A Film with Me in It
A Film with Me in It
NR | 01 January 2010 (USA)
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A dissolute scriptwriter and a dejected actor become unwittingly drawn into a labyrinthine mess when several people experience bizarre accidental deaths in their flat. Though the men didn't deliberately cause any of the incidents, they fear that they will be unfairly pegged as murderers if they relay information to the cops, and promptly set about disposing of the corpses in gruesome ways.

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Oguz Halavurta

Mark is rejected by one more movie project. Permanent looser Mark is living in a wrecked house which he can't pay for the rent for three months together with his brother in wheel chair. His life is falling apart with his failures at job and problems with his girl friend. Leading role in his friend's movie sounds for him like the solution to everything. The script of Pierce who is an impenitent alcoholic coincides whit what we are watching. We can't be sure if the movie they want to make at this specific day is what we are watching or they are inspired by this day for their movie. After such shrewd start, movie presents 90 minutes laughters to us.Tragedies one after another don't change Mark's indifferent attitude to life even when he has lost almost everything. Mark's astonishment and Pierce's reactions are main objects of the movie represents British comedy manner. What is happening to them is too much absurd even for a movie according to a movie writer Pierce he says but they again find the solution in a scenario idea.Everything is fabulously funny in this good sample of British comedy which resembles "Shaun of Dead" and "Hot Fuzz". A Film With Me In It, second movie of Ian Fitzgibbon has various critics like his first job but still it attracts attention in some Festivals include Irish Film and Television Academy (IFTA).

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Michael Heide

The idea is fantastic. A bunch of people keep having deadly accidents in the apartment of a broke wannabe-actor. Now he has to avoid looking like a deranged serial killer while the bodies start piling up and his best friend tries to write a movie around the whole thing. Tucker & Dale Versus Evil uses one half of that plot, and it is hilarious. 7 Psychopaths uses the other half, and it's brilliant. One would think that a black-humoured British amalgam of both ideas, starring Dylan Moran of Black Books and Shaun of the Dead would be even better. One would be very, very mistaken. The first wasted opportunity is casting Dylan Moran not as the lead, but as the grumpy alcoholic screenwriter friend who plays second fiddle to Mark Doherty. Doherty is unable to make his character likable, or what happens to him intriguing. Instead, he sleepwalks through the movie like a robot telling a joke. The next big flaw is the soundtrack, or lack thereof. Combined with the bad pacing, you never get a sense of events escalating. Instead, it's a string of the same thing happening over and over again until the film ends with an unlikely and unsatisfying denouement, while the subplots go nowhere. So much wasted potential. This could have been a sleeper hit with a cult following. And it turned out to be bargain bin fodder that's just not worth watching. At all. Stay away.

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ox-cassandra_bauer

I found myself watching this movie, alone in bed, eating popcorn, hungover like a beach towel on a Tuesday night.Incredible.. 3 people and a dog and a police woman died in a flat from horrific freak accidents.. all in a matter of minuets, it's not funny but why am I laughing? Uncontrollable. Lots of twists, great film, well good enough. Love Dylan Moran, I hope to one day marry a man just like himself. Eight out of Ten stars for 'a film with me in it' please enjoy as much as I indeed did.Make sure to check out my list of movies to watch - recommended by myself. if you like this you are bound to enjoy the other titles in the list on my profile.

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gregking4

Black comedies don't come much darker than this little gem from Ireland. Audiences who loved last year's Death At A Funeral will get lots of laughs from this very funny comedy about a couple of hapless wannabe film makers and their attempts to cope with a couple of accidental deaths in a small flat. Mark (Mark Doherty) is a struggling out of work actor desperately looking for a decent role in a film. He shares a poky basement flat with his girlfriend Sally (Amy Huberman), and his paralysed wheelchair bound brother David (David O'Doherty). However, the rent is three months overdue, and there are a number of repairs to be made. However, their landlord Jack (Kevin Allen) is reluctant to do any work until the rent is paid. And Mark's slacker best friend Pierce (Irish comic Dylan Moran, from the TV series Black Books, etc) is trying to write a film script drawing upon their experiences. And then the first fatal accident occurs, and their situation gets markedly worse. As the unusual situation begins to get out of control, Pierce's helpful suggestions actually exacerbate things. There is a fine art to black comedy, as filmmakers have to walk a fine line between tasteful and tasteless, but this is the type of comedy where the British excel. Director Ian FitzGibbon and writer Mark Doherty get the delicate balance right here, and they push the material about as far as it can go without overstepping the boundaries of good taste. There are plenty of laugh-out loud moments throughout, some nice sight gags, and a running joke that eventually pays off. The film is a little slow to get going as it spends a lot of time in the early scenes establishing the characters and setting the scene. But patience is rewarded once the hits its stride, as it delivers big laughs. The film combines elements of top British films like the wonderful Withnail And I, and Shallow Grave. FitzGibbon and Doherty follow one outrageous implausibility with another, but the whole thing ultimately works. To reveal too much about the film's plot would spoil its surprises. The small but effective cast are attuned to the tone of the film, and their performances match the material. Doherty maintains a wonderfully deadpan style throughout and is quite fetching as the sad sack slacker hero. Moran brings charisma and charm to his unsympathetic and self-centred character. There are brief but telling from film director Neil Jordan and Jonathan Rhys Meyers that add to the film's idiosyncratic and offbeat flavour. A Film With Me In It is an unexpected delight and a film not to be missed!

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