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United States
2009
86 Min
Color
1.85:1
English
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Christofer Pierson
26Nov11
I can't give this film a measly three stars. Maybe not a masterpiece, but It's not a middling film. This is a film about the meaning of life for a nobody from Staten Island. You rarely see ugliness and smallness depicted with such magnificent beauty. (Look at Marcia Jean Kurtz close-ups for example--almost like Vermeer paintings, so beautiful.)
Posterocalypse
14Feb11
Pretty good! Kind of funny / very sad. Great performances all around. There were a few scenes that really showed the shoestring budget, but all-in-all a great success. One of the few films I've seen recently that featured a real phone number (no 555!).
Michael Gildea
4Jan11
A mess that didn't know what it wanted to be, unable to decide between a King of Comedy ripoff or a Taxi Driver ripoff. The black comedy moments that managed to drip out (the 50 Cent cake) were funny but mostly I felt like I was in a room where two people were calling my name at the same time. And I wanted to slap them both...
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By Joshua Dysart on January 26, 2010
Loved it. Patton Oswalt’s first scene with Michael Rapaport is charged with insane tension. The two actors are like bare wires sparking against each other. Really great stuff. I also thought Siegel’s… read review
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