Release Date: 02/12/2008
Label/Distributor: Allumination
Rating: R (Restricted)
Retail Price: $14.98
Genre: Comedy Cast: Ginger Lynn Allen, Nick Cassavetes, Fred Dryer, Jonathan Katz, Anne Meara
Running Time: 85
DVD Video Options: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video
DVD Audio Options: Spanish, Subtitled; English, Original Language
UPC Code: 783722274422
The Independent
By Ed Grant -- Video Business, 1/28/2008
ALLUMINATIONStreet: Feb. 12
Prebook: now
> Jerry Stiller scores as an exploitation director.
The Independent is an amiable, sporadically funny spoof of the exploitation business, in the form of a mockumentary about Z-budget moviemaker Morty Fineman (Jerry Stiller). The snippets of his pictures are amusing riffs on genre movies past and present, but the frame device, about Morty and his daughter (Janeane Garofalo) struggling to raise cash in the present-day, is hit and miss. The strongest aspect of Independent is its casting, as Stiller works wonders with middling material.
Shelf Talk: Diehard fans of classic drive-in exploitation comprise the film’s target audience, but Stiller’s popularity on The King of Queens will bring in a whole other contingent for whom the name “Roger Corman” doesn’t mean much. Shelve this one with your Christopher Guest mockumentaries.
Comedy, color, R (mature themes, violence, language), 85 min., DVD $14.98Extras: director/cast commentary, deleted scenes, Nancy Sinatra recording of title song
Director: Stephen Kessler
First Run: L, May 2002, <$1 mil.
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