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| Ryan O'Neal | ... | James Edmunds | |
| Coolio | ... | Dion Brothers | |
| Chuck D | ... | Leon Brothers | |
| Eric Idle | ... | Alan Smithee | |
| Richard Jeni | ... | Jerry Glover | |
| Leslie Stefanson | ... | Michelle Rafferty | |
| Sandra Bernhard | ... | Ann Glover | |
| Cherie Lunghi | ... | Myrna Smithee | |
| Harvey Weinstein | ... | Sam Rizzo | |
| Gavin Polone | ... | Gary Samuels | |
| MC Lyte | ... | Sista Tu Lumumba | |
| Marcello Thedford | ... | Stagger Lee | |
| Nicole Nagel | ... | Aloe Vera | |
| Stephen Tobolowsky | ... | Bill Bardo | |
| Erik King | ... | Wayne Jackson | |
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Director Alan Smithee comes to Hollywood to make a movie. Due to a variety of factors, he decides to disown it and direct it under a pseudonym. Unfortunately, the Director's Guild requires that if a director disowns a movie in this fashion, he *must* use the official Director's Guild pseudonym...which happens to be Alan Smithee. Written by Afterburner <aburner@erols.com>
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8 May 1998 (Thailand) See more »Also Known As:
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$10,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend USA:
$28,992, 1 March 1998Gross USA:
$45,779Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
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During post-production, Joe Eszterhas announced through the media that Cinergi Pictures didn't have the money to pay for a soundtrack. He said he would finance the soundtrack himself, and asked artists to submit tracks for it. He received nine thousand two hundred CDs and cassettes, mostly from unknown, unsigned artists. He listened to a few tracks from each album, and compiled the soundtrack. See more »Crazy Credits
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Why did I buy this movie? Because several (British) friends of mine were discussing it passionately, declaring it a masterpiece satire full of wit and irony that Americans (and Germans) would probably never understand.
And because the cast list looks like a dream collection of funny actors: Jackie Chan, Sylvester Stallone, Whoopi Goldberg, Eric Idle, Ryan O'Neall....
And then this. My friends were right. If there is any humour, I did not get it. The movie tells of film-editor Alan Smithee, who has been given a chance at directing for the first time. An action blockbuster of unseen proportions (and budget). Seeing this movie, I could not help suspecting that it depicts quite accurately what might have happened behind the set of "M:I-2", with a kind director being overrun by his star's and producer's egos.
Unfortunately, the story isn't told linearly, but in flashbacks, and in interviews, and with the trailer for the blockbuster. It wants to be a mockumentary. Like "Bob Roberts".
But it just isn't all that funny. And Eric Idle is wasted, as he only ever gets to run around screaming manically during most of the few scenes he has.
To some it might be a classic. For me it was agonizing....