The Independent (2001)
60 %
Reviews Counted: 47 Fresh: 28 Rotten:19 Average Rating: 6/10
Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins
Theatrical Release: Nov 30, 2001 Limited
Synopsis: 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.... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Jerry Stiller, Janeane Garofalo, Ben Stiller, Andy Dick, Ethan Embry
Director: Stephen Kessler
Screenwriter: Mike Wilkins, Stephen Kessler
Producer: Mike Wilkins
Composer: Ben Vaughn
Screenwriter: Mike Wilkins, Stephen Kessler
Producer: Mike Wilkins
Composer: Ben Vaughn
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07/21/05
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Now this is what I'm talking about right here. We need more films like THIS!
12/08/02
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10/21/02
A lot of fun, thanks in no small part to the wonderfully over the top performance of Jerry Stiller
09/10/02
When it's trying to be a more conventional comedy, it's mostly pretty bad.
07/20/02
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Hollywood loves to satirize itself, wanting to reassure us it doesn’t take itself too seriously. The Independent is worlds away from The Player (1992), but it’s still one joke hammered over and over, hitting more often than missing.
07/05/02
A charming and funny look at the independent filmmaking business and the thin line between a masterpiece and a $9 nap.
06/28/02
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It's cute and amiable, maybe easier to cherish if you don't recall Russ Meyer or Matinee or Ed Wood.
05/03/02
Ranks right up there with Silver, John Waters' Cecil B. Demented and Christopher Guest's The Big Picture as terrific spoofs of the business of moviemaking.
05/02/02
While [Stiller] and everyone else look like they're having a great time working on a shoestring, their movie too often retells the same joke.
04/26/02
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So good-natured, its humor so loopy, and Fineman so charismatic in his crass way, that few film buffs will be able to resist its absurd charms.
04/26/02
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