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The Sweatbox

  • 20022002
  • PG-13PG-13
  • 1h 35m
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The Sweatbox (2002)
  • Documentary
Sting's wife Trudie Styler documents the turbulent bureaucracy both Sting and the filmmakers went through in order to complete The Emperor's New Groove (2000), a Disney film that underwent e... Read allSting's wife Trudie Styler documents the turbulent bureaucracy both Sting and the filmmakers went through in order to complete The Emperor's New Groove (2000), a Disney film that underwent extensive storyline changes from start to finish.Sting's wife Trudie Styler documents the turbulent bureaucracy both Sting and the filmmakers went through in order to complete The Emperor's New Groove (2000), a Disney film that underwent extensive storyline changes from start to finish.
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  • Directors
    • John-Paul Davidson
    • Trudie Styler
  • Stars
    • John Goodman
    • Tom Jones
    • Eartha Kitt
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    • Trudie Styler
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    • Tom Jones
    • Eartha Kitt
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    Marc Shaiman
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    David Spade
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    Sting
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    Owen Wilson
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    Patrick Warburton
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    Roger Allers
    Roger Allers
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    Stephen J. Anderson
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    Dale Baer
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    Sting's wife Trudie Styler documents the turbulent bureaucracy both Sting and the filmmakers went through in order to complete The Emperor's New Groove (2000), a Disney film that underwent extensive storyline changes from start to finish.
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      • Rated PG-13 for brief strong language
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    • Trivia
      Outside of two screenings at the 2002 Toronto Film Festival and at the 2002 Florida Film Festival, this film has never been publicly released or screened.
    • Connections
      Featured in Animation Lookback: Walt Disney Animation Studios +: Part 10 (2020)
    • Soundtracks
      One Day She'll Love Me
      (uncredited) (2000)

      Written by Dave Hartley and Sting

      Performed by Sting and Shawn Colvin

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    7/10
    A missed opportunity
    The Sweatbox is a fascinating look into life cycle of a Disney production. I knew that Disney was extremely focused on story, but I didn't know that they were so focused that they would throw out an entire score, twice, and completely rewrite a story that had been in production for over a year.

    The basis of this makes a good foundation for a documentary. You get to see a world you don't normally see, and there are continuous conflicts.

    I make film essays on YouTube, which means I sometimes make mini documentaries. Deep into the research process, you often have all these threads and tangents that need to be sewn together. You need an overarching narrative. And it helps if that overarching narrative has some kind of emotion tied to it because that emotion creates an attachment in an otherwise purely informative piece. You could create this emotion from the interviews with your subjects, or you could decide on your own, and guide the narrative of the film there.

    The Sweatbox doesn't pick a particular emotion. Its narrative is that we're going to watch where the production started and where it ended. There's this really interesting emotional thread where the first director of the film gets his initial vision destroyed. And then he leaves the production, presumably. This is the strongest emotional thread in the film. How did he feel about the film that was finished without him? How did his life change after that? This is the emotional story behind a troubled, completely overhauled film production.

    Instead we get footage of responsible adults who accept their jobs are sometimes to create things that change or die. They reflect in logical, unemotional ways. And we march to the end of the film in an orderly fashion.
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    • Release date
      • September 13, 2002 (Canada)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • A Cabine
    • Production company
      • Xingu Films
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 35 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Stereo

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