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Mood:
- HumorousOffbeatWitty
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Plot:
- Serial KillerNothing Goes RightParents and ChildrenMedia SatireFilmmakingArtists and ShowbizDisorderShowbiz more...
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Genres:
- ComedyMockumentaryParody
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Time/Period:
- 60s
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Humor:
- Dark Humor
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Style:
- Film in Film
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Attitudes:
- Not SeriousRealistic
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The Independent, 2000
English
USA
Profile of The Independent
The mood of The Independent is humorous, offbeat, and witty. The plot centers around media satire, filmmaking, and a situation where nothing goes right. It features dark humor. The Independent is a comedy and parody movie. Stylistically, it is a mockumentary and is a film in a film. In approach, it is not serious and realistic. The Independent happens in the 1960s.
Summary of The Independent
Morty Fineman (Jerry Stiller) is an independent schlock film producer-star-director with a problem. He's broke, and he can't finance his new film about a singing serial killer. The bank offers to buy his film library (a whopping 427 films!) but they're only willing to pay him $8 a pound. "We've weighed them," the bankers tell him, "and it's an impressive body of work." Fineman enlists the aid of his estranged daughter, Pamona (Janeane Garofalo) and his long-time assistant Ivan (Max Perlich). They try to rekindle interest in his films by getting Fineman a retrospective at the High Desert Film Festival in the remote town of Chaparral, Nevada, a haven for legal prostitution. Stephen Kessler co-wrote and directed The Independent, a hilarious but affectionate homage to B-movie visionaries like Roger Corman, Russ Meyer, and Herschell Gordon Lewis. The consistently funny film includes appearances by Ben Stiller, Andy Dick, Jonathan Katz, porn star Ginger Lynn Allen, and rock legend John Lydon. There are also cameos by Hollywood luminaries like Ron Howard and Peter Bogdanovich (who sing Morty's praises), but the comedic highlights are the clips of Fineman's hysterically awful films, including such wonders as "The Foxy Chocolate Robot" and "Bald Justice."
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 12 March 2000 |
| Runtime: | 95 min |
Cast and Crew
as Morty Fineman
as Paloma Fineman
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