I Think We’re Alone Now, a new documentary set to screen at Slamdance 2008 (January 17th-25th in Park City, Utah), examines the sometimes-obsessive relationship between fans and artists. But the two subjects profiled in this film aren’t bonkers for current pop idols like Britney Spears — they still, to this day, worship Eighties teen queen Tiffany. The movie, by first-time feature director Sean Donnelly, hurls you into the worlds of Jeff, an Asperger’s-inflicted fifty-year-old from Santa Cruz, California, and Kelly, a thirty-five-year-old intersex person from Denver, both of whom claim to share a bond with the thirty-six-year-old singer who now records dance music. So why Tiffany? “It’s more about where they were in the lives when they first heard about her,” Donnelly tells Rock Daily, “I don’t think it’s anything special about Tiffany herself.”

The idea for the film was born when Donnelly stumbled upon Jeff (the two live in the same town), and noticed Jeff’s shrine to the pop star on a visit to his new acquaintance’s apartment. Jeff’s fervor for Tiffany was once so severe, the pop star’s aunt filed a restraining order against him until it was ultimately revealed that he was harmless. “Jeff now is in love with Alyssa Milano,” Donnelly says, “because Tiffany is married. Kelly, on the other hand, is really in love with Tiffany, and is hoping that she gets a divorce.”

The delusion still runs deep, as Robert felt that the reason the singer appeared in Playboy in 2004 was because “she dedicated that to me, she wanted to declare our love to each other to everyone.” At the film’s climax, Jeff and Kelly (who meet for the first time) go to Las Vegas to catch a Tiffany performance, as the ultra-competitive Kelly tries to prove she’s the better suitor. While it’s easy to focus on the pair’s troubling obsessions, Donnelly says his project is more of a story about unrequited love. “After you watch the movie, it’s just a story of two people liking somebody that doesn’t like them back, and that’s a universal thing that many people can relate to.” For more information, check out the film’s Web site here.