A man becomes increasingly jealous of his friend's newfound success.
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Barry LevinsonWriter:
Steve Adams
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Cast
| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Ben Stiller | ... | Tim Dingman | |
| Jack Black | ... | Nick Vanderpark | |
| Rachel Weisz | ... | Debbie Dingman | |
| Amy Poehler | ... | Natalie Vanderpark | |
| Christopher Walken | ... | J-Man | |
| Ariel Gade | ... | Lula Dingman | |
| Sam Lerner | ... | Michael Dingman | |
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Lily Jackson | ... | Nellie Vanderpark |
| Connor Matheus | ... | Nathan Vanderpark | |
| Hector Elias | ... | Eduardo | |
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Angee Hughes | ... | Woman at Play |
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Manny Kleinmuntz | ... | Dimitriov |
| Blue Deckert | ... | Cal | |
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John Gavigan | ... | Les |
| Terry Bozeman | ... | 3M Worker | |
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Ben Stiller and Jack Black star as Tim and Nick, best friends, neighbors and co-workers, whose equal footing is suddenly tripped up when one of Nick's harebrained get-rich-quick schemes actually succeeds: Vapoorizer, a spray that literally makes dog poop, or any other kind for that matter, evaporate into thin air -- to where exactly is anyone's guess. Tim, who had scoffed at Nick's idea and passed on an opportunity to get in on the deal, can only watch as Nick's fortune -- and Tim's own envy -- grow to equally outrageous proportions. When the flames of jealousy are fanned by an oddball drifter (Walken) who imposes himself into the situation, Tim's life careens wildly out of control ... taking Nick's with it. Written by Anonymous
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Success didn't go to his head, it went to his neighbor. See more »Genres:
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Country:
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30 April 2004 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Box Office
Budget:
$40,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend USA:
$6,160,886, 2 May 2004Gross USA:
$13,562,325Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
$14,494,036Company Credits
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Tim Dingman: A little person...?
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Written by Friedrich-Wilhelm Möller & Antonia Ridge
Performed by Brave Combo
Courtesy of Rounder Records
By Arrangement with Ocean Park Music Group
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Writer Steve Adams is the Nephew of novelist Kurt Vonnegut. Bosco's line "Up your ass with Mobil gas" is taken from Vonnegut's book Breakfast of Champions. See more »Goofs
In the scene when J-Man is sitting in Tim's chair after Tim left the cabin, J-Man has crumbs on his shirt and pants. However, when the shot changes to show both J-Man and Tim, the crumbs disappear, then reappear when J-Man has his close-up again. See more »Quotes
Dr. Fernandez: [With hispanic accent] It becomes a lethal poison!Tim Dingman: A little person...?
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During the end credits, viewers see a TV infomercial for Dingman and Vanderpark's new invention, Pocket Flan. See more »Soundtracks
The Happy WandererWritten by Friedrich-Wilhelm Möller & Antonia Ridge
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When I first heard about a movie with Ben Stiller and Jack Black, yeah, I got my hopes up. I love these guys. Then I'd heard it started getting terrible reviews and my hopes sank. I think this is a necessary step to enjoying the movie. Because whoever gives it a negative review is someone who was clearly expecting a different movie, and rather than enjoy what they got, they complained about what they didn't. The comedy is SUPER dead-pan. If you're expecting Ben Stiller out of 'Something about Mary' or Jack Black out of 'Tenacious D', stop. Jack Black, by Jack Black standards, is in a coma in this movie. While some people want to see him scream and yell and all that (which is great), I found it just as funny that he was being 3/4's serious.
Quite unexpectedly, Christopher Walken made this movie. His personality was spot-on. This movie quite reminded me of another movie, which I can't quite remember unfortunately, but in some ways it also reminded me of Office Space. The dry, normal guy humor. "What would you do if you had a million dollars?" "Two chicks at the same time." And in some ways it reminds me of another recent Ben Stiller movie, Starsky and Hutch. It took me awhile to get into Starsky, because I thought it was meant to be a parody. Once I realised it was "serious" I had a lot more fun with it. And I laughed as much as Starsky, if not more, in Envy.