Cliff Spab doesn't really care about anything. He gets held hostage at a store for 36 days by terrorists, who demand that the entire thing be broadcast on national television.
Cliff ends up taking a bullet for fellow hostage Wendy - making him a national hero.
The two are the sole survivors of the ordeal, and soon become prisoners of the media.
Cliff escapes it all, only to find himself being pushed further away from Wendy when he needs her most....
Once you get past the fact that Dorff sounds uncannily like Christian Slater, you get another one of those films from the mid nineties that tried to define good old 'generation X'. And for the most part, it works.
Dorff is great as the guy who is having his fifteen minutes of fame, but cannot decipher why people are not mentioning his friend who was killed. But this was a time when media only really dwelled on the good stuff, to sugar coat the public, to get more money behind their new 'celeb'
The film doesn't know what genre it belongs to. One minute it's hilarious, next it's soul searching, and then it goes for a Araki/Solondz hybrid that baffles.
But it's good, and all the performances are great, I just wish it didn't get lost in its own smugness every now and again.
The last fifteen minutes is great though, showing us how fickle the media were/are, and how fame really slips through your fingers, once a new fad has been found.
Everything Matters? S.F.W...
Cliff ends up taking a bullet for fellow hostage Wendy - making him a national hero.
The two are the sole survivors of the ordeal, and soon become prisoners of the media.
Cliff escapes it all, only to find himself being pushed further away from Wendy when he needs her most....
Once you get past the fact that Dorff sounds uncannily like Christian Slater, you get another one of those films from the mid nineties that tried to define good old 'generation X'. And for the most part, it works.
Dorff is great as the guy who is having his fifteen minutes of fame, but cannot decipher why people are not mentioning his friend who was killed. But this was a time when media only really dwelled on the good stuff, to sugar coat the public, to get more money behind their new 'celeb'
The film doesn't know what genre it belongs to. One minute it's hilarious, next it's soul searching, and then it goes for a Araki/Solondz hybrid that baffles.
But it's good, and all the performances are great, I just wish it didn't get lost in its own smugness every now and again.
The last fifteen minutes is great though, showing us how fickle the media were/are, and how fame really slips through your fingers, once a new fad has been found.
Everything Matters? S.F.W...