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Art School Confidential (2006) -- Starting from childhood attempts at illustration, the protagonist pursues his true obsession to art school. But as he learns how the art world really works, he finds that he must adapt his vision to the reality that confronts him.
Art School Confidential (2006) -- Starting from childhood attempts at illustration, the protagonist pursues his true obsession to art school. But as he learns how the art world really works, he finds that he must adapt his vision to the reality that confronts him.
Art School Confidential (2006) -- Starting from childhood attempts at illustration, the protagonist pursues his true obsession to art school. But as he learns how the art world really works, he finds that he must adapt his vision to the reality that confronts him.
Art School Confidential (2006) -- Starting from childhood attempts at illustration, the protagonist pursues his true obsession to art school. But as he learns how the art world really works, he finds that he must adapt his vision to the reality that confronts him.
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Overview

User Rating:
6.3/10   8,922 votes
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Director:
Terry Zwigoff
Writers (WGA):
Daniel Clowes (screenplay)
Daniel Clowes (comic story)
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Release Date:
10 November 2006 (Poland) more
Genre:
Comedy | Drama more
Tagline:
Who said anything about talent?
Plot:
Starting from childhood attempts at illustration, the protagonist pursues his true obsession to art school. But as he learns how the art world really works, he finds that he must adapt his vision to the reality that confronts him. full summary | full synopsis
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User Comments:
Great cast, but not quite a good movie more (118 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Max Minghella ... Jerome

Sophia Myles ... Audrey

John Malkovich ... Professor Sandiford

Jim Broadbent ... Jimmy

Matt Keeslar ... Jonah

Ethan Suplee ... Vince

Joel Moore ... Bardo (as Joel David Moore)
Nick Swardson ... Matthew

Anjelica Huston ... Art History Teacher

Adam Scott ... Marvin Bushmiller

Jack Ong ... Professor Okamura
Scoot McNairy ... Army-Jacket

Jeremy Guskin ... Eno
Monika Ramnath ... Flower
Isaac Laskin ... Kiss-Ass
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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated R for language including sexual references, nudity and a scene of violence.
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Runtime:
USA:102 min | 102 min (Sundance Film Festival) | Argentina:102 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital | DTS
Certification:
Canada:14A (Ontario) | Singapore:M18 | Argentina:16 | USA:R (certificate #41649) | Australia:MA | Germany:12 | New Zealand:R16 | USA:R
Filming Locations:
Communications Center, Los Angeles City College - 855 North Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, California, USA more
Company:
United Artists more

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Trivia:
According to a pod-cast interview in 2006, Terry Zwigoff based his direction for Ethan Suplee (Vince) on the way Troy Duffy acts as a director in the documentary Overnight (2003). more
Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: When Jerome's roommate, the fashion designer, is sewing on his machine, it wasn't threaded correctly. The spool was on the bobbin loader, not the spool pin where it should be. more
Quotes:
Vince: Man, if she were my girlfriend, I'd be pounding that night and day. more
Movie Connections:
References Reservoir Dogs (1992) more
Soundtrack:
Hungarian Dance No. 5 more

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48 out of 85 people found the following comment useful.
Great cast, but not quite a good movie, 27 January 2006
4/10
Author: ArizWldcat from Ogden UT

We saw this dark comedy at Sundance (SLC showing). I wanted very much to give this a totally positive review, but it's just so disjointed that it was hard to decide what it was trying to say. The cast is terrific: John Malkovic, Anjelica Huston, Jim Broadbent, Sophie Myles, among others. There are a lot of things that are funny in this film, and we did laugh. But the storyline is all over the place. I read an interview with the director (who didn't come for Q & A after this one), and he said the storyline has a lot to do with his fear of New York, along with his fascination for it. The NYC shown in this film is very scary; I don't think I'd ever even want to visit it, much less want to live there! The film skewers a lot of snooty art types, and in that arena, it works. However, the second half of the movie just didn't quite work for me. The firsthalf of the film was amusing, but when it turned extremely dark in the final act, it just didn't feel right. It's too bad, because I think it's great fun to skewer the snooty art world...but this was just too far over the top.

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