A film noir buff has his life turned on end by a femme fatale with a big adventure in mind.
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| Cillian Murphy | ... | Neil | |
| Lucy Liu | ... | Violet | |
| Jason Sudeikis | ... | Jonathan | |
| Michael Panes | ... | Lucien | |
| Callie Thorne | ... | Marcia | |
| Michael Yurchak | ... | Buddy | |
| Heather Burns | ... | Denise | |
| Mark Harelik | ... | Detective Barloe | |
| Ali Reza | ... | Detective Lowenstein | |
| Josh Pais | ... | Andy | |
| Brett Gelman | ... | Glenn | |
| Lonny Ross | ... | Eager Customer | |
| Paul Scheer | ... | Annoying Customer | |
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Richard Waddingham | ... | Dennis - Bald Giant |
| J. T. O'Connor | ... | Bald Creep | |
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Neil, a self proclaimed film geek and owner of Gumshoe video, has always been content to live vicariously through his favorite films noir. But when he meets Violet, a real-life femme fatale, his mundane world gets turned upside down and the line between reality and the movies quickly begins to blur. Will Neil step up and embrace a life full of adventure or retreat back to his comfortable couch? Written by Anonymous
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Country:
USALanguage:
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11 September 2008 (Russia) See more »Also Known As:
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Violet: Well, I've been to a movie. Does that count?
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Written by Mark Petrie (as Mark John Petrie) (ASCAP)
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While it did premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2007, the film was unable to secure distribution for a theater release and so went straight to DVD. See more »Goofs
During Neil's "concert" for Violet, she accidentally burns a cardboard cutout's eye. Later when Neil is crying over their breakup while ringing up a customer, it shows the cutout burn-free. See more »Quotes
Neil: You never rented a movie?Violet: Well, I've been to a movie. Does that count?
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While the premise of the movie was most attractive to me: "A film noir buff has his life turned on end by a femme fatale with a big adventure in mind," and the casting of Cillian Murphy and Lucy Liu quite inspired, the execution was pretty ho-hum, and it's no wonder this movie went straight to video.
Despite the premise, this movie's more of a twisted rom-com, in which Liu somewhat sadistically teases Murphy on by constantly lying to him about everything, and Murphy masochistically keeps going along like a puppy who's been whipped and likes it. It's cute... for a little while, and then you start wondering what kind of a fetishistic sex life they would have as a couple.
There are a few weak tribute scenes to the film-noir genre, but the only truly geeky (and amusing) scene comes when a group of movie buffs try to guess where and why Liu stopped watching a videotape movie by looking at how much reel has been unspooled.
I wish someone would give Lucy Liu a movie in which she's not portrayed as an Asian tigress, no matter how she does look like one.