Other Titles • Freddy Got Fingered • The Tom Green Movie
Synopses for Freddy Got Fingered (2001)
1.
Tom Green is Gord Brody, a 28 year old full time slacker / part-time animator wanna-be who wants to crack into the cutthroat world of animation in Hollywood. His frustrated father Jim (Rip Torn) just wants his son to leave the basement and get a job. So starts a head to head battle between father and son: Will Gord crack and give in to his dad's wishes? Or will his father give in and support his son's dream?
In the midst of fighting with his dad, being kind to wildlife and falling in love with a sexually advanced rocket scientist in a wheelchair (Marisa Coughlan). Gord struggles to be true to himself and to follow his dreams.
(22 votes)
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Self-made celebrity and outlaw of gross-out comedy, Tom Green (of MTV's TOM GREEN SHOW) makes the leap to the big screen with the outrageous semi-autobiographical FREDDY GOT FINGERED. Starring as Gord Brody, a slacker fast-approaching 30, yet still living in his father's basement, Green is his usual obtusely hilarious, polymorphously perverse self. Physical comedy ascends to the realm of extreme performance art as Brody's unachievable lifelong dream to become an animator causes him to clash with his hardened father (played by the steely and equally funny Rip Torn.) A furtive love affair with a wheelchair-bound rocket scientist and the disturbing hijinks of a troublesome younger brother named Freddy form the core of the sublimely stupid plot that serves mainly as a platform from which Green launches his incredible and often irrational comedic fare. Testing the limits of comedy, Green's deceptively moronic film does, at times, achieve a level of visual and conceptual cleverness, crafting ironic and primordial images from jokes on human folly.
(20 votes)
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From amorous interludes with farm animals to scuba diving in a toilet, MTV star Tom Green blows away the boundaries of good taste in Freddy Got Fingered. Featuring "some of the funniest scenes in memory" (Seattle Times), this truly outrageous comedy is a movie you have to see to believe.
(19 votes)
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MTV's maniacal prankster, Tom Green, takes his surreal nonsense to the movies in Freddy Got Fingered. Playing a Portland, Oregon, goofball who dreams of becoming an animator, Green barely stitches together a rudimentary plot, but he does pile on the kind of agonizing nonsense that is his stock-in-trade: chewing through an umbilical cord, licking somebody's compound fracture, and presenting a sausage-and-keyboard contraption that surely would have delighted early-20th-century Dadaists. Predictably, Green loses something in the transition from television's freeform, microscopic glare to the more formal demands of cinema, and the result isn't pretty. The trouble is, this stuff is largely unsuitable for the broad scope of a movie and, in contrast to the guerrilla tactics of Green's TV show, is prefabricated for the lumbering process of filmmaking. That, in turn, diminishes the effectiveness of Green's grenade-throwing humor and makes Freddy Got Fingered something of a desperate experience. --Tom Keogh
(20 votes)
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