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Overview
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Release Date:
30 October 2008 (Australia)
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Tagline:
From the author of Fight Club
Plot:
A sex-addicted con-man pays for his mother's hospital bills by playing on the sympathies of those who rescue him from choking to death. full summary | full synopsis
Plot Keywords:
Restaurant
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Scam
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Theme Park
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Choking
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Choke
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Awards:
1 win
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4 nominations
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NewsDesk:
(143 articles)
Fight Club Pummels Its Way to Bluray
(From Atomic Popcorn. 1 September 2009, 6:22 AM, PDT)
[Giveaway] - New giveaway, "It's Alive" DVDs to win !
(From OhMyGore. 24 August 2009, 9:42 AM, PDT)
(From Atomic Popcorn. 1 September 2009, 6:22 AM, PDT)
[Giveaway] - New giveaway, "It's Alive" DVDs to win !
(From OhMyGore. 24 August 2009, 9:42 AM, PDT)
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Raunchly Amusing Dark Comedy
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Kathryn Alexander | ... | Mousy Girl / Agnes |
| Teodorina Bello | ... | Jamaican Lady |
 | Kate Blumberg | ... | Edwin's Wife |
| Jonah Bobo | ... | Young Victor |
| Willi Burke | ... | Deranged Socialite (as Wilma 'Willi' Burke) |
| Heather Burns | ... | Internet Date / Gwen |
 | David Wolos-Fonteno | ... | Edwin (as David Fonteno) |
 | Matt Gerald | ... | Detective Ryan |
 | Clark Gregg | ... | Lord High Charlie |
| Joel Grey | ... | Phil |
 | Viola Harris | ... | Eva Muller |
 | Brad William Henke | ... | Denny |
 | Paz de la Huerta | ... | Nico (as Paz De La Huerta) |
| Michelle Hurst | ... | Shapely Nurse |
 | Anjelica Huston | ... | Ida J. Mancini |
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MPAA:
Rated R for strong sexual content, nudity and language.
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Runtime:
92 min
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Color:
Color (DeLuxe)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
USA:R (certificate #44083) |
UK:18 |
Ireland:16 |
New Zealand:R18 |
Singapore:R21 |
Canada:18A (British Columbia) (Canadian Home Video rating) |
Brazil:18 |
Australia:R |
Portugal:M/16 |
Argentina:18 |
South Korea:18 |
Finland:K-15 |
Germany:16 |
France:U (with warning) |
Australia:MA (Cable TV rating)
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Cameo: [Chuck Palahniuk]the author of the book, is the man sitting next to Victor on the plane at the end of the movie.
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Continuity: In the scene where Victor played the rapist to a woman's fantasy of rape. In the first angle, the frustrated woman grabbed Victor's hand, which was holding the knife, so that it would be placed at her neck, then proceeded to use the vibrator on herself. Then when Victor says, "Whoa, whoa, whoa, what about me?" the angle changed and focused on the woman, in which Victor's hand and the knife weren't anywhere to be seen. In the next shot, Victor had his hand and knife at her neck again.
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Quotes:
Victor Mancini:
I wish I could say I left the circuit completely behind me, but that wouldn't be entirely true.
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Movie Connections:
References Groundhog Day (1993)
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Soundtrack:
Mellow Samba
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A Note Regarding SpoilersHow much sex, violence, and profanity are in this movie?
What songs play in the trailer?
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The trailer for this movie looked promising, even though the reviews were mixed. I liked Sam Rockwell in 'Matchstick Men' and 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind', so I thought I'd take a chance & check this out.
The plot of the movie is Vic (Sam Rockwell) is a sexually obsessed colonial era theme park employee and part-time con man, who is supporting his invalid mother (Anjelica Houston), who resides in a nursing home, which costs $3000 per month.
The film is a series of vignettes, with the central themes being Vic's childhood, his mentally ill mom, his descent into sexual addiction, his relationship with his best friend Denny (excellently portrayed by Brad Henke) and his group therapy sessions with other sex addicts.
Vic re-counts his upbringing with his mom, which was chaotic, because his mom was basically nuts. Vince never knew his father, & much of the movie (when we aren't subjected to Vince's actual and imagined sexual encounters), is in trying to figure out who his father was. At one point, Vic was lead to believe his mom had been artificially inseminated with semen derived from the DNA of Jesus Christ. Needless to say, this generated a lot of funny bits.
At the nursing home where his mother lives, Vince befriends Dr. Paige Marshall (Kelly Macdonald), who also happens to be very close to Vince's mom. This is a key relationship in the film, & figures prominently in the film's conclusion. I won't spoil the ending further, but it was a good one.
This was a very good film, well written & acted.