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| Category | Comedies DVDs, Dramas Movies, Families Videos, Psychodrama, Filmmakers, Authors | | Starring | John Goodman, Paul Giamatti, Selma Blair, Mark Webber, Xander Berkeley, Julie Hagerty, Lupe Ontiveros, Franka Potente, Robert Wisdom, Aleksa Palladino, Noah Fleiss, Leo Fitzpatrick, Jonathan Osser, Mike Schank | | Director | Todd Solondz | | Cameo | Conan O'Brien | | Composer | Nathan Larson | | Director of Photography | Frederick Elmes | | Editor | Alan Oxman | | Executive Producer | David Linde | | Music Performer(s) | Belle and Sebastian | | Producer | Ted Hope, Christine Vachon | | Production Designer | James Chinlund
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John Goodman, Julie Hagerty, Lupe Ontiveros, Paul Giamatti, Robert Wisdom, Selma Blair - Director: Todd Solondz What do you get when you mix an emotionally needy college student with a slacker named Scooby and a dysfunctional family man? Yep, you guessed it - another Todd Solondz masterpiece. This film is comprised of two separate stories set against the terrain of college and high school, past and present. Following the paths of its young hopeful/troubled characters, it explores issues of sex, race, celebrity and exploitation. "Fiction" - Set on a college campus circa 1985, the first part of Storytelling, entitled "Fiction," traces the complicated relationships bet Director Todd Solondz (WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE, HAPPINESS) presents this characteristically bleak and darkly comic drama in two distinct parts. The first story, "Fiction" stars Selma Blair as Vi, a confused university student who engages in an impulsive tryst with her Pulitzer Prize-winning professor (Robert Wisdom) after arguing with her cerebral palsy-afflicted boyfriend (Leo Fitzpatrick). The second (and longer) tale, "Non-Fiction," stars Paul Giamatti as Toby, a down-on-his-luck documentary filmmaker who turns his camera on Scooby (Mark Webber), an unmotivated teenager, and his suburban New Jersey family.
At times even more controversial and confrontational than Solondz's previous films, STORYTELLING bluntly addresses issues such as race, sex, physical impairment, education, censorship, and exploitation, while not-so-subtly referencing and parodying both AMERICAN BEAUTY and AMERICAN MOVIE (whose own Mike Schank appears in the film). Cannily aware of both his admirers and detractors, Solondz has taken the intriguing step of criticizing his own work within the creative confines of the two stories. As with HAPPINESS, the director has assembled an impressive ensemble cast that also includes John Goodman, Julie Hagerty, Franka Potente, and Lupe Ontiveros. As a counterpoint to the often-glum proceedings, a bright, airy soundtrack is provided Belle and Sebastian and songwriter Nathan Larson. IN THEATRES: JANUARY 25, 2002 (LIMITED)
FEBRUARY 8, 2002 (WIDER) Storytelling Reviews: "...[Blair gives] a riveting performance..."
-- Mike Clark, USA Today "...STORYTELLING is funnily extreme and extremely funny..."
-- Richard Falcon, Sight and Sound "...Solondz creates a unique landscape of suburban-bred misery, a bleak vista that continually forces viewers to shift sympathies and antipathies..."
-- Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly "...The kids in the family -- expertly played by Jonathan Osser, Noah Fleiss and Mark Webber -- emerge as memorable characters..."
-- Stephen Farber, Movieline's Hollywood Life "...STORYTELLING is a virtuoso work in every aspect in which Solondz shakes a fist and the inescapability of human limitations colliding with the perversity of fate..."
-- Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times "...Solondz forces us to consider the unthinkable, the unacceptable, the unmentionable, challenging us to decide what we think..."
-- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
This is the only Jonathan Osser video. Storytelling | List Price | $24.98 (You save $4.63) | | Studio | Warner Home Video | | Orig Year | 2002 | | DVD Encoding | Region 1 | | All Time Sales Rank |  8573  | | CD Universe Part number | 3907452 | | Catalog number | 5544 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Jul 16, 2002 | | Rating | R (MPAA) | | Rating Reason | strong sexual content, language, and some drug use | | Running Time | 87 Minutes | | Movie Details | Color |
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Storytelling DVD Region 1
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