Self-made celebrity and outlaw of gross-out comedy, Tom Green (of MTV's TOM GREEN SHOW) makes the leap to the big screen with the outrageous semi-autobiographical FREDDY GOT FINGERED. Starring as Gord Brody, a slacker fast-approaching 30, yet still living in his father's basement, Green is his usual obtusely hilarious, polymorphously perverse self. Physical comedy ascends to the realm of extreme performance art as Brody's unachievable lifelong dream to become an animator causes him to clash with his hardened father (played by the steely and equally funny Rip Torn.) A furtive love affair with a wheelchair-bound rocket scientist and the disturbing hijinks of a troublesome younger brother named Freddy form the core of the sublimely stupid plot that serves mainly as a platform from which Green launches his incredible and often irrational comedic fare. Testing the limits of comedy, Green's deceptively moronic film does, at times, achieve a level of visual and conceptual cleverness, crafting ironic and primordial images from jokes on human folly.
DVD Features:
Region 1
Keep Case
Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85
Single Side - Dual Layer
Audio:
Digital Surround 5.1 - English
Dolby Surround - English, French
Additional Release Material:
Alternate Audio Track - Audience Laugh Track
Audio Commentary - 1. Tom Green - Director/Star
2. Rip Torn, Harland Williams, Melissa Coughlan - Stars (Specific Scenes)
Behind the Scenes - Making of FREDDY GOT FINGERED
Deleted Scenes
Trailers - 1. Original Theatrical Trailer
2. TV Spots
Executive Producer
Arnon Milchan: Producer
Director of Photography
Mark Irwin: Director of Photography
Review 1:
"...[Green stages] his gross-outs with a demented but unmistakable integrity..."
Source: New York Times
p.E18 04/20/2001
Review 2:
"...The gross-out routines arrive like a medley of Green's greatest hits..."
Source: Rolling Stone
p.93-4 05/10/2001