Derek Harvie Movies
- 2008
Kenny Vs. Spenny writer/creator Kenny Hotz crafts this sitcom centering on a pair of roommates and longtime friends who both work as test subjects at an off-the-wall product testing factory. Peter (Steve Markle) and Ron (Jeff Kassel) are both in their early thirties. They've been friends for years, but these days they share an apartment and work together at Testico, the local product testing facility. Each week the hapless duo is given a new product to test and asked to report back on the side effects. Despite the fact that the side effects of the products being tested are generally ridiculous and consistently negative, Peter and Ron both do their best to carry on with their lives until the next line of products rolls around and the cycle starts all over again. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Steve Markle, Jeff Kassel, (more)
- 2003
Tom Green: Roadkill focuses on the misadventures of Tom Green and his dead pet racoon, Racky. Obscenity and laughs ensue in various uncensored segments that were deemed too gross for TV. Like Tonsil Hockey and Something Smells Funny, Roadkill is an unadulterated, carcass-humping good time for any Tom Green fan.
~ Tracie Cooper, All Movie Guide
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
- 2000
Tom Green, infamously grotesque comedian/actor, began performing on a Canadian cable access channel before having his controversial show picked up by MTV in 1999. Total absurdity through gross gags and crazy antics fill the The Tom Green Show episodes in their entirety. In "Tonsil Hockey," Green entertains by French kissing everything in his path, and makes new paths at whim to stick his tongue into whatever bemuses. No, the title "Tonsil Hockey" is not a clever metaphor, but literal indeed. Typically Tom Green, the video is a set of shockingly hilarious skits. ~ Sarah Sloboda, All Movie Guide
- 1997
Tom Green: Inside and Outside the Box collects 26 episodes of the performer's original Canadian television series. The release also includes unaired footage. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Tom Green, Glenn Humplik, (more)
Years before comedian Tom Green was amusing, amazing, and appalling American audiences with his over-the-top gross-out humor on MTV (and even before he became a star in his native Canada), he was just another loony with a show on public access TV. Early Exposure: Raw Meat and Rare Treats is a collection of "highlights" from Tom Green's earliest TV efforts, culled from episodes of his "variety show" for the Rogers TV cable access channel in Ottawa, where he made his first steps toward fame in 1993. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
