CANADA: RELEASE OF CHRISTIAN SLATER'S NEW FILM "VERY BAD THINGS" AFTER HIS PRISON SENTENCE FOR ASSAULT

Record ID: 388176

  • Title: CANADA: RELEASE OF CHRISTIAN SLATER'S NEW FILM "VERY BAD THINGS" AFTER HIS PRISON SENTENCE FOR ASSAULT
  • Date: 6th December 1998
  • Summary: TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA (SEPTEMBER 13) (RTV-LA) (SOUNDBITE) (ENGLISH) CAMERON DIAZ SAYING OF PLAYING ANOTHER BRIDE: "Oh yeah, no, I'm determined to portray every, you know, type of bride there is out there. I'm going to break all stereotypes here." (SOUNDBITE) (ENGLISH) DIRECTOR PETER BERG SAYING OF DIRECTING: "When you're an actor, you can sort of do whatever you want.
  • Embargoed: 21st December 1998 12:00
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  • Location: TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA
  • Country: Canada
  • Reuters ID: LVA63JJB3TUGVC7SU4NTTC8X5VQ5
  • Story Text: Eight months after serving 60 days in jail for attacking his girlfiend and throwing a police officer down a flight of stairs, Christian Slater is back in movie theaters with a new dark comedy called "Very Bad Things." He and his co-star Cameron Diaz recently talked about the film.
    "Very Bad Things" was the last film Slater worked on before he went into prison.In it, he plays self-help course addict and real estate salesman Robert Boyd, the Best Man at the upcoming wedding of his friend Kyle Fisher, played by "Swingers" star Jon Favreau.The bride-to-be is played by "There's Something About Mary" star Cameron Diaz.
    While Diaz's character Laura is acting fanatical about staging the wedding of her dreams, Boyd, Kyle and three of their friends escape to Las Vegas for a bachelor party to end all bachelor parties, complete with plenty of booze and drugs and even a visit from a beautiful young stripper.
    But all hell breaks loose when the stripper is accidentally killed, and the guys come up with a morbid plan to carve up the body and bury it in the desert outside Las Vegas.But, of course, nothing goes according to plan, and soon their lives are complicated by police officers, lots of broken bones and dead bodies, and even a crippled dog.
    Although it may not sound like one, "Very Bad Things" was actually written as a very dark comedy by actor-turned-writer-turned-director Peter Berg.Best known for his role on the hit television series "Chicago Hope," Berg has also starred in the films "Copland" with Sylvester Stallone and "The Last Seduction" opposite Linda Fiorentino.
    This is his feature film directorial debut.
    Berg says he originally came up with the idea for the story during a visit to Las Vegas where he saw otherwise responsible and respectable groups of men acting like crazed maniacs.From there, the story spun into outrageously absurd and morbid territory.
    While this is a return to the big screen of sorts for Slater, it marks yet another film for the now very sought after actress Cameron Diaz.Since her debut in the Jim Carrey comedy "The Mask," Diaz has alternated between big budget studio pictures and smaller independent films.But 1998 has been her year, primarily due to the unexpected success of the gross-out comedy "There's Something About Mary," which has earned more than 171 million dollars in the United States alone.
    This is also the third time in the past few years Diaz has played a bride on the big screen.She played a woman who runsout on her own wedding with Keanu Reeves in "Feeling Minnesota" and was the perky bride-to-be in the huge Julia Roberts hit "My Best Friend's Wedding."
    "Very Bad Things" is now playing in theatres throughout the United States.
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