My Life with Morrissey

Cool movie! Funny and outlandish. It's a farce that makes you laugh and squirm and laugh and cringe and laugh some more.

I hope it didn't make our sensitive Morrissey uncomfortable. Having an obsessed fan like Jackie would keep anyone looking over their shoulder at all times.

They certainly didn't hold anything back in this film. I enjoyed it immensely and can't wait to show it to all my friends. The acting was hilarious and the photography was great. I heard it was a low budget effort and I was impressed by the production quality. It's awesome to see people making independent films that are smart, interesting and completely against the mainstream.

Horrid, Overacting, Waste of time. Maybe if they used a more modern music icon it might have worked other then that stay away from this train wreck. I hope the actors did not get payed too much!

This is the kind of movie you are either going to totally love or totally hate.

It's beyond low budget. It's a crazy, stupid, ridiculous, demented mess of a movie that's just so fun to watch. It's the best kind of amateur effort that there is. 999 out of 1,000 times someone sets out to make a movie like this, it dies at some point during the process. That's why this movie is so important. By all rights this should never have existed, but for the few of you who like this sort of thing, there is no substitute.

It's hard to think of another movie this even compares to. I could see this appealing (in some ways) to (some) fans of things like Trailer Park Boys, The Foot-Fist Way, Freddy Got Fingered, Schizopolis, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Mallrats, The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra - stuff like that.

If you're the kind of person who loves low-budget DIY cinema AND dementedly stupid comedy YOU NEED TO SEE THIS for yourself.

Morrissey and anything to do with Morrissey is highly irrelevant here for the most part, so be not afraid. It's more to do about a crazy obsessive person's demented interactions with her co-workers and the world at large, played for big stupid laughs, to the point of absurdity. The object of her obsession could have been almost anyone or anything else - just that Morrissey tends to elicit this kind of crazy obsessiveness more than most.

It's a shame that more people who would absolutely love this movie and laugh their asses off don't get a chance to be exposed to it.

i had just recently sent an e-mail to Andrew Overtoom saying:

may i just commend you on a WONDERFUL film? i LOVED it. i was visiting NY (seeing Little Shop of Horrors on broadway...great production, by the way) on monday, and thought i'd stop in the virgin megastore. i saw the film and bought it on a whim, thinking "hey, i like Morrissey and the Smiths. why not?"... all i can say is WOW, i love it. it's utterly hilarious in the utmost darkest psyche, almost a direct mockery of harsh reality. however! consequently, i've now developed a total geek fanboy crush on Jackie Buscarino. will she be starring in any other films? do you plan on putting together any other films? i'd be quite interested to know.

a new fan, -brent saner

and! he was kind enough to take some time and write back, and was utmost kind about it, saying:

Hi Brent,

Thanks for your email, aI always love to hear from people who "get" the film, and it sounds like you really got it. And oh yeah, that Jackie! I think everyone has a crush on her! She is quite the tart!

I do have a film I just finished writing that will be going into pre-production in the spring. There is a good chance Jackie will be involved with that one, but we'll have to see how big a star she becomes in the meantime -- she might be booked up years in advance by then!

I encourage you to drop by imdb.com and/or amazon.com and leave a short review if you liked the film. It helps us a lot as we are always under constant attack by the "morrissey nazis" there.

Well, thanks again Brent. Let me know if you have any luck with Jackie!

Best Regards, Andrew

now, having read that, i want all the "morrissey nazis" to know that this film is, in NO way, guaranteed to be about morrissey himself or include music by him. welcome to the real world! just relax and enjoy the film for what it is- a delve into the sickness of the human condition, and'or what can go wrong with an admiration when it goes too far.

and having a bit of dark comedy in the process.

the focus of the film is human nature, and jackie, and the way she interacts with people around her...not morrissey.

'nuff said!

-brent

This dark comedy outlines the outlandish obsession of a Morrissey fan. Morrissey fans may be let down- it doesn't have a whole lot to do with Morrissey. Or, perhaps, they could really enjoy it by recognizing (god forbid) some of their own obsessive traits. Regardless, you don't go into My Life with Morrissey expecting something serious or of "hollywood" technical quality. You do get a few great sick and twisted scenes that, somehow, don't seem as out of place as they aught to.

Also, the DVD features a short documentary titled "Real Life with Morrissey" that should be worthy of any fan boy or girl.

If you're a fan of Morrissey and B movies, you'll love this. If not, I honestly don't know why you wanted to watch it at all.