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Duj looks at David Foley's THE WRONG GUY!
Hey there everyone, looks like Dave Foley's new film sounds pretty darn enticing. I hope it gets out there for all of us to judge for ourselves. I hate potentially fun movies that sit in cans gathering the scent of ammonia. Films deserve light showing through them, and a screen to fall upon. Let's see what else we hear about this one...
Some ugly movie news and a review you might be interested in.
As part of the "Toyota Film Festival" in New York, there was a series of
independant comedy films shown at The Screening Room. On the top of the
bill was "The Wrong Guy," a film Co-Produced, Co-Written, and starring
David Foley.
The movie is knockout hilarious for Foley and non-Foley fans alike. It
starts out slow, with some, frankly, hackneyed "corporate office humor"
that had me squirming in my seat. But that is swiftly jettisoned after the
first five minutes, and it is belly laughs the whole rest of the way.
The basic story: Dave Foley stars as Nelson Hibbert, a corporate VP who
walks into his boss' office only to find him murdered. Nelson freaks out,
gets his fingerprints everywhere, and then flees the scene, covered in his
boss' blood. Now convinced that he's the prime suspect, Nelson goes on the
lam. What he doesn't realize is that a security camera caught the whole
murder on tape, so the police already know who the real killer is. They
aren't even LOOKING for him. Of course, the killer is....
The performances, once the movie is rolling, are almost all top notch.
Foley is dead on... well, Foley. Jennifer Tilley is also funny as the
narcoleptic love intrest, and Dave Higgins (Of 'Storm of the Century'
fame), is perfect as the supervillan who is convinced that the bumbling,
wimpy Nelson is some sort of mastermind detective.
The movie isn't perfect. The opening scenes (which are vital to the plot),
are annoying one-dimensional office humor. Similarly, the investigating
police officers sort of fall flat. I squrimed through almost every one of
their scenes, but luckily those scenes were short, and then it was back to
Foley, Higgins, and Tilley. And no, luckily this is not a huge Kids in the
Hall skit (though fans will eat it up), and it is far funnier than Brain
Candy.
I'd like to end this review of "The Wrong Guy" by saying, "If you like
strong, original humor with an absurdist twist, then you've gotta see this
movie." However, that's where the ugliness comes in. Seeing the movie.
Foley was actually on hand at the Screening Room to introduce this film.
That was very cool, but what he had to say was not. In his introduction,
he told of how the movie's original production house, Buena Vista, went out
of business during production. Then right after that, their Canadian
backing, Paragon pictures, ALSO went belly up. Now the movie floats in the
bottomless depths of Disney limbo, and from hearing Dave talk, it doesn't
sound like it will ever see the light of day. This would really suck,
because it's a winner.
Sidenote: As if in further evidence of this curse, the film slipped off
sprockets about halfway through the movie. Oops! Dave was really cool
about it tho, tossing out some lighthearted quips during the blackout.
Shame that it happened, though, because the print was pristine; probably
never even screened before. Too bad the projector had to eat it.
BTW, Foley had also been on Conan friday night (the night before the
screening) talking it up about "The Wrong Guy." I hope the 30-second clip
that they showed then will not be the only bit of this movie that gets
national exposure! Disney ought to wake up and release this movie.
Footnote: Two other short films were screened along with "The Wrong Guy."
One of them was Steven Wright's "One Soldier." It is a MUST for Steven
Wright fans. It is set during the Civil War and... well, a description is
useless. You've just gotta see it, any way that you can.
Hope this is of interest,
Duj
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Jun 13, 1999 12:30:48 AM CDT
Sounds like it could be a good Pink Panthers type of thing or a
by paragonian
Depends on how good the acting and writing are. By the way, those bastards at Paragon Pictures stole my name, I'd sue em if they weren't already bankrupt.
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That's Canada's cable channel, The Movie Network. They do these little behind-the-scenes things on TMN and Foley was sort of acting like he didn't expect this movie to go anywhere or do much business, but maybe it has a chance in the States.
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I think I liked it even better than the reviewer above--the "one dimensional office humour" is actually the usual Kids in the Hall-like silliness, I'm not sure what he's thinking. David Foley is one of those people you just have to "get", and which Canadians seem to find funnier than Americans--like Mike Myers or Norm MacDonald. (Not that Americans don't like those guys either, but these people are worshipped up here. Especially Myers, right now. You can't throw a stone without hitting someone doing an Austin Powers impression. But I digress.) Anyway, the movie is the same kind of humour that Foley did best on Kids, him being a deadpan weirdo with a lot of cheesy mannerisms. You'll laugh, or maybe you won't. The movie, contrary to the above, is more for Foley fans. BTW, note that the Bare Naked Ladies have a cameo as a bunch of A Capella-singin' cops, and former Simpsons writer Jay Kogen (who also co-wrote) has a major part as the idiot cop who's on the killer's trail.
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Why do americans get everything so damn late? i mean this is old! and what's this about it being better than brain candy? brain candy was funny as hell... still this film kicks ass too. americans never did get kids in the hall... sad sad. i even think hbo cut stuff... oh well... at least we can enjoy this stuff anytime we want without disney butting in.
btw: this film was supposed to be released ages ago in the usa. disney backed out during the umm... (here comes the spoiler)
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hope you americanners see this one!
cheers
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As someone who worked on "The Wrong Guy", I'm glad Duj liked the film. But the killer (or supervillan as Duj calls him) was NOT played by David Higgins but by Colm Feore, one of Canada's best actors and a noted performer of Shakespeare. Colm was the bad guy in "Storm of the Century". Dave Higgins was the bookstore staffer on "Ellen" and also co-wrote "Wrong Guy". The movie did play in Toronto for a couple of weeks to poor reviews and box office. But this was sometime after it played on intercontinental air flights. Sigh.
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I was wondering why it never came out in the states. Personally I loved the movie, it's quite kidsinthehallish and Simpsony. Jennifer tilly is great in it, she plays a narcaleptic that foley falls in love with. She keeps fallig asleep while they're driving. There is a fantastic scene where Matt Foley has to make up a fake name while he is in the hospital (because he thinks he's a fugitive) something along the lines of enema-bag jones or something.
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