Live! (2007)

Note des utilisateurs:

5.8/10   

Réalisateur:

Bill Guttentag

Scénariste (WGA):

Bill Guttentag (written by)

Release Date:

1 novembre 2007 (Netherlands)

Genre:

Comedie | Drame

Plot:

A mockumentary following an ambitious TV network executive trying to produce a controversial reality show where contestants play Russian Roulette.

Plot Keywords:

Russian Roulette | Ratings | Television | Bullet | Television Producer

Avis des utilisateurs:

mockumentary shocking and funny at the same time

Ensemble

Eva Mendes	...	Katy
David Krumholtz	...	Rex
Rob Brown	...	Byron
Katie Cassidy	...	Jewel
Jay Hernandez	...	Pablo
Eric Lively	...	Brad
Monet Mazur	...	Abalone
Jeffrey Dean Morgan	...	Rick
Danny Comden	...	Buck
Paul Michael Glaser	...	Network President
Missi Pyle	...	Plummy
Andre Braugher	...	Don
Charlotte Ross	...	Jennifer
Michelle Krusiec	...	Dylan
Mageina Tovah	...	Kelly

MPAA:

Rated R for some violent content, language and brief nudity.

Durée:

Argentina:96 min | France:96 min

Pays:

USA

Langue:

Anglais

Couleur:

Couleur

Classification:

Netherlands:12 | USA:R | France:U | Finland:K-13 | Singapore:NC-16 | UK:15 | Argentina:16

Emplacements De Pelliculage:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Atlas Entertainment

Goofs:

Factual errors: Early on, Katy mentions the decapitations of Louis XIV and Marie Antoinette. The first name should be Louis XVI, who died January 21, 1793. By then, Louis XIV (September 5, 1638 - September 1, 1715) had been dead for 77 years.

mockumentary shocking and funny at the same time

This fictional movie titled Live stars a really cute Eva Mendes for writer/director Bill Guttentag. It follows a mockumentary style feauturing Mendes as an ambitious network executive deciding to produce a show where contestants will play Russian roulette LIVE (that's where the title comes from) and for real. She thinks (rightly) it will be the most watched television program ever. The movie is social jab at all those reality programs based upon real life human emotions and drama to win audience figures (X-Factor and Big Brother for instance but in general all the programs that are now too many). Eva Mendes is impressive in her cynical role, but what also impresses is certainly the fact that everyone ends up being even more cynical than her, the network Counsel as well. Don't know whether this kind of show will take place sooner or later, that is mainly the massage of the story, but certainly this flick delivers a strong and effective message/warning for everyone. The movie is also somehow funny (another paradox) when showing audience's and TV staff's feelings immediately turning from desperation to a "the show must go on" mood after the two deaths.