Disfigured (2008)

User Rating:

5.8/10   

Director:

Glenn Gers

Writer (WGA):

Glenn Gers (written by)

Release Date:

11 July 2008 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

Lydia is an overweight sales clerk in a trendy home furnishings store, nearing 30. Though she is a member...

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Deidra Edwards	...	Lydia
Staci Lawrence	...	Darcy
Ryan C. Benson	...	Bob
Elizabeth Sampson	...	Carol
Sonya Eddy	...	Pam
Lindsay Hollister	...	Alice
Heather Brooker	...	Judy
April M. Walsh	...	Gwen
Juanita Guzman	...	Roxanne
Teebone Mitchell	...	Hilliard (as Trevor Mitchell)
Patrick Gorman	...	Marcus
Laurie O'Brien	...	Sheila
Cheyenne Wilbur	...	Patrick
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Sarah Bassak	...	Sarah
Mercedes Castro	...	Mercy
Bruce Cronander	...	Party Guest
Edward Rodrigo Diaz	...	Ed
Tricia Dickson	...	Cordelia
Henry Dittman	...	Mr. Devreaux
Judith Drake	...	Sugar
Sasha Harris	...	Carmen
Catherine Anne Hayes	...	Catherine
Julie Inmon	...	Julie
Lori Ada Jaroslow	...	Ardra (as Lori Ada)
Chenese Lewis	...	Chenese
Elias McCabe	...	2nd Party Guest
John Stewart Muller	...	Buyer Husband
Donna Pieroni	...	Sophia
Shant'e Reese	...	Shant'e
Gene Richards	...	Plum
Seirah Royin	...	Thin Woman
Stu Smith	...	The Counter Guy (as Stuart Randy Smith)
Florence Young	...	Buyer Wife

Runtime:

96 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Company:

Launchpad Productions

disFOCUSED!

This is the most controversial movie, I saw in last few years. I am bit rounded too, as my wife is. This is the only movie we watched for double its time, since all the time we were pausing it to discuss it (so consider it really worths watching!). For everybody in the group of rounded or anorexic people, this would be interesting to see. I will not reveal details of the movie, in short I will mention it is about an overweight and an anorexic women, trying to face and solve their problems. The movie is really well made, by script and performance. There are just two weak spots.

First, the script itself. The movie tries to tell that we should accept the way we are. Well - totally wrong! We should accept it just to a certain level. Then whatever we dislike, we can change. Yes - we can and must change ourselves - strive for perfection, because we could never be perfect, but in the pursuit of perfection is where we get better and learn to fight. So overweight and anorexic people should not satisfy and stay the way they are and ask the world to accept them - they should fight to change instead and there is where the world would accept them! I don't know about anorexic people, but fat people could do diets and same time go to gym/parks for workouts. The main character complains about gyms and this is totally wrong. (believe me as overweight, this is what I do - diets + gym and it works) Second, this movie should change its title from "disFigured" to "disFOCUSED!". This is the worse shoot movie ever. The camera man really need more practice. First the camera moves too much and then it loses focus with the objects very often. True - for less than a second, but it really pisses me off.

Apart of this, the actors are very cute and it really makes you think about the way you live. The interaction between the main characters - the contrast of the overweight and the anorexic woman is very interesting, so just go see it!