- One Night at McCool's
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One Night at McCool's
Film posterDirected by Harald Zwart Produced by Michael Douglas
Allison Lyon Segan
Veslemoey Ruud Zwart
Whitney GreenWritten by Stan Seidel Starring Liv Tyler
Matt Dillon
Paul Reiser
John Goodman
Michael Douglas
Andrew Dice ClayMusic by Marc Shaiman Cinematography Karl Walter Lindenlaub Editing by Bruce Cannon Distributed by Focus Features
(Universal Pictures)Release date(s) April 27, 2001 Running time 93 minutes Country United States Language English Budget $18,000,000 Box office $14,473,370 One Night at McCool's is a 2001 American dark comedy/neo-noir film, directed by Harald Zwart and starring Liv Tyler, Matt Dillon, Michael Douglas, John Goodman, Paul Reiser, Reba McEntire and Andrew Dice Clay.
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Plot
The majority of the film consists of Dillon, Goodman and Reiser's characters reciting their separate lovesick accounts of their experiences with Tyler's seductress character, each narrating over what they consider to be the real version of the recent events. Scenes are often re-enacted twice, with different accounts contradicting each other for comedic effect. For example, when Goodman's detective character is narrating, he acts as if he were a completely fair, by-the-book police officer, and Dillon is painted as a slimy, macho, abusive thug. When Dillon is telling the story, he is the innocent victim and Goodman is shown as a suspicious, prying, hard-nosed cop; Reiser's character is convinced that every woman is in love with him, and during his version of the tale, everyone acts accordingly.
Production
Writer Stan Seidel, who died prior to the film's release, drew much of the film's material from his days as a bartender at Humphrey's, a college bar located across the street from Saint Louis University in St. Louis, Missouri.
Reception
The film garnered mixed to poor reviews (Rotten Tomatoes rated it at 33%), with Roger Ebert saying that the film "is so busy with its crosscut structure and its interlocking stories that it never really gives us anyone to identify with" but that "it has a lot of fun being a near miss."[1]
References
- ^ Ebert, Roger (2001-04-27). "One Night At Mccool's". rogerebert.Com. http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20010427/REVIEWS/104270302/1023. Retrieved 2007-08-09.
External links
- One Night at McCool's at the Internet Movie Database
- One Night at McCool's at AllRovi
- One Night at McCool's at Rotten Tomatoes
- One Night at McCool's at Box Office Mojo
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