Storytelling (2001)
- Starring:
- Selma Blair, Leo Fitzpatrick, (more)
- Director(s):
- Todd Solondz
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- R
- Category:
- Independent Films
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From the controversial director of Happiness comes another dark look at New Jersey, this time broken into two separate stories. The first is a 26-minute segment entitled "Fiction," which highlights the life of Marcus (Leo Fitzpatrick), an aspiring writer who was born with deformities due to cerebral palsy. He unsuccessfully tries to read a new short story to his girlfriend Vi (Selma Blair), and leaves her after the story is similarly dismissed by his fellow students and teacher, Mr. Scott (Robert Wisdom), a black Pulitzer Prize winner. Vi approaches Mr. Scott in a bar one night and agrees to go home with him, recalling a "fictional" account of their experience in the next class. The second segment, titled "Nonfiction," follows Toby Oxman (Paul Giamatti), a thirtysomething sad sack who gets the idea to make a documentary of contemporary suburban teenage life. Looking for subjects, he runs into Scooby (Mark Webber), a disaffected, dim young man who dreams of being a TV star. Scooby's home life is highly dysfunctional, with a strict father (John Goodman), a prim and proper mother (Julie Hagerty), a football player brother (Noah Fleiss), and a younger brother Mikey (Jonathan Osser), who continually chats up the family's put-upon maid Consuelo (Lupe Ontiveros). Consuelo is soon banished from the household due to her involvement with Mikey, becoming an outcast just like Scooby. ~ Jason Clark, All Movie Guide
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 87 mins
Complete Cast of Storytelling
- Selma Blair - Vi
- Aleksa Palladino - Catherine
- Noah Fleiss - Brady Livingston
- John Goodman - Marty Livingston
- Lupe Ontiveros - Consuelo
- Mike Schank - Mike
- Mary Lynn Rajskub - Melinda
- Leo Fitzpatrick - Marcus
- Robert Wisdom - Mr. Gary Scott
- Paul Giamatti - Toby Oxman
- Julie Hagerty - Fern Livingston
- Franka Potente - Editor
- Mark Webber - Scooby Livingston
- Director(s):
- Todd Solondz
- Writer(s):
- Todd Solondz
- Producer(s):
- Christine Vachon, Ted Hope
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- R(Not For Children, Adult Situations, Substance Abuse, Adult Humor, Profanity, Strong Sexual Content, Violence)
- Categories:
- Independent Films
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