Nobody Knows Anything!

2003
R
1h 30m

IMDb RATING

3.3/10

765

YOUR RATING

Mike Myers, Robert Englund, Janeane Garofalo, Virginia Madsen, Kristen Johnston, Tim Meadows, Alanna Ubach, Margaret Cho, Richard Kind, Ed Lauter, Michael Lerner, Wayne Rogers, Ryan Stiles, and Fred Willard in Nobody Knows Anything! (2003)

In this comedy about Hollywood, Sarah thinks making a movie is easy. With the guidance of her screenwriter uncle, she goes on a wild journey into the world of Hollywood where she meets crazy studio execs, insane producers and a gangster who agrees to finance her film - for a price...

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Sarah believes filmmaking is simple until her screenwriter uncle guides her through Hollywood's chaos of eccentric executives, producers, and a gangster offering shady movie financing.Sarah believes filmmaking is simple until her screenwriter uncle guides her through Hollywood's chaos of eccentric executives, producers, and a gangster offering shady movie financing.Sarah believes filmmaking is simple until her screenwriter uncle guides her through Hollywood's chaos of eccentric executives, producers, and a gangster offering shady movie financing.

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IMDb RATING

3.3/10

765

YOUR RATING

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Featured review

8/10

Brilliant

I thought this movie was loads of fun, though seeing the reviews I guess it's not for people who don't enjoy low-key send-ups of the entertainment business. This movie is like seeing all those situations and people that are usually stuck in here and there in a big action flick (or The Simpsons) to get in a slam to Hollywood culture, all strung together, but instead of being tongue-in-cheek, relentlessly sincere. Maybe the bad reviews reflect that it hasn't attracted its audience because of the way they marketed it -- they should be trying to get a Woody Allen crowd, perhaps? The cast is made up of extremely talented comedy stars and well-known character actors, each one bigger than the last, who play their characters so low-key and real. So much so, that the little ironies don't seem set up, they seem accidental like they should be but never are in comedy films. And a big surprise to me was how entertaining Margaret Cho was, as I'm not a huge fan of her stand-up.

Trivia
The title comes from a William Goldman quote from his book "Adventures in the Screen Trade", where he says that "the single most important fact, perhaps, of the entire movie industry" is that 'nobody knows anything'. If there is a Roman numeral I to this book, that's it.... Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what's going to work. Every time out it's a guess and, if you're lucky, an educated one."

Quotes
Virus: [speaking rapidly, pointing gun into mirror] You laughin' at me, huh? Huh? You laughin' at m- What am I, a clown? Do I amuse you? I'm what, I'm funny now? Huh? You must be laughin' at me; I don't see anybody else around here!
Patty: You're mixing your movies, dipshit.
Virus: What?
Patty: You're mixing your movies.
Virus: No I'm not.
Virus: [back to mirror] How the *fuck* do I amuse you, huh?
Patty: That's Joe Pesci.
Virus: No, Pesci wasn't in Taxi Driver.
Patty: That's what i'm saying. You're mixing your movies.
Virus: No I'm not.
Patty: [disgusted] Whatever.
Virus: "Whatever." Good response; I guess you win.