Screwed (film)

Screwed (film)

Infobox Film
name = Screwed


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director = Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski
producer = Robert Simonds
writer = Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski
narrator =
starring = Norm Macdonald
Dave Chappelle
Elaine Stritch
Danny DeVito
Daniel Benzali
Sarah Silverman
Sherman Helmsley
Lochlyn Munro
music = Michel Colombier
cinematography = Robert Brinkmann
editing =
distributor = Universal Studios
released = flagicon|USA May 12 2000
runtime = 81 min.
country = USA
language = English
budget =
gross = $6,982,680
preceded_by =
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amg_id = 1:181133
imdb_id = 0156323

"Screwed" is a 2000 comedy film starring Norm Macdonald and Dave Chappelle, and written and directed by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski.

The film, released by Universal Studios, is rated PG-13 (in the United States) for crude and sex-related humor, nudity, language, some violence and brief drug content.

The film also stars Elaine Stritch, Danny DeVito, Daniel Benzali, Sarah Silverman, and Sherman Helmsley.

It went through a number of title changes before the producers finally settled on "Screwed"; preliminary titles included "Pittsburgh" (the name of the Pennsylvania city in which the film takes place) and also "Ballbusted" (due to Stritch's character's harshness exhibited throughout the movie; at one point, Chappelle's character refers to her as a "ballbuster").

Plot summary

Willard (Macdonald) is an overworked, underpaid chauffeur who kidnaps his employer's dog when she refuses to buy him a new uniform. The dog is held for a $1,000,000 ransom, but the plan to get the money fails. Teaming up with Rusty (Chappelle), his best friend from the local chicken shack, the chauffeur concocts a new scheme, which calls for Willard to mug his boss as she goes to drop off the ransom money, and to have a dead body left behind dressed as Willard to throw off the police.

The plan goes wrong, however, when Willard succeeds in getting the money, only to lose it to two small children. Willard is then found by the police and sent to a hospital, as the children have soundly brutalized him. The police then find the dead body that was supposed to take the place of Willard as he made his getaway. In the next scene one of the kid's mother shows up and returns the briefcase of money. Overexcited and believing that the money is still in the case, Willard and Rusty plan to go on a long vacation only to find that the brief case was filled with newspaper and cabbage.

The police go after the coroner accomplice Grover (DeVito), who goes on a rampage (kidnapping Willard's employer) while waiting for the share of money Willard promised him. Willard goes to Grover and confronts his employer finding out that the money was actually in the briefcase and was left to her friend to take it to the kidnapper.

Presidential references

The movie features character names meant to be spoofs of the names of former U.S. presidents. These include the butler Willard Fillmore (Millard Fillmore), his sidekick Rusty P. Hayes (Rutherford B. Hayes), and their coroner accomplice Grover Cleaver (Grover Cleveland). Other not-so-subtle references to presidential history are a character named Hillary and others with the last names Oswald and Dewey. The name of the wealthy piemaker who serves as Willard's boss, Mrs Crock, is also a spoof of the famous General Mills pie company Betty Crocker

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