USA: CANADIAN-BORN COMIC TOM GREEN CELEBRATES THE WORLD PREMIERE OF HIS DIRECTORIAL DEBUT "FREDDIE GOT FINGERED"

Record ID: 391195

  • Title: USA: CANADIAN-BORN COMIC TOM GREEN CELEBRATES THE WORLD PREMIERE OF HIS DIRECTORIAL DEBUT "FREDDIE GOT FINGERED"
  • Date: 8th April 2001
  • Summary: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (APRIL 8, 2001) (REUTERS) SCU (SOUNDBITE) (ENGLISH) TOM GREEN SAYING "It's got crazy moments in the movie and you kinda gotta be with a group of people at the studio that want to make a crazy movie and we were lucky enough to find that at New Regency and at Fox. They wanted to do a crazy movie with us and you know, I was able to kind
  • Embargoed: 23rd April 2001 13:00
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  • Location: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES AND FILM LOCATIONS
  • Country: USA
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVAB9TKLRDTL2OQM2CP4OAY4OD3B
  • Story Text: After delighting some and disgusting others with his unorthodox television series, Canadian-born comic Tom Green has celebrated the World Premiere of his directorial debut "Freddie Got Fingered".
    Although the media gathered at the premiere for Green's directorial debut, they were also there to catch their first glimpse of the officially-married couple Tom Green and Drew Barrymore, who tied the knot two weeks ago in a private ceremony.
    The pair last appeared together in "Charlie's Angels," but this is Green's first time out as a headlining star as well as a director. He wrote the film along with his childhood friend Derek Harvie, who also writes for Green's television show.
    The film tells the story of Green's character Gord Brody, a 28-year old aspiring animator who tries to make it in Hollywood, but is rejected and has to move back into his parents' home. His dad is played by "Larry Sanders' Show"
    co-star Rip Torn and his mom is played by "Airplane" co-star Julie Haggerty.
    Although it's not based on Green's life, the storyline does parallel some of his experiences. Like his character, Green always dreamed of breaking into show business and lived with his parents until a very late age in order to achieve that dream.
    It started to come true when Green pitched an idea for a talk show to Rogers TV in his native Ottawa, Canada. Three years later, "The Tom Green Show" was picked up by the Comedy Network and, later, by MTV.
    "Freddie Got Fingered" is unorthodox comedy at its most brutal. It includes scenes of Green masturbating a horse and an elephant, of him biting the umbilical cord off a new-born baby, and of him slicing open a dead deer by the side of the road and crawling inside its carcass. It's definitely not a film for the weak-stomached.
    The film is currently on release in the United States.
    ENDS
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