A famous Latin actor loses his wife and job but hopes he can still ride on his sitcom fame. However, when he appears at the grand opening of a Kmart, his dreams are dashed when most of his f... Read allA famous Latin actor loses his wife and job but hopes he can still ride on his sitcom fame. However, when he appears at the grand opening of a Kmart, his dreams are dashed when most of his fans are stolen by a maniacal upstart pretty-boy.A famous Latin actor loses his wife and job but hopes he can still ride on his sitcom fame. However, when he appears at the grand opening of a Kmart, his dreams are dashed when most of his fans are stolen by a maniacal upstart pretty-boy.
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Mary-Pat Green
- Sandwich Woman
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Dona Hardy
- Old Woman
- (as Donna Hardy)
Lysa Heslov
- Lysa
- (as Lysa Hayland)
Josh Marchette
- Rick
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Great Movie!
I am a big fan of independent movies (I don't like those big budget Hollywood movies), and this one was AWESOME!! Not only was the cast great in it, but the writing was very original. This movie will make you laugh and cry - it's that good.
No bargain here.
The plot for this movie would make a good 10 minute sketch on SNL. It doesn't stretch to the playing time of the movie. The writing is periodically clever and sometimes amusing, but never really funny.
I think the goal was to make something like Office Space about peripheral actors on a non-sensational sitcom. But the execution isn't there. The movie tries to be serious at times but would have been better with a lighter subplot.
The movie takes the usual "everything outside Hollywood is corny and hick" attitude. K-mart, Houston -- you know, real rubes.
The only remotely developed characters are the main character (played by Enrique Suarez) and the Houston limo driver played by Michael Lerner. The latter is excellent in his role. Meanwhile, Martin Mull is very weak in a brief role as a flight attendant.
If someone forces you to watch the movie you should resist, but not so much that you might hurt yourself. It's not perfectly terrible, either.
I think the goal was to make something like Office Space about peripheral actors on a non-sensational sitcom. But the execution isn't there. The movie tries to be serious at times but would have been better with a lighter subplot.
The movie takes the usual "everything outside Hollywood is corny and hick" attitude. K-mart, Houston -- you know, real rubes.
The only remotely developed characters are the main character (played by Enrique Suarez) and the Houston limo driver played by Michael Lerner. The latter is excellent in his role. Meanwhile, Martin Mull is very weak in a brief role as a flight attendant.
If someone forces you to watch the movie you should resist, but not so much that you might hurt yourself. It's not perfectly terrible, either.
worse than a blue-light special
Attention shoppers still to this day is been my lowest ranking of a movie ever. It doesn't even deserve a star. I use it as the basis of judging every movie that I see for whether it could possibly be worse than this. The height of the plot of this movie is a guy sitting at a card table at an empty k-mart. waiting to sign autographs. So far no one has beat it.Don't waste your time on this one even if your desperate, staring at the wall would be better. I think instead of a movie k-mart was using it as some sick advertising ploy to see how many people they could get to respond although they were most likely all in complaint. save your money for some other blue light special. at this rate, casey affleck's performance in this film is even worse than, dare I say it, his brother's in gigli. not that seen that movie...
European style movie
Beautiful 'film noir'. I was pleasantly surprised. Decent and inspired acting and a moving Carbonell at the end -driving back to the airport- with a wonderful (as always) Michael Lerned.
With eye to detail: the plastic bag where the table cloth was wrapped in, is just visible in two more scenes before it gets a place in Nestor's luggage (I like those details very much, it's shows respect by the director). The pace is just great: very slowly and thus giving me time to enjoy the weird and strange atmosphere. A very un-American movie; perhaps that's why it's more popular in Europe? Hope Carbonell finds more inspiration (and money!) to make more of these beauties.
With eye to detail: the plastic bag where the table cloth was wrapped in, is just visible in two more scenes before it gets a place in Nestor's luggage (I like those details very much, it's shows respect by the director). The pace is just great: very slowly and thus giving me time to enjoy the weird and strange atmosphere. A very un-American movie; perhaps that's why it's more popular in Europe? Hope Carbonell finds more inspiration (and money!) to make more of these beauties.
Mildly amusing, relatively painless
The movie is mildly amusing. The opening is pretty cute with the supposed home invasion. Rather offbeat, it should be watched just for a different viewpoint in film. Some fashion and pop culture trends at the start of the millennium can be viewed in this film, and is worth viewing for that reason alone. You can't help but feel for the main character. He is a genuinely nice guy trying to do his best. He is a talented individual that should get more roles. The movie is not bad, over all. It is an amusing way to view the inside of a K-mart. The customers are not realistic and they almost overcamp their roles. But the lead actor remains believable throughout.
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