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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 36 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: October 28, 2003
- Originally Released: 1996
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Betsy Brantley | |
Performer: | Steven Soderbergh & David Jensen | |
Directed by | Steven Soderbergh | |
Edited by | Sarah Flack | |
Screenwriting by | Steven Soderbergh | |
Produced by | John Hardy |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/4 --
It's fresh, unexpected and goofy. It's not a smart career move, just a film that its director wanted to make for some crazy reason, and he made it.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Rating: C+ --
Though funny and observant at times, it still comes across as a strained juvenile guerilla movie whose bizarre antics never caught fire.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Rating: 66/100 --
Taken as a whole, the film fails to maintain the consistent absurd tone it is aiming for.
Apollo Guide
Rating: 2/5 --
Schizopolis represents a minor act of self-indulgence on the part of the sometimes eccentric Steven Soderbergh but results in major tedium for the viewer.
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Los Angeles Times
Rating: 2.5/5 --
Schizopolis is Steven Soderbergh's berserk and uneven attempt to mimic Bunuel's Un Chien Andalou; he wants to provoke reaction but he's not quite sure how to go about it.
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Boxoffice Magazine
At once an astute study of the banality of modern life and a banal student film wrapped around a series of inside jokes.
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Cinemania
Rating: B --
Schizopolis is by no means an epochal event, but it's clever and offbeat, well worth appreciating on its own proper terms.
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Product Description:
Marking a return to the low-budget territory that launched his career in 1989 (with SEX, LIES, AND VIDEOTAPE), Steven Soderbergh pulls together this freewheeling comedy that is stuffed with an onslaught of visual and verbal puns. Soderbergh plays dual roles as Fletcher Munson and Dr. Jeffrey Korchek. Munson is a nerdy copywriter who finds himself under an extreme amount of pressure when his boss dies, leaving him to write the upcoming speech for T. Azimuth Schwitters, a revered spiritual leader. Korchek is a dentist who begins to have an affair with Munson's wife but finds himself in trouble when he falls for a new patient. Also thrown into the mix is Elmo Oxygen (David Jensen), an orange-jumpsuit-wearing exterminator who spends more time sleeping with his clients than doing actual work. By the time the moment comes for Schwitters to give his speech, the life of each character has been turned completely upside down. Soderbergh mocks, satirizes, and criticizes the late 20th century's hurried, soulless atmosphere, including religion, marriage, the media, the workplace, and male-female sexual relations. This fresh blend of lighthearted comedy and crackling dialogue makes SCHIZOPOLIS an exhilarating romp that recalls the early comedies of Richard Lester.
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