Intern
Stars: Dominique Swain, Joan Rivers, Kathy Griffin, Ben Pullen, Peggy Lipton | Written by Caroline Doyle, Jill Kopelman | Directed by Michael Lange
Intern is about an intern at Skirt magazine, a rival to Vogue. It starts in a mockumentary style and then becomes a straight-up parody on the fashion magazine industry. It’s frankly atrocious. The characters are caricatures of anything you might encounter in the industry, the main character is uninteresting and there’s a pointless side-story about a mole giving stories to Vogue. Most bewilderingly is an odd cameo from Gwyneth Paltrow, who is sat with the Editor-At-Large of Vogue in a throw-away dinner scene which adds nothing to the story, and if anything makes Paltrow look like a fucking idiot for ever thinking this was a good idea.
Joan Rivers and Kathy Griffin appear as editors on the magazine, during what must have been after only the...
Stars: Dominique Swain, Joan Rivers, Kathy Griffin, Ben Pullen, Peggy Lipton | Written by Caroline Doyle, Jill Kopelman | Directed by Michael Lange
Intern is about an intern at Skirt magazine, a rival to Vogue. It starts in a mockumentary style and then becomes a straight-up parody on the fashion magazine industry. It’s frankly atrocious. The characters are caricatures of anything you might encounter in the industry, the main character is uninteresting and there’s a pointless side-story about a mole giving stories to Vogue. Most bewilderingly is an odd cameo from Gwyneth Paltrow, who is sat with the Editor-At-Large of Vogue in a throw-away dinner scene which adds nothing to the story, and if anything makes Paltrow look like a fucking idiot for ever thinking this was a good idea.
Joan Rivers and Kathy Griffin appear as editors on the magazine, during what must have been after only the...
- 7/25/2011
- by JeButlin
- Nerdly
NEW YORK -- It may be that the fashion industry, the subject of this purported comedy, is too ludicrous to generate a workable satire. If Robert Altman couldn't do it with "Ready to Wear", it seems unrealistic to expect anything much better from this low-budget indie effort, despite the fact that its screenwriters have extensive credentials in the fashion magazine biz. "Intern" is playing its exclusive theatrical engagement at New York's Screening Room, with a video release set for next month.
The central and title character, Jocelyn Bennett (Dominique Swain), is a young intern at the hip New York fashion magazine Skirt, where she must cope with the demands of tyrannical, bulimic editors and high-strung fashion models. The only bright spot for Jocelyn, who aptly describes herself as a "Xerox whore", is her burgeoning relationship with the magazine's art director, Paul (Ben Pullen), who is, believe it or not, straight but involved with a model. The main plot concerns Jocelyn's efforts to discover the identity of a traitor in the magazine's midst who is faxing editorial secrets to archrival Vogue.
The film begins in promising fashion with an entertainingly campy song-and-dance number, and the comic dialogue and characterizations resonate with the kind of authenticity that can only be garnered by real experience. Adding to the verisimilitude are cameos by a gallery of famous faces from the fashion industry, including Kenneth Cole, Tommy Hilfiger, Diane Von Furstenberg and Cynthia Rowley; a brief, meaningless appearance by Gwyneth Paltrow is also thrown in. But the cartoonish nature of the humor and lack of true wit ultimately undo the film, and the mediocre technical aspects -- the sound quality is particularly bad -- are no help.
A surprisingly strong cast has been assembled, to little avail. Swain and Pullen are charming in the lead roles, but their performances are too low-key to match their surroundings. Although funny moments are provided by such comic stalwarts as Kathy Griffin and Joan Rivers in small roles, most of the other performers, including Peggy Lipton and Paulina Porizkova, display little comic flair.
INTERN
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Director: Michael Lange
Screenwriters: Caroline Doyle, Jill Kopelman
Producers: Galt Neiderhoffer,
Etchie Stroh, Daniela Soto-Taplin
Executive producer: Randy Simon
Director of photography: Rodney Charters
Editor: Anita Brandt Burgoyne
Composer: Jimmy Harry
Production designer: Jody Asnes
Color/stereo
Cast:
Jocelyn Bennett: Dominique Swain
Paul Rochester: Ben Pullen
Roxanne Rochet: Peggy Lipton
Sebastian Niederfarb: Billy Porter
Richard Sinn: David Deblinger
Antoinette De la Paix: Anna Thompson
Resin: Leilani Bishop
Running time - 93 minutes
No MPAA rating...
The central and title character, Jocelyn Bennett (Dominique Swain), is a young intern at the hip New York fashion magazine Skirt, where she must cope with the demands of tyrannical, bulimic editors and high-strung fashion models. The only bright spot for Jocelyn, who aptly describes herself as a "Xerox whore", is her burgeoning relationship with the magazine's art director, Paul (Ben Pullen), who is, believe it or not, straight but involved with a model. The main plot concerns Jocelyn's efforts to discover the identity of a traitor in the magazine's midst who is faxing editorial secrets to archrival Vogue.
The film begins in promising fashion with an entertainingly campy song-and-dance number, and the comic dialogue and characterizations resonate with the kind of authenticity that can only be garnered by real experience. Adding to the verisimilitude are cameos by a gallery of famous faces from the fashion industry, including Kenneth Cole, Tommy Hilfiger, Diane Von Furstenberg and Cynthia Rowley; a brief, meaningless appearance by Gwyneth Paltrow is also thrown in. But the cartoonish nature of the humor and lack of true wit ultimately undo the film, and the mediocre technical aspects -- the sound quality is particularly bad -- are no help.
A surprisingly strong cast has been assembled, to little avail. Swain and Pullen are charming in the lead roles, but their performances are too low-key to match their surroundings. Although funny moments are provided by such comic stalwarts as Kathy Griffin and Joan Rivers in small roles, most of the other performers, including Peggy Lipton and Paulina Porizkova, display little comic flair.
INTERN
Cowboy Booking International
Director: Michael Lange
Screenwriters: Caroline Doyle, Jill Kopelman
Producers: Galt Neiderhoffer,
Etchie Stroh, Daniela Soto-Taplin
Executive producer: Randy Simon
Director of photography: Rodney Charters
Editor: Anita Brandt Burgoyne
Composer: Jimmy Harry
Production designer: Jody Asnes
Color/stereo
Cast:
Jocelyn Bennett: Dominique Swain
Paul Rochester: Ben Pullen
Roxanne Rochet: Peggy Lipton
Sebastian Niederfarb: Billy Porter
Richard Sinn: David Deblinger
Antoinette De la Paix: Anna Thompson
Resin: Leilani Bishop
Running time - 93 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 8/16/2000
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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