Storytelling
starring: James Van Der Beek, Selma Blair, Leo Fitzpatrick, Robert Wisdom, Maria Thayer
directed by: Todd Solondz
directed by: Todd Solondz
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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780780638501
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0780638506
Label: New Line Home Video
Manufacturer: New Line Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: New Line Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 16, 2002
Running Time: 87 minutes
Sales Rank: 15323
Studio: New Line Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2001
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Description:
From Todd Solondz, the critically acclaimed director of Welcome to the Dollhouse comes a film comprised of two separate stories set against the sadly comical terrain of college and high school, past and present. Following the paths of its young hopeful/troubled characters, it explores issues of sex, race, celebrity and exploitation.
Amazon.com:
Todd Solondz, director of the acclaimed Welcome to the Dollhouse and the controversial Happiness, continues pushing the envelope of social decorum with the merciless and casually cruel Storytelling, his most ruthless satire of suburban complacency. Broken into two unrelated chapters, 'Fiction' follows college girl Selma Blair through a degrading encounter with her resentful writing teacher (Robert Wisdom), while the more sprawling and scattershot 'Non-Fiction' circles around the mutual exploitation of a fumbling documentary filmmaker (Paul Giamatti doing a near-parody of director Solondz) and his clueless subject, a suburban high school slacker named Scooby (Mark Webber). The squirmy laughs are laced with humiliation and the satire is acidic and cynical; in the world of Solondz, victims and victimizers alike are petty, selfish, vindictive, and thoughtless, and empathy is strictly rationed. Though sharply written and well directed, this misanthropic vision is strictly for daring filmgoers and Solondz fans. --Sean Axmaker
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- This movie Stinks!Don't even waste your time!! The movie made NO sense what-so-ever to me!! Its a dark comedy....do ... Read More
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- ...storytellingWell. Not a film that I would recommend to anyone except serious film buffs who can stomach some pretty ... Read More
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- Trite stories told badlyThe purpose of this review is to save someone 87 minutes of life. Spend that time elsewhere than with ... Read More
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- Everyone always has a story to tell.Todd Solondz's `Welcome to the Dollhouse' showed comic/absurd promise; his masturbation scene in `Happiness' ... Read More
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- Different and disturbingStorytelling is another highly enjoyable, if typically disturbing work from the New York director Todd Solondz. ... Read More
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