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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0786936199345
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Miramax
Manufacturer: Miramax
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Miramax
Region Code: 1
Release Date: January 20, 2004
Running Time: 89 minutes
Sales Rank: 87322
Studio: Miramax
Theatrical Release Date: 2000
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Funnyman Jerry Stiller (ZOOLANDER, TV's THE KING OF QUEENS), Tim Matheson (VAN WILDER, ANIMAL HOUSE), Traci Lords (BLADE), and Fred Willard (AMERICAN WEDDING, A MIGHTY WIND) poke merciless fun at the overblown culture of Hollywood in this award-winning comedy (Audience Award –- Best Feature and Best Actor, HBO U.S. Comedy Arts Festival 2001). When TV’s Merv Griffin sues him, a frustrated commercial actor called "Milwaukee Steve" (Stephen Burrows) unwittingly stumbles into the notoriety he's longed for! As he rides the wave of undeserved popularity, Steve discovers that life in Hollywood’s fleeting limelight can be just as maddening as rejection! But even though a return to his childhood home of Milwaukee doesn’t give him what he’s looking for ... it might just get him what he needs! In the irreverent tradition of JAY & SILENT BOB STRIKE BACK, you’ll laugh out loud as this hilarious comedy dares to compare the insane business of Hollywood with the equally insane, but completely mundane, routine of Midwestern life!
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Rating:  -
Steve: Back in 19876 when we were roomates in Chicago and you just debuted with the Second City I told you that you ought to continue in this thing of filmmaking. Remember? I'm glad you did. I have some 50 pictures of you and the troupe back then. I might publish a book one of these days.
Thanks for having followed my advice. I for one have a LOT of fun watching you and your work and I'm sure a lot of people do to!
Best,
Jose
Spain
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Both clever and silly, this witty, well-written, well-acted little comedy deserved more confidence than the marketers seem to have had in it. Despite a series of film festival awards in 2001, it largely disappeared from view until quietly released on DVD in 2004.
This is hardly the first film to take a poke at its own industry and it surely won't be the last - Something to Sing About from 1937 with James Cagney, or the superb and darkly humorous The Player from 1992 with Tim Robbins ... Read More
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This is what you need.
Deep Comedy.
It's the kind of film that requires, NO, deserves multiple screenings.
If you are looking for an explanation to the pathos that drives Hollywood, it resides here. Laugh at these people, or else...
Rating:  -
If you've seen Christopher Guest's 1989 film, The Big Picture, then you've seen Chump Change (a much much better version, of course). This D-List chump borrows much of it's plot from The Big Picture - small town guy in big bad Hollywood, with two-faced agents and managers, crazy producers, a film deal that dies when the studio head gets fired and both have very similar happy endings. The boring, short and indulgent DVD bonus scenes should have stayed on the cutting room floor. Merv Griffin: thanks ... Read More
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Chump Change is hilarious!
Why isn't this guy making more movies.
Buy it, this is the one - out of the dozens of DVD's you own - that you'll actually watch over and over.
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