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Four struggling actors retreat to a cabin in Big Bear, California in order to write a screenplay that will make them all stars. Problem is: What happens when their story idea -- a horror flick about a group of friends tormented by a villain with a bag over his head -- starts to come true? | full synopsis
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Sundance Primer: Untitled Duplass Brothers Project (aka Cyrus)
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First Look: Jonah Hill, John C. Reilly and Marisa Tomei head to Sundance
(From Hitfix. 3 December 2009, 6:45 PM, PST)
(From Cinematical. 8 December 2009, 9:15 AM, PST)
First Look: Jonah Hill, John C. Reilly and Marisa Tomei head to Sundance
(From Hitfix. 3 December 2009, 6:45 PM, PST)
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Indie Hubris At Its Most Ridiculous
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(Credited cast)| Ross Partridge | ... | Matt | |
| Steve Zissis | ... | Chad | |
| Greta Gerwig | ... | Michelle | |
| Elise Muller | ... | Catherine | |
| Jett Garner | ... | Jett Garner | |
| Anthony Cristo | ... | 'Priest' the Bouncer | |
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| Stephanie Huettner | ... | Girl in the Front Row | |
| Jennifer Lafleur | ... | Kristen Thompson | |
| Cass Naumann | ... | Cass | |
| Amy Quick Parrish | ... | Festival Audience Member | |
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Rated R for language, some sexual content and nudity.
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References Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
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This movie is one of the more dire examples of indie filmmakers thinking that ANY film which is low-budget and unscripted is automatically brilliant. I am an art school graduate with a very high tolerance for experimentation, and I can dig a very low-key movie if there is some kind of point to it. Even for the "mumblecore" aesthetic, this one tests the limits of just how irrelevant a story can be. It features thoroughly unlikable characters who have minor romantic issues (one has a low-level crush, another a vague sexual attraction) sitting around chatting listlessly in a generic mountain condo. To add insult, this apathetic dialog is captured with hyperactive, aggressive camera-work which never stops moving, favors extreme close-up for 95 percent of the shots, and leaves the very few events that happen in the film out of frame. The "scares" literally involve the characters occasionally startling one another. A barely feature-length film in which even the actors themselves grow visibly more and more bored and sleepy as the movie goes on. If you genuinely do like zero-stakes, zero-production value, shapeless and pointless indie movies, then this may be for you. But do not watch it expecting it to be a horror movie, or a comedy, or a relationship drama, or a parody. It is mostly nothing.