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All those movies the snotty clerk at the video store keeps telling you to rent get raked over the coals in this over-the-top satiric comedy. Harvey (Eric Hoffman) and Sam (Neil Barton) are a pair of i... read more read more...dentically black-suited hitmen who have been assigned to take part in a conceptually disastrous robbery in Las Vegas. Harvey and Sam are supposed to pick the other members of their crew en route; however, by accident they end up with Johnny Vince (Darren Keefe), a would-be jazz musician with chronic woman problems, and try to compensate by taking a hostage, Julianne (Paget Brewster), a discount store drone who tells all within earshot about her a lousy marriage and dreams of a better life. As Harvey, Sam, and their unwilling companions hit the road to Sin City, they cross paths with an aggressively cheerful French girl named Anomalie (Ashley Head), a possible murderer with a really bad memory (Brian Krow), a German redhead who's always running somewhere (Regina Berger), a Mexican gunman with a guitar case and a poor command of English (Manolo Travieso), and an awful lot of sensitive and articulate lesbians. My Big Fat Independent Movie was scripted by Chris Gore, who helped document the rise of the independent movement in the 1980s and '90s as founder of the magazine Film Threat (feel free to read as much irony into that as you wish). ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

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R, 1 hr. 20 min.

Directed by: Philip Zlotorynski

Release Date: September 30, 2005

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DVD Release Date: January 24, 2006

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Flixster Reviews (214)

  • acenate
    March 25, 2007
    acenate
    Yeah, it's just not very good.
  • saintboondock1
    October 1, 2008
    saintboondock1
    is it a stupid spoof..yes...is it fun in a very stupid way yes dont watch it expecting anything other then true smarts from the normal old arthouse film and just watch it to enjoy making fun of stupid arthouse films
  • CinemaslaveJoe
    April 6, 2007
    CinemaslaveJoe
    It's "Scary Movie" for indie film fans, and just as stupid as it sounds. A feature-length parody weaving together characters and plot tangents from "Pulp Fiction," "Reservoir Dogs," "Amelie," "My Big Fat Greek Wedding," "El Mariachi," "Mulholland Drive," and many more. Much less ... read morethan the sum of its parts, and not nearly as clever or hip as the screenplay seems to think it is. It does have a great opening credits sequence, and two genuine laughs. It just doesn't have anything else.
  • dcs1978
    February 12, 2007
    dcs1978
    The only real highlight of this movie, is the dead on Christopher Walken impersonator and Jason Mewes as a pottie mouthed answering machine.

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Critic Reviews

Frank Scheck
December 29, 2005
Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter

This low-budget effort lacks the wit necessary to sustain its brief 80-minute running time.

Jeannette Catsoulis
November 28, 2005
Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times

My Big Fat Independent Movie is a frenetic attempt to spoof every major art-house film of the last decade. Full Review

Lou Lumenick
November 28, 2005
Lou Lumenick, New York Post

This painfully unfunny spoof promises to do for independent movies what Airplane! did for disaster movies, but mostly what My Big Fat Independent Movie does is demonstrate the ineptitude of its makers.

Ben Kenigsberg
November 21, 2005
Ben Kenigsberg, Village Voice

It's a sour, petty act of mockery that values its own ineptitude over genuine cleverness, travestying Quentin Tarantino and others simply for dreaming up gimmicks that worked. Full Review

Tom Long
November 4, 2005
Tom Long, Detroit News

If you've seen all the above films, this will all sound just as silly as it is. If you haven't, it will just sound cuckoo.

John Monaghan
November 4, 2005
John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press

Not every joke connects, but Gore and director Philip Zlotorynski make sure that five more are waiting around the corner.

Kevin Thomas
October 22, 2005
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times

Lame spoof of a plethora of '90s indie films, directed in ham-fisted fashion by Philip Zlotorynski. Full Review

David Nusair
January 14, 2006
David Nusair, Reel Film Reviews

...unrelentingly amateurish... Full Review

Maitland McDonagh
November 30, 2005
Maitland McDonagh, TV Guide's Movie Guide

The juvenile gags seem aimed at moviegoers who hate the whole idea of independent/art/foreign-language films and the stuck-up eggheads who like them -- so what's the point? Full Review

Phil Hall
November 24, 2005
Phil Hall, Film Threat

Hilarious parody of contemporary indie cinema. Full Review

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