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DVD Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 26 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 16, 2008
- Originally Released: 2008
- Label: Sony Pictures
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Lisa Kudrow, Christine Taylor & Scott Prendergast | |
Performer: | Conchata Ferrell, Patricia Buckley, Teri Garr, Chris Parnell, Jeffrey Dean Morgan & Angela Sarafyan | |
Directed by | Scott Prendergast | |
Music by | Roddy Bottum | |
Screenwriting by | Scott Prendergast | |
Produced by | Rick Rosenthal, Gary Dean Simpson, Rhoades Rader, Jeff Balis & Doug Sutherland |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: A- --
Prendergast doesn't chase alternative statements, he wants to make people laugh, and Kabluey is one of the more inventive, invigorating productions to come out of the industry's lonely right field.
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BrianOrndorf.com
[With] Prendergasts's melancholic, quirky humor and eye for comically scenic desolation....[Kudrow is] captivating...
Los Angeles Times
Rating: B --
Hey, ever wonder about the secret lives of those guys dancing around in the Subway sandwich outfits in 100-degree summer heat, and all that brought them to that point? Then Kabluey might be for you.
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Shared Darkness
Rating: 3/4 --
While it borrows from obvious sources, Kabluey eventually comes into its own as a wacky commentary on the state of America in the fifth year of the Iraq war.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Rating: 3/4 --
Kabluey nearly implodes in the opening moments but swiftly finds its footing.
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What Would Toto Watch?
Rating: 3/5 --
A dark piece of whimsy that enchants and befuddles in equal measure.
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Los Angeles Times
Rating: B --
In costume and character, Prendergast is a little funny and more than a little sad. So is the film.
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AV Club
Product Description:
Scott Prendergast makes his feature-film debut as an actor, director, and writer with the quirky black comedy KABLUEY. Prendergast stars as Salman, a ne'er-do-well with no money and no place to live. He moves in with his sister-in-law, Leslie (Lisa Kudrow), promising to take care of her kids while she works; her husband (his brother), a member of the National Guard, is still in Iraq, his tour extended yet again. Unfortunately for Salman, his nephews, Lincoln (Landon Henninger) and Cameron (Cameron Wofford), are unholy, unstoppable terrors. Wanting him to get back on his own two feet, Leslie finds Salman a job at her very strange, hilariously absurd company, BlueNexion, where Salman must get inside a big blue costume and hand out flyers in the middle of a nearly deserted highway. But when he finds out a little too much about Leslie, he is put into an awkward situation that he's not sure he can get out of easily. Prendergast excels in the role of sad-sack Salman; whether he's sweating inside his costume, listening to an annoying chatterbox on the bus, or getting dinner ready for the kids, his deadpan, pathetically funny look is reminiscent of Buster Keaton's. Kudrow is in fine form as Leslie, a troubled mother who seems fed up with her life. The strong supporting cast also includes Conchata Ferrell as Salman's perpetually screaming loudmouthed boss, Angela Sarafyan as a weird grocery-store clerk, and Teri Garr as a somewhat deranged woman who lost her savings with BlueNexion and takes it out on the company's big blue mascot. Roddy Bottum's charming score keeps things moving at just the right pace. KABLUEY is a charming, offbeat look at life during wartime in America, seen from a unique perspective.
Description by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment:
In this offbeat, hilarious comedy that proves life can always get a little worse, Lisa Kudrow stars as Leslie, a struggling army wife trying to balance work, two out-of-control kids, and a never-ending pile of bills on her own. At her wit's end, she begrudgingly asks her out-of-work brother-in-law, Salman (Scott Prendergast), to move in and lend a hand until her husband comes home. But if dealing with his two rowdy nephews isn't hard enough, Salman also takes a part-time job as the faceless blue corporate mascot for a dying Internet company. Between the boredom, the sweltering heat of his post, and the unique challenges of his "uniform," life for Salman is a constant struggle to maintain his sanity.
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Product Info
- UPC: 043396257764
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