Rating: R
Genre:
Comedy
Release Date: 10/23/2001
SubTitles: English/Espanol
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: DD5.1/DDS
Run Time: 87 Minutes
Distributor/Studio: 20th Century Fox
Television star
Tom Green makes his directorial debut with this gross-out comedy.
Green stars as Gord Brody, a 28-year-old slacker who aspires to be an animator of Hollywood cartoons. After his dreams of working for studio mogul Dave Davidson (
Anthony Michael Hall) temporarily wash out, along with his thankless job at a cheese factory, Gord returns home to live with his parents, Jim (
Rip Torn) and Julie (
Julie Hagerty). Jim wishes that Gord would simply grow up, move out of the basement, and get a real job like his younger brother Freddy (
Eddie Kaye Thomas), who works in a responsible position at a bank. When the battle of wills between Gord and Jim heats up, Gord devises various stunt-like schemes to drive his father bonkers, including the bogus charge that their father molested Freddy as a youngster.
Marisa Coughlan co-stars as Gord's wheelchair-bound, nymphomaniac, amateur rocket-scientist girlfriend Betty, while comedian and
Green's fellow Canada native
Harland Williams plays Gord's oddball neighbor Darren.
~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide