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Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 12/08/2009 Run time: 83 minutes Rating: Pg13
Pity Marc Pease: it's 10 years since high school, and he's still chasing the dream. He believes in the possibilities for his a cappella octet (which is now down to four people), and he still craves the approval of his old drama teacher, Mr. Gribble, one of those tinhorn potentates who swagger cluelessly through their little kingdoms. Marc is haunted by his onstage meltdown during his senior-year production of The Wiz, and Mr. Gribble remembers it, too--maybe that's why he steers clear of his former protégé. These are the ingredients of
Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 12/08/2009 Run time: 83 minutes Rating: Pg13
Pity Marc Pease: it's 10 years since high school, and he's still chasing the dream. He believes in the possibilities for his a cappella octet (which is now down to four people), and he still craves the approval of his old drama teacher, Mr. Gribble, one of those tinhorn potentates who swagger cluelessly through their little kingdoms. Marc is haunted by his onstage meltdown during his senior-year production of The Wiz, and Mr. Gribble remembers it, too--maybe that's why he steers clear of his former protégé. These are the ingredients of The Marc Pease Experience, a sour-patch comedy that hands a welcome lead role to Jason Schwartzman as Marc (conjuring up images of his Rushmore character 10 years after graduation, perhaps) and provides Ben Stiller with a deliciously rotten character part in Mr. Gribble. All the action unfolds in the course of a single day, the opening of the new Gribble revival of The Wiz, in which Marc's girlfriend Meg (Anna Kendrick) has a small role. This impending train wreck affords some funny moments, and credit director Todd Louiso and screenwriter Jacob Koskoff with adding a layer of Election-style acid to the project, especially where Meg is concerned. But while Schwartzman is more than capable (the performances of the "Meridian 8"--Marc refuses to change the name of his group, despite the losses in personnel--are especially amusing) and Stiller is wicked, the movie doesn't fully follow through with its convictions, and goes completely soft toward the end. --Robert Horton
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Manufacturer: Paramount
Release date: 8 December 2009
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0097363517542 UPC: 097363517542
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