Multitalented comedian Martin Short brings his character Jiminy Glick, the Butte, Montana entertainment television reporter, to the big screen in the comedy JIMINY GLICK IN LALAWOOD. A little sweaty and a lot excitable, Jiminy's finally headed to the big time: the Toronto Film Festival. With his wife Dixie (Jan Hooks) and twin sons Matthew and Modine in tow, Jiminy is poised to realize his celebrity-worshipping dreams by becoming an industry player. After he scores an interview with reclusive, bad-boy actor Ben DiCarlo (Corey Pearson), Jiminy is catapulted to sudden fame and everyone wants in on the action. A famous actress on the decline, Miranda Coolidge (Elizabeth Perkins), seeks Jiminy out, but their new friendship appears to have a deadly result. Can gentle journalist Glick have a hidden violent side?
Short, who co-wrote this film with Paul Flaherty and Michael Short, first introduced Jiminy Glick via his Comedy Central television program PRIMETIME GLICK. Here, in a feature-length film, Jiminy has ample room to skewer the pervasive culture of celebrity worship while tying in knowledge of movies and Hollywood history. Staying with his family in a creepy hotel far from the glitterati, with director David Lynch (Short again) as a quasi-guide and narrator, Jiminy navigates the treacherous waters of fame with hilarious results.
DVD Features:
Keep Case
Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
Subtitles - English - Closed Captioning
Subtitles - French, Spanish - Optional
Additional Release Material:
Alternate Scenes: Deleted Scenes
Audio Commentary:
1. Martin Short - Creator, Screenwriter, and Star, Mike Flaherty - Screenwriter
2. Vadim Jean - Director
Executive Producer
Norm Waitt: Executive Producer, MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING (2002)
Executive Producer
Scott Niemeyer: Executive Producer, WHITE NOISE (2004)
Director of Photography
Mike J. Fox: Director of Photography, JIMINY GLICK IN LALAWOOD (2005)
Review 1:
"In his curdled-butterball way, Jiminy Gilick may be the most acidic showbiz send-up since Andy Kaufman's Tony Clifton."
Source: Entertainment Weekly
p.62 05/13/2005
Review 2:
"There are plenty of laughs amid the bevy of star cameos..."
Source: USA Today
p.6E 05/06/2005
Review 3:
"In the funniest segments, Jiminy is his familiar ebullient self, springing into action as a hysterical bug-eyed interviewer grilling every celebrity who crosses his path..."
Source: New York Times
p.E28 05/06/2005
Review 4:
"[A] giddy, gassy piece of lunatic fluff that recounts Jiminy's rise to fame..."
Source: Los Angeles Times
p.E6 05/06/2005