This is a documentary about Troy Duffy, a Los Angeles bartender who sold his first script for $1M to Miramax that launched him as a filmmaker and his band to superstardom...except it didn't and this documentary chronicles the rise and crash and burn of this writer/director/musician in Hollywood.
The story: the movie starts and Duffy has just sold his first script to Miramax in a $1M deal where Harvey Winestein evens says he'll buy him the bar he works at. He will get to direct the movie and his band will ecord the sound track. But then things go wrong. His in-your-face attitude and ego cause clashes with everyone around him -- with Miramax executives, with his agents, and finally with his friends and family. Eventually he is able to make his movie, only to take it to the Cannes Film Festival only to see it go unsold to distributors.
Okay, well, that's it. Not much to add about the movie. It is a fascinating look at at a young man who gets a big break and how everything falls apart. I actually don't think his story is that different from a lot of people who get a break in Hollywood only to see it not progress the way they wanted. One thing left out (because the documentary was finished in 2004) was that the movie, THE BOONDOCK SAINTS, did well enough on home video that he got to make a sequel. So maybe there's a little more hope for him than the movie implies...not that he necessarily deserves it.
*** RECOMMEND ****
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