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User Rating:
4.6/10   163 votes
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Director:
Evan Oppenheimer
Writer:
Evan Oppenheimer (written by)
Contact:
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Genre:
Comedy more
Tagline:
They all wanted final cut -- until they got it
Plot:
At an absurdly self-indulgent student film festival, the directors of the (mostly terrible) short films start getting killed off one by one and a budding British documentary filmmaker decides to investigate. | add synopsis
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Awards:
1 win more
NewsDesk:
TV's Best of the Decade: No. 23 -- 'Dexter'
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User Reviews:
Quite clever and enjoyable more (8 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Alan Cox ... George Sand
Sean Gunn ... Tori York

Daniel Cantor ... Elliot Lewis

Armin Shimerman ... Detective Blank

Dana Lee ... Arthur Wong
Garrett Wang ... Mike Wong / God

Natasha Lyonne ... Rosemary Olson - Finalist

Angeline Ball ... Carmela Cicero Maresca - Finalist

Rachel True ... Sasha Swann - Finalist
Jit Sarkar ... Asmali Jawad - Finalist

Michael Benyaer ... Spike Levy - Finalist

J.P. Manoux ... The Unknown Filmmaker / Mike Dong
Ana María Caso ... Maria Hernandez

Alain Benatar ... William Butler
Luigi Amodeo ... Paradiso Marcopoli
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Additional Details

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Runtime:
77 min | Argentina:79 min (Mar del Plata Film Festival)
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Dolby
Certification:
Argentina:13
Company:
Theoretical Films more

Fun Stuff

Quotes:
Detective Blank: Stop calling me elephant! more
Movie Connections:
Spoofs Det sjunde inseglet (1957) more

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1 out of 1 people found the following review useful.
Quite clever and enjoyable, 4 June 2002
10/10
Author: wodehousefan from London, England

Well, I certainly had a good laugh -- actually, many good laughs -- while watching this film. Quite clever stuff, and a delightful savaging of the pretensions of student and "indie" filmmakers.

Especially enjoyed the exploits of The Unknown Filmmaker -- perhaps, following in the footsteps of the protagonist here (the delightfully-named George Sand) I'll do my own documentary, "In Search of The Unknown Filmmaker"!

A rousing cheer for this film, what what!

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