Living in Oblivion
Overview
A director of a low-budget independent film (Steve Buscemi) faces every conceivable setback during one chaotic day of filming in this brilliant and accurate satire. His glamour-boy star (James LeGros) seduces half the crew, his insane mother returns from the asylum, his cinematographer and assistant director have a fierce lovers' spat, and the dwarf he hired to surrealize a dream sequence rebels. Plus, the fog machine keeps acting up. Winner of the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the Sundance Film Festival.
Awards:
Main Cast & Crew:
Tom DiCillo - Director
Steve Buscemi
Catherine Keener
Dermot Mulroney
Peter Dinklage
Kevin Corrigan
Danielle von Zerneck
James LeGros
Rica Martens
Robert Wightman
Hilary Gilford
Details
- Format: Blu-ray (With DVD, Anniversary Edition, 2 Pack, Widescreen)
- Run Time: 90
- Color Format: Color
- UPC: 826663163377
- Genre: DRAMA
- Rating: R (MPAA)
- Release Date: November 2015
Movie Reviews
Synopsis:
Filmmaker Nick Reve has only one thing on his mind: completing his low-budget, independent film. That may sound simple, but every day is a challenge. Take this morning, for example, which has already gotten off to a terrible start. First, his star players, egotistical heart-throb Chad Palomino and insecure but gifted Nicole, aren't getting along. It seems they haven't recovered from their bad one-night stand. Nick's tough assistant director Wanda has just broken it off with her cameraman beau Wolf, so he's in a rotten mood, too. And the technicians can't get the equipment working. To top it all off, Nick's mentally impaired mother has escaped from her rest home and walked onto the set.
It's one of those days where Murphy's Law reigns supreme... and anything can happen next.
Notes:
The clashes between Steve Buscemi and James LeGros's characters in the film are supposedly based on LeGros's experiences with an actor he had worked with previously.
Winner of the 1995 Sundance Film Festival Screenwriters Award.
Shown at the 1995 New Directors/New Films series in New York City.
A JDI and Lemon Sky production.
Additional cast: Peter Dinklage (Tito).
Reviews:
"...An irresistible blend of mirth and malice....The cast is comic perfection..." - 07/13/1995 Rolling Stone, p.116
"...DiCillo's love of moviemaking...extends...over everything..." -- Rating: A- - 02/16/1996 Entertainment Weekly, p.72
"An amusing, cunningly structured look at the perils of film production, LIVING IN OBLIVION is an inside joke with a generosity of heart and humor..." - 01/30/1995 Variety
"...A clever and consistently funny inside-movies comedy....OBLIVION is an intricately constructed film-within-a-film..." - 07/21/1995 Los Angeles Times, p.F4
"...DiCillo shows that what happens around a movie can often be funnier than the actual film..." - 08/25/1995 Chicago Sun-Times, p.38
5 stars out of 5 -- "It remains perhaps the most honest, insightful film about filmmaking ever..." - 02/01/2008 Uncut, p.111
"Small, smart and still exquisitely funny, LIVING IN OBLIVION is the pick of the offbeat comedies DiCillo has been popping out since the mid-1990s..." - 03/01/2008 Sight and Sound, p.94
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