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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 0794043554339
Label: New Line Home Video
Manufacturer: New Line Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: New Line Home Video
Release Date: January 14, 2003
Running Time: 87 minutes
Sales Rank: 37986
Studio: New Line Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2002
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Todd Solondz, director of the acclaimed Welcome to the Dollhouse and the controversial Happiness, continues pushing the envelope of social decorum with the merciless and casually cruel Storytelling, his most ruthless satire of suburban complacency. Broken into two unrelated chapters, 'Fiction' follows college girl Selma Blair through a degrading encounter with her resentful writing teacher (Robert Wisdom), while the more sprawling and scattershot 'Non-Fiction' circles around the mutual exploitation of a fumbling documentary filmmaker (Paul Giamatti doing a near-parody of director Solondz) and his clueless subject, a suburban high school slacker named Scooby (Mark Webber). The squirmy laughs are laced with humiliation and the satire is acidic and cynical; in the world of Solondz, victims and victimizers alike are petty, selfish, vindictive, and thoughtless, and empathy is strictly rationed. Though sharply written and well directed, this misanthropic vision is strictly for daring filmgoers and Solondz fans. --Sean Axmaker
Customer Reviews Average Rating: 
Rating:  - This movie Stinks!
Don't even waste your time!! The movie made NO sense what-so-ever to me!! Its a dark comedy....do what???? I did not laugh NOT once!! Not even smile... I just want to tell you--- it sucks! That is all.
Rating:  - ...storytelling
Well. Not a film that I would recommend to anyone except serious film buffs who can stomach some pretty rough material. I barely made it through one scene...however, it's tamer than Solondz's previous films.
One can sense that Solondz is merely attacking his critics, and is using satire to do so. He pulls no punches, and as usual, remains as cynical as ever. The performances are great all around. The film is split into two parts, "Fiction" and "Non-fiction", which seem unrelated at ... Read More
Rating: - Trite stories told badly
The purpose of this review is to save someone 87 minutes of life. Spend that time elsewhere than with this film.
Before writing this review, I required myself to read all 68 previous reviews of the film posted on [...]. I usually allow myself this privilege only after I write a review. I want to record what I need to say before I allow others their fair say. I want to trust what I think, what I feel; I no longer want others--be they scholars or celebrities or athletes or family or ... Read More
Rating: - Everyone always has a story to tell.
Todd Solondz's `Welcome to the Dollhouse' showed comic/absurd promise; his masturbation scene in `Happiness' overstepped the boundary of film taste but got everyone's attention. While I didn't enjoy "Storytelling" as much as I did the Director's two previous films, "Happiness" and "Welcome to The Dollhouse," Solondz continues to amaze with his depictions of just how awkward true life really is. As always, he masterfully shows the oft times tactless, cynical, transparent motivations of everyday suburban ... Read More
Rating:  - Different and disturbing
Storytelling is another highly enjoyable, if typically disturbing work from the New York director Todd Solondz.His films, from his first breakthrough `Welcome to the Dollhouse' to the recent `Palindromes', have all been thoughtful and controversial dark comedies.In my view, the comedic moments have become a little scarcer and less funny in his last two films (this one and Pallindromes), but the philosophical ruminations have been taken to another level.Here, as in Pallindromes, the director explores ... Read More
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