
00:48We took everything, 401ks, everything out of the bank and opened up a business that
00:56we had no idea how to run.
00:58It was a big transformation to get it to what it is now.
01:03But those damn windows, Pizza Hut windows.
01:11I'd wanted to start a business on my own since my dad early on had told me, be an entrepreneur
01:19You have your own destiny.
01:20If you succeed, you know you've done it by yourself.
01:25Folks around my age remember going to Pizza Huts as a kid, remember doing the Book It
01:29program, remember the big red plastic cups.
01:32There's a lot of different people with a lot of different backgrounds and yet the memories
01:35all seem very similar.
01:36It almost seems like these could be my memories.
01:39They may not be the most glamorous buildings, like they're not the Guggenheim or anything
01:44like that, but they definitely fill something in our life that we like when we see again.
01:51We feel a warm feeling when we see them again.
01:55This place is a beast, you know, we're doing 250, 300 people in an old Pizza Hut.
02:06One of the generations that struggle is with why we're here.
02:10We didn't choose to come here, but we're here now.
02:15What do we do with the opportunity?
02:21This is a bar in the south and this place breaks that mold in every single way.
02:28To be able to make something fresh and something new out of something that was nostalgic to
02:33people is pretty cool.
02:35I think it's cool when architecture gets saved, even if it is a Pizza Hut.