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Warner Bros. Pictures
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Release Date: Jan 25, 2002
Running Time: 87 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
synopsis
Two stories set in two eras against the comical terrain of college and high school, past and present--exploring issues of sex, race, celebrity and exploitation. The first story: On a college campus in the mid-80s, a white female writing student has an emotional experience with her black, male writing teacher. The second story: In 2000, Toby Oxman is a 30-year-old wannabe celebrity and a documentary filmmaker. He sets out to document the Livingstons, an affluent suburban family raising three boys. The eldest is Scooby, a goofy, uninspired high school senior who aspires to be the next Conan O'Brien but whose parents are desperate for him to attend college in the fall. Brady, his 16-year-old brother, is the school's handsome and popular football star. When Brady is injured by another student during a football game, friends and family are forced to take stock of their values and re-evaluate their lives.
cast + crew
Director
2nd unit director
Vi
Marcus
Mr Gary Scott
Toby Oxman
Mike
Mr DeMarco
Scooby Livingston
Marty Livingston
Fern Livingston
Brady Livingston
screenplay
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Producer
Executive Producer
Executive Producer
Executive Producer
reviews
January 17, 2002
Todd Solondz's Storytelling opens on January 25th, and we all know that nothing really good - foreign-language films excepted - opens in January. January is where the major studios dump their mistakes. Mandy Moore in A Walk to Remember and Cuba Gooding Jr. in Snow Dogs - that's what opens in January. But in Storytelling we have a movie that advances the career of a demonstrably gifted filmmaker, a fearlessly funny movie whose laughs draw blood, a bracingly provocative movie that won't apologize…
Storytelling tells two unrelated stories. One observes creative writing students and their amorous adventures. In the longer episode, an aspiring documentary filmmaker follows the ups and mostly downs of a dysfunctional suburban family. Story In the first story, a shorter piece titled Fiction, collegians Vi and Marcus are creative-writing students having an affair. In class, Marcus reads the story that reveals the affair and the joy it brings him, but his black professor, Mr. Scott, minces no… |
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