Storytelling


This film features two separate segments, labelled ''Fiction'' and ''Non-Fiction''. The first concerns a student, who, keen to impress her professor, ends up having a brutal one-night-stand with him. The other is about a documentary film maker trying to make a film about a slacker teenage boy's attempts to get into college. He actually has no desire to go to college, but likes the idea of being in a movie. He is a constant source of disappointment to his proper Jewish parents.


88 minutes.
No persons under 16 (Language, Sex, Prejudice) .
Comedy

Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.

Now try and be a good Jewish boy...
Now try and be a good Jewish boy...

Credits

Cast
Selma Blair, Leo Fitzpatrick, Robert Wisdom, Maria Thayer, Angela Goethals, Devorah Rose, Nancy Ann Ridder
Director
Todd Solondz
ScreenplayTodd Solondz
MusicNathan Larsson, Isobel Campbell, Sarah Martin, Stuart Murdoch
CinematographyFrederick Elmes
Sound formatsDolby Digital, Dolby SR, Stereo
Made in2001
Produced byGood Machine, Killer Films, New Line Cinema

Official Site




Ratings

Scale (Max)20

What the Critics say

The Moviesite
Ian Douglas
11
Cape Argus
Derek Wilson
10
The Cape Times
Wilhelm Snyman
15
The Star
Ann Hornaday
12
Die Burger
Gabriël Botma
10
Tygerburger
Mariana Malan
5
Sunday Times
Barry Ronge
15
Total Movie
Nicky Dawson
10
M-Net Cinemagic
Barry Ronge
16
eye Weekly
Kim Linekin
7
Box Office
Lael Loewenstein
10
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
10
Film Review
James Cameron-Wilson
10
Uncut
Chris Roberts
18
Empire
Alan Morrison
10

What the People say

Internet
483 Netizens
14

Average .. 57%

11

Visitor Comments

Ian Douglas: I see the American critics were not too impressed... However I found it as a wry look at contemporary society, with all its hypocrisy and twisted moralities. I could say more but I feel like I'm stating the obvious... unfortunately, the people who would most benefit from some thinking provoked by this movie -- teenagers -- are unlikely to watch it. More's the pity.






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