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Overnight

There's more than one way to shoot yourself

2003 · 1h 22m · R Documentary
Directed by Mark Brian Smith

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Overview

Alternately hilarious and horrifying, Overnight chronicles one man's misadventures of making a Hollywood movie. It starts out as a rags to riches story as Troy Duffy, a Boston-bred bartender, sells his first screenplay for The Boondock Saints.

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78%
Tomatometer
Fresh

Tony Montana and Mark Brian Smith's acidic, vitriolic takedown of Duffy boasts the abrasive intensity of a migraine headache and the depth and scope of a bona fide American tragedy.

Nathan Rabin, AV Club
Fresh

A portrait of Hollywood hubris extraordinaire.

David Fear, Time Out New York
Fresh

[An] unflinching depiction of a would-be Tarantino turning himself into chopped liver.

Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Fresh

A compulsive, cautionary tale about a man whose self-trumpeted 'deep cesspool of creativity' seems destined to remain undredged.

Ben Walters, Time Out
Fresh

The story of the neither late nor great Troy Duffy would make the perfect film-school graduation gift.

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel

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