Documentary about an aspiring filmmaker's attempts to finance his dream project by finally completing the low-budget horror film he abandoned years before.Documentary about an aspiring filmmaker's attempts to finance his dream project by finally completing the low-budget horror film he abandoned years before.Documentary about an aspiring filmmaker's attempts to finance his dream project by finally completing the low-budget horror film he abandoned years before.
- Awards
- 6 wins & 6 nominations
Bill Borchardt
- Mark's Uncle
- (as Uncle Bill)
- …
Billy Crystal
- Academy Awards EmCee
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaIn the elevator sequence that is briefly shown as part of the movie Coven (1997), the doctors are wearing driver's licenses on their lab coats instead of hospital staff ID badges.
- Quotes
Mark Borchardt: 'Your AT&T Universal Card has arrived"? Oh God, kick-fucking-ass, I got a Master Card. I don't believe it, man. Life is kinda cool sometimes.
- SoundtracksMr. Bojangles
Written by Jerry Jeff Walker
Performed by Mike Schank
used by permission of Warner/Chappell Music
Featured review
Just watched it again.
I just watched this again the other night. It's probably the ninth or tenth time I've seen it, and I think it gets better every time. Contrary to what some people are saying, I don't think the makers of this film are laughing at and ridiculing Mark. Sure, some of the humor in the film is of the car-crash can't look away variety, but I feel underneath that they really admire the guy and his dogged tenacity. Another thing is I think Mark does show some skill as a director. Remember he has zero money shooting this stuff, and Coven was conceived as a money-making venture so he could make Northwestern. I think some of the samples they were showing from Northwestern actually looked very good. Now I don't think Mark writes the best dialogue in the world, but looking just at his photographic eye I'd say if the guy had any kind of schooling he might be shooting movies for someone right now. And finally, I think some of the people making negative comments about this movie need to look in the mirror and think about themselves a bit. OK, you don't like the movie, that's fine. But I've seen enough smug, superior, comments on here to make me want to puke. I love how as long as you're a poor, lower middle-class white in America people love to throw around terms like "white trash", "redneck", and other such pleasantries. I believe some scribe from Orange County at the beginning of the reviews even called them "inferior". I'm sure most of the people making the comments consider themselves liberals too; as if they have any concept of what that word means.
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- Also known as
- American Movie: The Making of Northwestern
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $1,165,795
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $20,260
- Nov 7, 1999
- Gross worldwide
- $1,166,245
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