USA: OPENING OF FILM 'MYSTERY MAN' WITH BEN STILLER, GREG KINNEAR, GEOFFREY RUSH AND HANK AZARIA

Record ID: 386681

  • Title: USA: OPENING OF FILM 'MYSTERY MAN' WITH BEN STILLER, GREG KINNEAR, GEOFFREY RUSH AND HANK AZARIA
  • Date: 18th July 1999
  • Summary: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (JULY 18, 1999) (REUTERS ) (SOUNDBITE) (English) BEN STILLER SAYING "I based Mr. Angry on me when I'm upset. I basically looked in the mirror one day when someone was upsetting me and I was screaming and I turned to the mirror and I saw myself and I went: 'Yes, that's it, that's the character', and that image was indelibly marked in
  • Embargoed: 2nd August 1999 13:00
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  • Location: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES AND VARIOUS FILM LOCATIONS
  • Country: USA
  • Reuters ID: LVADTDG1IOBNPNWZWNB4V1G2LZFE
  • Story Text: "Mystery Men", a tale of would be super heroes with an all star cast has just opened in the United States.Ben Stiller, Greg Kinnear, Geoffrey Rush and Hank Azaria are amongst the wannabes of Champion City.
    By day, Roy (Ben Stiller), Jeffrey (Hank Azaria), Eddie (William H Macy) are blue collar workers.But when night falls, they become Mr Furious, The Blue Raja and The Shoveler, combing the streets in search of villains.
    Unfortunately, Captain Amazing (Greg Kinnear) has beaten them to it, and he's such a fantastic superhero, that the Champion City is virtually crime free.Bored and desperate, Captain Amazing arranges for his arch enemy, Casanova Frankenstein (Geoffrey Rush) to be released from prison.But the ex-con has plans of his own and promptly kidnaps Captain Amazing.
    Mr Furious, The Blue Raja and The Shoveler team up with The Spleen (Paul Reubens), Invisible Boy (Kel Mitchell), The Bowler (Janeane Garofalo) and The Sphinx (Wes Studi), determined to rescue Captain Amazing and become heroes in their own right.
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