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| David Schwimmer | ... | Charlie | |
| Simon Pegg | ... | Gus | |
| Alice Eve | ... | Josie | |
| Natascha McElhone | ... | Penelope Wood | |
| Jon Polito | ... | Agent Hymes | |
| Mimi Rogers | ... | Mrs. Smalls | |
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William Rosenfeld | ... | Deputy Garman (as Billy Asher) |
| Julian Glover | ... | 80 Year Old Blind Man | |
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Olivia Peterson | ... | Emily |
| Sarah Edmondson | ... | Isabella | |
| Amber Sealey | ... | Call Center Supervisor | |
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Shauna Shim | ... | Melanie #1 |
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Laurence Bouvard | ... | Melanie #2 |
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Mindy Lee Raskin | ... | Melanie #3 |
| Kenneth Jay | ... | Barman | |
Charlie is an ex-professor turned reluctant call center employee who gets fired on the first day. Distraught at being unable to provide for his daughter Emily and wife Penelope, he accepts when Gus, an aspiring scam artist who presents Charlie with a seemingly snag-free plan to make some cash. The plan is to blackmail Reverend Smalls, a man of the cloth, who's frequently turned up in the company database of visitors to illegal porn sites. Gus plans to extort Reverend Smalls, with the intention of publicly exposing his secret shame should he refuse, thus potentially destroying the man's career. Normally cautious, Charlie is keen on participating in this scam, confident that the money he'll make from the scam will finally help turn things around for him and his family. Joined by one-time teenage pageant queen Josie McBroom, Gus's ex, the plan goes ahead, but it all goes wrong as Reverend Smalls dies thanks to this trio, with this only being the start of their troubles. Written by ????
As a huge fan of the likes of Tarrantino, Fincher, and the Coen brothers, I'm betting that the skewed nature of the comedy is not going to be for everyone, but if you like your movies heavy on the WTF quotient, this one's for you.
I saw it at the Cardiff Film Festival last week, and the audience couldn't get enough of it. Really a fun "laughing your arse off" kind of a time. The twists, surprises, and laughs build and build to an ending which I won't give away but was not at all what I expected. Pegg and Schwimmer are a crack comedy duo, but the addition of Eve to the antics ups the ante nicely. It loses a star for taking a bit longer to get going than I would have liked, but I'm not quite sure how I would have cracked that particular nut.
All in all, this film's got more energy sparking off it than anything that's come down the pipe in quite a while. Will be seeing it again this weekend with my mates. GO BIG NOTHING!