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Release Date
• USA: Mar 12, 2000
DVD Release Date
• R1: Oct 7, 2003
Official Website:
The Independent Website
MPAA Rating
Rated R for language, some violence and sexuality.
Running Time
1 hour, 35 minutes
Country USA
Studio Arrow Releasing
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Other Titles
• The Independent
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Genre: Comedy, Spoof, Black Comedy, Serial Killer
Plot: Morty Fineman (Jerry Stiller) is an independent schlock film producer-star-director with a problem. He's broke, and he can't finance his new film about a singing serial killer. The bank offers to buy his film library (a whopping 427 films!) but they're only willing to pay him $8 a pound. "We've weighed them," the bankers tell him, "and it's an impressive body of work." Fineman enlists the aid of his estranged daughter, Pamona (Janeane Garofalo) and his long-time assistant Ivan (Max Perlich). They try to rekindle interest in his films by getting Fineman a retrospective at the High Desert Film Festival in the remote town of Chaparral, Nevada, a haven for legal prostitution. Stephen Kessler co-wrote and directed THE INDEPENDENT, a hilarious but affectionate homage to B-movie visionaries like Roger Corman, Russ Meyer, and Herschell Gordon Lewis. The consistently funny film includes appearances by Ben Stiller, Andy Dick, Jonathan Katz, porn star Ginger Lynn Allen, and rock legend John Lydon. There are also cameos by Hollywood luminaries like Ron Howard and Peter Bogdanovich (who sing Morty’s praises), but the comedic highlights are the clips of Fineman’s hysterically awful films, including such wonders as "The Foxy Chocolate Robot" and "Bald Justice."
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 | Max Perlich
Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Blow, Cliffhanger |
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 | Roger Corman
Looney Tunes: Back in Action, The Second Civil War, A Decade Under the Influence |
 | Ron Howard
American Graffiti, Osmosis Jones, The Music Man |
 | Karen Black
House of 1000 Corpses, Family Plot, Five Easy Pieces |
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Ben Vaughn
Black Mask, Psycho Beach Party, Lewis & Clark & George |
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