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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 25 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 12, 2008
- Originally Released: 2001
- Label: Allumination
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jerry Stiller & Janeane Garofalo | |
Performer: | Ben Stiller, Andy Dick, Ethan Embry, Billy Burke, Jonathan Katz, Fred Dryer, Anne Meara & Max Perlich | |
Featured: | Roger Corman, Nick Cassavetes, Ron Howard, Fred Williamson, Peter Bogdanovich, Ted Demme & Karen Black | |
Directed by | Stephen Kessler | |
Screenwriting by | Mike Wilkins & Stephen Kessler | |
Composition by | Ben Vaughn | |
Produced by | Mike Wilkins |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2/4 --
When it's trying to be a more conventional comedy, it's mostly pretty bad.
Chicago Tribune
Garofalo, wary but indulgent as the director's estranged daughter, has great comic rapport with Stiller.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Stiller should get an Oscar for his performance as Fineman and that's no joke. This is a role of a lifetime and Stiller relishes the opportunity.
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KPBS.org
Rating: 4/5 --
Now this is what I'm talking about right here. We need more films like THIS!
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Film Threat
Rating: B- --
A mockumentary that is as endearing as it is silly.
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Dallas Morning News
Rating: 3/5 --
Hollywood loves to satirize itself, wanting to reassure us it doesn't take itself too seriously. The Independent is worlds away from The Player (1992), but it's still one joke hammered over and over, hitting more often than missing.
Des Moines Register
Rating: 3/4 --
Good but not great.
Seattle Times
Product Description:
Morty Fineman (Jerry Stiller) is an independent schlock film producer-star-director with a problem. He's broke, and he can't finance his new film about a singing serial killer. The bank offers to buy his film library (a whopping 427 films!) but they're only willing to pay him $8 a pound. "We've weighed them," the bankers tell him, "and it's an impressive body of work." Fineman enlists the aid of his estranged daughter, Pamona (Janeane Garofalo) and his long-time assistant Ivan (Max Perlich). They try to rekindle interest in his films by getting Fineman a retrospective at the High Desert Film Festival in the remote town of Chaparral, Nevada, a haven for legal prostitution. Stephen Kessler co-wrote and directed THE INDEPENDENT, a hilarious but affectionate homage to B-movie visionaries like Roger Corman, Russ Meyer, and Herschell Gordon Lewis. The consistently funny film includes appearances by Ben Stiller, Andy Dick, Jonathan Katz, porn star Ginger Lynn Allen, and rock legend John Lydon. There are also cameos by Hollywood luminaries like Ron Howard and Peter Bogdanovich (who sing Morty's praises), but the comedic highlights are the clips of Fineman's hysterically awful films, including such wonders as "The Foxy Chocolate Robot" and "Bald Justice."
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- Sales Rank: 47,687
- UPC: 783722274422
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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