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A comedy writer struggles to overcome his addiction to heroin while putting his professional and personal life in danger.A comedy writer struggles to overcome his addiction to heroin while putting his professional and personal life in danger.A comedy writer struggles to overcome his addiction to heroin while putting his professional and personal life in danger.
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- TriviaThe fictional television show "Mr. Chompers" was based on author Jerry Stahl's experience writing for ALF (1986). The other television series was based on Stahl's experiences on Twin Peaks (1990) and Moonlighting (1985), and its star was apparently based on Cybill Shepherd.
- GoofsWhen Jerry is at the methadone clinic, the doctor is checking boxes on a form he's filling out. The questions he asks Jerry do not match the boxes he checks.
- Quotes
Jerry Stahl: [Narrating] People always ask, "What's the worst thing heroin drove you to do?". I always answer, "showing up on Maury."
- Alternate versionsThe DVD features 3 deleted scenes:
- A wasted Jerry hitting on Owen Wilson's character's girlfriend and being thrown out.
- A long haired Jerry working for Hustler magazine.
- A stoned Jerry buying a muffin and being beaten with a baseball bat by the store clerk.
- SoundtracksOverwhelming
Performed and Written by Art Alexakis
Produced by Art Alexakis (as A.P. Alexakis) and Paul Fox
Recorded at A&M
Published by Irving Music, Inc./Evergleam Music (BMI)
Courtesy of Capitol Records, Inc.
Under license from EMI Music Special Markets
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Most of the drug-use scenes were fairly realistic. Been there and back myself, so to tell you the truth, nothing I saw in the movie made me wince, although there was a lot to relate to. There's a scene where - this really isn't a spoiler, given the context of the movie - where Jerry dumps some pills out of a prescription bottle, and they look exactly like the kind of pills they're supposed to be. Nice attention to detail. One thing that movies never quite get right or, perhaps like this one, simply choose to ignore, are the details of how one actually turns one's life around from being addicted to recovering, and this movie was no exception. We know in the beginning that Jerry has been through rehab, but that process itself, which may I say ain't exactly a cakewalk - and I mean you have to be clean before you can go through it, remains rather mysterious. Oh well, whatever, an interesting, entertaining movie that held my interest for its running time. Some usage scenes might be a bit upsetting to the non-anointed, although probably nothing quite so hard to take as in Requiem For A Dream.
- bluecrab22
- Jul 31, 2009
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $1,171,001
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $260,562
- Sep 20, 1998
- Gross worldwide
- $1,171,001
- Runtime1 hour 28 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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