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Overview

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Director:
Todd Solondz
Writer (WGA):
Todd Solondz (written by)
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Release Date:
8 November 2001 (Russia) more
Genre:
Comedy | Drama more
Plot:
College and high school serve as the backdrop for two stories about dysfunction and personal turmoil. full summary | full synopsis
NewsDesk:
(12 articles)
Hey NBC : It’s Story, Stupid
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Toronto Mini: 'Life During Wartime' treads familiar ground
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Accurate and scathing attack on various forms of political correctness more (125 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Selma Blair ... Vi ('Fiction')
Leo Fitzpatrick ... Marcus ('Fiction')

Robert Wisdom ... Mr. Scott ('Fiction')

Maria Thayer ... Amy ('Fiction')

Angela Goethals ... Elli ('Fiction')
Devorah Rose ... Lucy ('Fiction')
Nancy Anne Ridder ... Joyce ('Fiction')

Steve Rosen ... Ethan ('Fiction') (as Steven Rosen)

Aleksa Palladino ... Catherine ('Fiction')

Mary Lynn Rajskub ... Melinda ('Fiction')
Tina Holmes ... Sue ('Fiction')

Paul Giamatti ... Toby Oxman ('Non-fiction')
Mike Schank ... Mike the Cameraman ('Non-fiction')

Xander Berkeley ... Mr. DeMarco ('Non-fiction')
Mark Webber ... Scooby Livingston ('Non-fiction')
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Story Telling (USA) (trailer title)
Untitled Todd Solondz Project (USA) (working title)
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MPAA:
Rated R for strong sexual content, language and some drug use.
Runtime:
87 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English | Spanish
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Toby Oxman has a poster of the movie Festen (1998). more
Goofs:
Continuity: The positions of Scooby's hands when he is holding the gun change between shots. more
Quotes:
Mikey Livingston: Wasn't there high school in El Salvador?
Consuelo: We had to work. My family was poor.
Mikey Livingston: It must have been hard being poor.
Consuelo: I am still poor.
Mikey Livingston: But Consuelo... even though you're poor, don't you have any hobbies or interests or anything?
Consuelo: No, Mikey.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Saturday Night Live: Christopher Walken/Weezer (#26.20)" (2001) more
Soundtrack:
Scooby Driver more

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35 out of 41 people found the following comment useful.
Accurate and scathing attack on various forms of political correctness, 27 August 2001
8/10
Author: Chris Docker (eyeforfilm) from Scotland, United Kingdom

Probably Director Todd Solondz' most mature work to date, Storytelling is split into two parts `Fiction' and `Non-Fiction' - yet similar themes underlie both and pose questions about what we call reality when it comes to prejudice and taboo subjects. Whilst in previous attempts (such as `Happiness') Solondz' work has merely been controversial, in this film he berates political correctness more accurately and more entertainingly. It exposes ridiculous attitudes in the name of political correctness, whether it is the student with an awful essay who almost escapes criticism because he has cerebral palsy, or a black teacher who gets away with being a pervert because his victim doesn't want to entertain thoughts of racism. Nothing is sacred: Jews and the Holocaust also come in for merciless examination. But part of the film involves the story of a `documentary' being made within the main story, by an exploitative screwed up filmmaker who wants to do his own thing in the name of art, so in this sense, Storytelling even turns on itself and questions the validity of using the subject matter that it does. A controversial, worthy, and very entertaining film that stretches your ability to make moral judgements within a convincingly coherent framework.

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