Pauly Shore Is Dead (2003)

Hollywood's Pauly Shore loses everything, fakes his own death, and gets caught.

Director:

Pauly Shore

Writers:

Kirk Fox, Pauly Shore

Stars:

Ashley L. Anderson, Pamela Anderson, Camille Anderson

1 win.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Ashley L. Anderson	...	Ashley
Pamela Anderson	...	Pamela Anderson
Camille Anderson	...	Michael Madsen's Girl
Beaumont Bacon	...	Pauly Look-A-Like Contestant
Adam Barnhardt	...	Lawrence
Dan Barnes	...	Cop #4
A.J. Benza	...	A.J. Benza
Susan Berger	...	Tourist #2
Jaime Bergman	...	Zoey Abernacky
Blunt	...	Newspaper Stand Attendant
B-Real	...	B-Real
Todd Bridges	...	Todd Bridges
W. Earl Brown	...	Bucky From Kentucky
Julia Brox	...	Springer Girl #2
Julie Bruce	...	Tourist #9 in Van

Storyline

Hollywood comedian and actor Pauly Shore loses everything: his house, nobody in Hollywood wants to represent him, he moves back home with his mom and is now parking cars at The Comedy Store. Then one night when he's up in his mom's loft, a dead famous comedian appears who tells Pauly to kill himself cause he'll go down as a comedic genius who died before his time. Pauly then fakes his own death, and the media goes crazy. Celebrities are talking about him on MTV and girls are fighting over him on Jerry Springer. It's everything that he wanted. His plan worked. A week or so later, the L.A.P.D. is tipped off about his whereabouts and they break down the door of the seedy motel room in which he's hiding out and throw him in Los Angeles County's celebrity wing.

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Plot Keywords:

2000s | failing career | riches to rags | faked death | los angeles california | 

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Taglines:

Hollywood will never be the same.

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Genres:

Comedy

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for language, sexual content and some drug references

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

January 2003 (USA)

Also Known As:

You'll Never Wiez in This Town Again

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Box Office

Opening Weekend USA:

$11,000, 19 September 2004

Gross USA:

$11,000

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$11,000

Company Credits

Production Co:

Landing Patch Productions

Technical Specs

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Entirely funded by Pauly Shore.

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Goofs

When Pauly puts on The Jerry Springer Show, in prison, nothing is plugged into the outlet behind the TV.

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Quotes

Pauly Shore: Hey, aren't you Tom Sizemore?
Michael Madsen's girlfriend: No, this is Michael Madsen.
Pauly Shore: What's the difference?
Michael Madsen's girlfriend: Six inches.

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Crazy Credits

Outtakes are shown during the end credits.

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Connections

References Total Request Live (1998)

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Soundtracks

Access Hollywood Theme
Written by Robert Pfeifer and Jeff Pfeifer
EMI Music Publishing
Courtesy of NBC

User Reviews

What's With All The Hate?

First, this movie isn't supposed to be an Oscar contender. Second, it's still a Pauly Shore movie, even if it's not like any other Pauly Shore movie. I really think the negative reviews of this movie were from people putting it on a pedestal before even watching it, expecting it to be extremely artsy, a biting satire on Hollywood or whatever other pretentious reasons they could come up with to hate the movie when it failed to play out like their fantasy they came up with simply by looking at the box and title.

It's not a bad movie. It's not a great movie, but it's got plenty of humor in it, both clever Hollywood in-jokes (with lots of celebrities making fun of themselves along with Pauly) and simple toilet humor. I really think all the 'film school dropouts' need to sit back and enjoy the movie for what it is, not for what it isn't. It's a Pauly Shore movie that doesn't play like a typical Pauly Shore movie, nothing more nothing less. And if you didn't like other Pauly Shore movies, you should at least still give it a shot because of this. Just don't expect it cure cancer or feed hungry children. It's still a Pauly Shore movie.