Three handicapped losers who form a band ask famous writer Dries to be their drummer. He joins the band and starts manipulating them.Three handicapped losers who form a band ask famous writer Dries to be their drummer. He joins the band and starts manipulating them.Three handicapped losers who form a band ask famous writer Dries to be their drummer. He joins the band and starts manipulating them.
- Awards
- 3 wins & 3 nominations
- Dries
- (as Dries Van Hegen)
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- TriviaRival band in the movie, "Harry Mulisch", is named after prominent Dutch writer Harry Mulisch.
- Quotes
Lio: Why do you want to play with that f**king band?
Dries: I don't really know. I think I want to step outside my happy world. Descend into the depths of stupidity, ugliness, obtuseness, unfaithfulness and fakeness. Latch onto the life of losers, but without belonging to that world - and in the knowledge that I can always return to my own world... and to you.
- Crazy creditsUsually credits move from bottom to top of the screen. In this film they move from top to bottom.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Quarto de espera (2009)
- Soundtracks2 Morro Morro Land
by Brian Chippendale, Brian Gibson
Performed by Lightning Bolt
Courtesy of Load Records
under license from Load Records
The first half is totally brilliant, original, refreshing and with a great soundtrack as the icing on the cake. In the second half, however, the movie loses some of its wit. It's there that you realize that "Ex Drummer" isn't really going anywhere, although it all started so promising. Characters just hit, abuse and swear at each other for no apparent reason and it all becomes a bit tiring.
The movie's ending is rather anti-climatic. The credits role and you're left puzzled, feeling that this could have made a much bigger impact on you, if the story had gone somewhere else. Maybe that's not the movie's fault but the fault of the novel, which it is based upon.
In the end "Ex Drummer" is a refreshing example of non-American film-making. It will leave you with your mouth open more than just a few times. Unfortunately, the beginning promises more than the rest of the movie can keep. Still, "Ex Drummer" is a must-see. One of the most unusual movies of the past ten years.
- Superunknovvn
- May 19, 2008
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- My Way Is the Highway
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- Gross worldwide
- $231,156