Fletcher Munson, the lethargic employee of a pseudo-religious self help company, and his doppelganger, the friendly but dull dentist Dr. Jeffrey Korchek.
Fletcher Munson is a lethargic, passive worker for a Scientology-like self-help corporation called Eventualism. After the death of a colleague, he is promoted to the job of writing speeches for T. Azimuth Schwitters, the founder and head of the group. He uses this as an excuse to be emotionally and romantically distant from his wife, who, he discovers, is having an affair with his doppelganger, a dentist named Dr. Jeffrey Korchek. As Munson fumbles with the speech and Korchek becomes obsessed with a new patient, a psychotic exterminator named Elmo Oxygen goes around the town seducing lonely wives and taking photographs of his genitals.
Written by Gary Dickerson <slug@mail.utexas.edu>
Steven Soderbergh cast his ex-wife, Betsy Brantley, to play his character's wife. Their two characters were a husband and wife who had drifted apart and could not communicate.
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Goofs
Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers):
The word "circumcised" is misspelled on Elmo's truck.
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Quotes
Elmo Oxygen:
I can make sense out of yesterday. Can you understand the power of that? See more »
Crazy Credits
No fish were harmed during the making of this film.
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