- Saving Silverman
Infobox Film
name = Saving Silverman
caption =
director =Dennis Dugan
writer = Hank Nelken
Greg DePaul
starring =Steve Zahn
Jack BlackJason Biggs Amanda Peet
producer =Bruce Berman
Warren Carr
Bernie Goldmann
Brad Luff
Neal H. Moritz
Bill Whitten
Peter Ziegler
distributor=Columbia Pictures
budget =
released=February 9 ,2001
runtime = 90 minutes
language = English
amg_id =
imdb_id = 0239948|"Saving Silverman" is a 2001
comedy film , directed byDennis Dugan . It starsSteve Zahn , Jack Black,Jason Biggs (as the eponymous "Darren Silverman"),Amanda Peet ,Amanda Detmer andR Lee Ermey .Neil Diamond has a cameo role playing himself.Outside
North America , the film was titled "Evil Woman".Plot
Darren Silverman (Biggs), Wayne Lefessier (Zahn) and J.D. McNugent (Black), best friends since fifth grade and
Neil Diamond fans throughout, form acover band called "Diamonds in the Rough". After a performance, relaxing at a bar, Darren is introduced to the beautiful but domineering psychologist Judith Fessbeggler (Peet). Six weeks into their relationship Judith is still making Darren watch her change clothes, and though sleeping together produces satisfaction for her, Darren gets nothing but a sore jaw.After a disastrous visit to Darren's friends, Judith forbids him to see them anymore (threatening to take away his sexual privileges). Shocked by her further demands that Darren quit the band, get gluteal implants, burn his Neil Diamond albums, wax her legs, and attend relationship counseling under her care, Wayne and J.D. decide to save Silverman from her by attempting to bribe her, arm wrestle her, and shock her with fake photos of Darren cheating, all to no avail.
Wayne and J.D. redouble their efforts by trying to reunite Darren with his "one and only", Sandy Perkus (Detmer), when she comes to town to take her final vows as a nun. When Darren and Judith announce their engagement, they kidnap Judith then fake her death by planting a dug-up corpse in her car, which they propel over a cliff to a fiery doom. Wayne and J.D. then visit Coach Norton (Ermey) in jail for advice; he states flatly that they should kill Judith.
Sandy's feelings for Darren are rekindled, but he can't get the manipulative Judith out of his mind. Sandy, disheartened, returns to the convent, but Darren runs 30 miles there to win her back.
In a
counseling session in the basement, chained to an engine block, Judith convinces J.D. he is gay. She then knocks him unconscious with a lamp, steals his keys, and escapes from captivity with the truck, only to be taken down with a tranquilizer dart outside the police station by Wayne. In the basement again, Wayne chains her up, but while he is feeding her a juicyBig Montana sandwich fromArby's some of the Arby's sauce from the sandwich drips between herbreasts , she seduces him into releasing one of her hands, and she escapes. Judith runs to Darren's house in time to see Sandy and Darren kiss, and shames him into admitting that he promised to marry Judith. Sandy, disheartened, returns to the convent.After escaping from jail with the help of Coach Norton, J.D. and Wayne arrive at the convent on the brink of Sandy's final vows as a nun, but convince her that Darren still loves her. They then kidnap Neil Diamond, convincing him to help Darren and Sandy reunite. At the wedding, Neil stalls the proceedings with a song, while Wayne and Judith beat each other up (as love play), Darren and Sandy reunite, and J.D. arrives holding Coach in his arms, and come out as gay to each other.
On stage at the Neil Diamond concert that night, the priest weds Darren to Sandy, Wayne to Judith, and J.D. to Coach; the entire cast sings
Holly Holy .Cast
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Jason Biggs — Darren Silverman
*Steve Zahn — Wayne Lefessier
*Jack Black — J.D. McNugent
*Amanda Peet — Judith Fessbeggler
*Amanda Detmer — Sandy Perkus
*R. Lee Ermey — Coach Norton
*Neil Diamond — Himself
*Kyle Gass — Bar GuyFilm culture
This film falls within a cross-genre film type from the late 1990s and early 2000s in which grooms are saved, or nearly saved, from distasteful marriage.Adam Sternbergh, [http://www.slate.com/id/2094507/ "The Devil Wears Pearls: In recent movies, grooms across America flee their frigid fiancees"] , Slate, January 28, 2004]
Production
"Saving Silverman" was filmed in
Vancouver, British Columbia [ [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0239948/locations "Saving Silverman" locations] from theInternet Movie Database ] at a cost of USD$22 million.Fact|date=October 2007Reception
Reviews of the film were broadly negative, earning the film a 16% critic rating at Rotten Tomatoes [cite web | author=| year=| title=Saving Silverman at Rotten Tomatoes| format= | work=Rottentomatoes.com | url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/saving_silverman/ | accessdate=2007-01-31] and 22/100 at MetaCritic.com. [cite web | author=| year=| title=Saving Silverman at MetaCritic| format=| work=Metacritic.com | url=http://www.metacritic.com/video/titles/savingsilverman?q=Saving%20Silverman | accessdate=2007-04-02] Box office revenues were low. Worldwide theatrical gross was $26,086,706. [cite web | It was in the review for this film that Roger Ebert spoke his now classic "how low can a thumb go?" line.author=| year=| title=Box Office for Saving Silverman at Box Office Mojo| format= | work=boxofficemojo.com | url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=main&id=savingsilverman.htm | accessdate=2007-01-31] Rental income was $21.75M [cite web | author=| year=| title=VHS Rental info for Saving Silverman at Video Business| format= | work=videobusiness.com | url=http://www.videobusiness.com/info/CA627026.html | accessdate=2007-01-31] for VHS and $5.19M for DVD. [cite web
author=| year=| title=DVD Rental info for Saving Silverman at Video Business| format= | work=videobusiness.com | url=http://www.videobusiness.com/info/CA627027.html
accessdate=2007-01-31]Tagline
*"They swore nothing could come between them. Then she came along..."
*"They swore nothing would come between them. Then evil walked in the door" - From Evil Woman version
*"2 Best Friends + 1 Girlfriend = WAR"
*"They've sworn to save Silverman."References
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