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Ben Stiller,
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David Veloz,
David Veloz
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: Live/Artisan
: Drama
: 88 min.
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David Veloz made his directorial debut with this drama adapted from the autobiography of comedy writer Jerry Stahl (Ben Stiller), whose $6000-a-week heroin habit had him taking his infant daughter along on his drug runs and doing smack during TV script conferences. Departing detox, Stahl explores memories with survivor Kitty (Maria Bello), who listens patiently to Stahl's flashback. Other women in Stahl's life are his British wife Sandra (Elizabeth Hurley) and his agent Vola (Lourdes Benedicto). For the TV series "Mr. Chompers" (inspired by ALF), Stahl meets with sitcom exec Craig Ziffer (Fred Willard) and puppeteer Allen (Charles Fleischer). For freaky freebasing, Stahl hangs with mumbler Nicky (Owen Wilson) and druggie Gus (Peter Greene). Stahl himself can be seen in a cameo as the methadone clinic doctor. Shown at the 1998 Toronto Film Festival. ~ Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide
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| Wow. Ben Stiller NOT playing Ben Stiller?!
by monstress
July 8, 2005 - 5:00 PM PDT
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2 out of 4 members found this review helpful
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| This is not a good movie for a few reasons: 1, Stiller is in no way an actor who can pull off the casual look of incessant dread of a junkie, nor the depth of feeling of a recovering, rather broken man. 2, the script was rather needlessly thin, given the material they were starting from. 3, the whole movie was forced and posey, probably because it was a first film for the director. Alas. Read the autobiography by Stahl instead--it is pretty dark and funny. |
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