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  • Now try and be a good Jewish boy...

This film features two separate segments, labelled ''Fiction'' and ''Non-Fiction''. The first concerns a student, who, keen to impress her professor, ends up having a brutal one-night-stand with him. The other is about a documentary film maker trying to make a film about a slacker teenage boy's attempts to get into college. He actually has no desire to go to college, but likes the idea of being in a movie. He is a constant source of disappointment to his proper Jewish parents.


88 minutes, No persons under 16 (Language, Sex, Prejudice)
Comedy

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Credits
Cast
Selma Blair, Leo Fitzpatrick, Robert Wisdom, Maria Thayer, Angela Goethals, Devorah Rose, Nancy Ann Ridder
Director
Todd Solondz
ScreenplayTodd Solondz
MusicNathan Larsson, Isobel Campbell, Sarah Martin, Stuart Murdoch
CinematographyFrederick Elmes
Sound formatsDolby Digital, Dolby SR, Stereo
SoundtrackNot available
Made in2001
Produced byGood Machine, Killer Films, New Line Cinema

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Ratings
Scale (Max)20
South African Media
The MoviesiteIan Douglas11
Cape ArgusDerek Wilson10
Cape Times Wilhelm Snyman15
The StarAnn Hornaday12
Die BurgerGabriël Botma10
TygerburgerMariana Malan5
Sunday TimesBarry Ronge15
Total MovieNicky Dawson10
M-Net CinemagicBarry Ronge16
International Media
eye Weekly (Canada)Kim Linekin7
Box Office (USA)Lael Loewenstein10
ReelViews (USA)James Berardinelli10
Film Review (UK)James Cameron-Wilson10
Uncut (UK)Chris Roberts18
Empire (UK)Alan Morrison10
Internet (IMDB)483 Netizens14
Average .. 57%11

Visitor Comments
Ian Douglas: I see the American critics were not too impressed... However I found it as a wry look at contemporary society, with all its hypocrisy and twisted moralities. I could say more but I feel like I'm stating the obvious... unfortunately, the people who would most benefit from some thinking provoked by this movie -- teenagers -- are unlikely to watch it. More's the pity.


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