Heckler (2007)

User Rating:

6.3/10   

Director:

Michael Addis

Genre:

Documentary | Comedy

Tagline:

Everyone's a critic.

Plot:

HECKLER is a comedic feature documentary exploring the increasingly critical world we live in. After starring in a film that was critically bashed...

Cast

Louie Anderson	...	Himself
Criss Angel	...	Himself
Dave Attell	...	Himself
Vince August	...	Himself
Maria Bamford	...	Herself
Fred Belford	...	Himself
Doug Benson	...	Himself
Al Berman	...	Himself
David 'Elsewhere' Bernal	...	Himself
Lewis Black	...	Himself
Uwe Boll	...	Himself (as Dr. Uwe Boll)
John Bowman	...	Himself
Stephen Burrows	...	Himself (as Steve Burrows)
Christa Campbell	...	Herself
Paul Chilsen	...	Himself
Chingy	...	Himself
Andrew Dice Clay	...	Himself (as Andrew 'Dice' Clay)
David Cross	...	Himself
Tommy Davidson	...	Himself
Mike Ditka	...	Himself
Eric Edwards	...	Himself
Robert Englund	...	Himself
Jim Everett	...	Himself (archive footage)
Devin Faraci	...	Himself
Craig Ferguson	...	Himself
Adam Ferrara	...	Himself
Carrie Fisher	...	Herself
Greg Fitzsimmons	...	Himself
Larry Flynt	...	Himself
Pablo Francisco	...	Himself
Judah Friedlander	...	Himself
Billy Gardell	...	Himself
David Garrett	...	Himself
Todd Glass	...	Himself
Gilbert Gottfried	...	Himself
Tom Green	...	Himself
David Alan Grier	...	Himself
Kathy Griffin	...	Herself
Peter Grumbine	...	Himself
Peter Guber	...	Himself
Arsenio Hall	...	Himself
Bill Hicks	...	Himself (archive footage)
Paris Hilton	...	Herself (archive footage)
Perez Hilton	...	Himself
Christopher Hitchens	...	Himself
James Inman	...	Himself (archive footage)
Dom Irrera	...	Himself
Ron Jeremy	...	Himself
Robert Kelly	...	Himself
Jamie Kennedy	...	Himself
Jewel Kilcher	...	Herself (as Jewel)
Andy Kindler	...	Himself
Jen Kober	...	Herself (archive footage)
Richard Kyanka	...	Himself
Dean Larit	...	Himself
Bobby Lee	...	Himself
Tom Leykis	...	Himself
Jon Lovitz	...	Himself
George Lucas	...	Himself
Rod Lurie	...	Himself
Bill Maher	...	Himself
Leonard Maltin	...	Himself
Howie Mandel	...	Himself
Nicole Mandich	...	Herself
Joe Mantegna	...	Himself
Jamie Masada	...	Himself
Craig Mazin	...	Himself
Rob McKittrick	...	Himself
Andy Milonakis	...	Himself
Chance Minter	...	Himself
Eugene Mirman	...	Himself
Patton Oswalt	...	Himself
Rick Overton	...	Himself
Russell Peters	...	Himself
Drew Pinsky	...	Himself (as Dr. Drew Pinsky)
Dennis Prager	...	Himself
Ronald Reagan	...	Himself (archive footage)
Simon Rex	...	Himself
John Ridley	...	Himself
Paul Rodriguez	...	Himself
Richard Roeper	...	Himself
Joe Rogan	...	Himself
Jim Rome	...	Himself (archive footage)
Roseanne	...	Herself (as Roseanne Barr)
Jeffrey Ross	...	Himself (as Jeff Ross)
Eli Roth	...	Himself
Deep Roy	...	Himself
John Salley	...	Himself
Julian Schnabel	...	Himself (archive footage)
Flip Schultz	...	Himself
Joel Schumacher	...	Himself
Pauly Shore	...	Himself
Bobby Slayton	...	Himself
Jeffrey Sneider	...	Himself (as Jeff Sneider)
John Stockwell	...	Himself
Barbra Streisand	...	Herself (archive footage)
Nick Swardson	...	Himself
Scott 'Carrot Top' Thompson	...	Himself (as Carrot Top)
Paul F. Tompkins	...	Himself
Daniel Tosh	...	Himself
Danny Trejo	...	Himself
The Used	...	Themselves
Jody Vaclav	...	Herself
David Wain	...	Himself
George Wallace	...	Himself
Sheila Wenz	...	Herself
Mike White	...	Himself
Harland Williams	...	Himself
Henry Winkler	...	Himself
Mark Young	...	Himself (as Dr. Mark Young)
Sean Young	...	Herself
Rob Zombie	...	Himself

MPAA:

Rated R for pervasive language including sexual references, and for brief nudity.

Runtime:

80 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

USA:R | Australia:MA | UK:18

Company:

Jizzy Entertainment

Movie Connections:

Features "Today" (1952)

Soundtrack:

All You Need Is Hate

Do what you love and what you are proud of and you are bulletproof.

This documentary could not have predicted the teabagger mobs that are currently appearing at town hall meetings and heckling the speakers, but it did show a clip of Ronald Reagan getting heckled to the point that he said, "Oh, shut up!" Of course, Barbra Streisand was a little tougher saying, "Shut the f*ck up!" Comedians, actors, directors, sports stars, anyone who entertains is subject to heckling. This film shows many of them responding to heckling that they have experienced, and there are also some actual clips where comedians, like Reagan, get heckled.

Bill Maher actual got up and threw a heckler out of the studio himself.

The film abruptly turned from heckling to critics, as if they are one and the same. I really didn't like that, but hung in there to see Nicole Mandich's breasts - totally unexpected.

The funnest part was seeing Uwe Boll pummel several critics in the boxing ring.

It was an interesting look at what artists have to suffer for their art.