The film is a vomitorium consisting of 93 minutes of tom green doing things that a geek in a carnival sideshow would turn down. The film follows green as a 28yearold slacker who wishes to become a professional cartoonist. Tom green, rip torn, marisa coughlan, eddie kaye thomas, harland williams, anthony michael hall, julie hagerty. Thats not to say that green didnt make exactly the film he wanted to make. Man arrested for overdue freddy got fingered video rental.
The fifteenyearold cult comedy freddy got fingered causes one man unexpected trouble in. Man arrested for not returning freddy got fingered vhs. Mar 23, 2002 freddy got fingered was mauled by the critics last year, with one critic describing it as the worst film ever released by a major studio. Moviemeter musicmeter boekmeter gamesmeter tvmeter. The films plot resembles greens struggles as a young man trying to get his tv series picked up, which would later become the popular mtv show the tom green show. But by all accounts, 2001s freddy got fingered was a substantial bomb, and decimated his future. See the full list of freddy got fingered cast and crew including actors, directors, producers and more. Freddy got fingered 2001 eric snider 07072011 for 10 years, my goto answer when someone asks whats the worst movie ive ever seen has been freddy got fingered. Freddy got fingered is, when all the gagging subsides, no more than an enormous pile of horse dung. Watch freddy got fingered online stream full movie directv. The final frontier and travoltas battlefield earth. A 28yearold, unemployed animator tries to get his life in order after moving back home with his parents.
Todays my year of flops entry, the notorious 2001 comedy freddy got fingered has a bifurcated reputation as both one of the worst films ever made and a movie so doggedly, singularly bizarre that its hard to believe it ever got greenlit. The films plot resembles greens struggles as a young man trying to get his tv series picked up, which would later. His father rip torn doesnt approve of gords career path, and pressures him to gain independence. Apr 20, 2001 its tom greens new flick, freddy got fingered. The films extended coma at the rockbottom of yet to be cult but deserving of cult status is undeserved. As father and son exchange barbs, gord comes up with. Mar 25, 2016 a north carolina man was arrested and charged this week for failing to return a vhs rental, freddy got fingered, to a nowdefunct video store some 14 years ago. If you want to start a main freddygotfingered page, just click the edit button above. Freddy got fingered dvd, 2001 for sale online ebay. At the height of his fame, tom green was allowed to make his first standalone movie as a leading man.
Apr 25, 2001 freddy got fingered 2001 there is a moment near the end of freddy got fingered when tom green and rip torn step from a plane, relieved that their 18month hostage situation in pakistan is over, and they are greeted by a cheering crowd that has turned out to see their arrivals. Friends with money 2006 from within 2008 frozen ground, the 20. It makes american pie appear like a representation of high brow comedy, and fools us into thinking that pink flamingos is a bastion of good taste. Bbc news oscars 2002 green gets fingered for razzies. When david spade got buried in crap in joe dirt, and when three supermodels got buried in crap in. Freddy got fingered 2001 freeway 1996 friend request 2016 alternatieve titel. Freddy got fingered gets man arrested, tom green may pay fine b. When his parents demand he leave, he begins to spread rumors which his father is sexually abusing freddy.
Do the freddy written by frank agnew as frank thomas agnew, rikk agnew as rikk f. If you have a stupid sense of humour and find tom greens outlandish brand humour to your taste then this film is for you read more. His bizarre approach to comedy is his own brainchild and deserves some form of critical acclaim regardless. With tom green, rip torn, marisa coughlan, eddie kaye thomas. Freddy got fingered is a 2001 american comedy film directed by tom green and written by green and derek harvie. His only contemporaries on that front, really, was the jackass crew, but judging by the skateboarding footage in this films opening credits, the only area where they bested him was in extreme sports. If freddy got fingered was a living thing, itd be allowed to drive a car and see other rrated movies like itself. Freddy got fingered 2001 soundtracks 25 problems written by paul cook, steve jones as stephen jones, glen matlock and john lydon. Freddy got fingered is a movie about a guy who goes to hollywood to make a tv show. Some of the scenes are similar to the antics seen in his own the tom green show. Freddy got fingered 2001 jabootus bad movie dimension. Unfavorably comparing it with such infamously bad titles as battlefield earth, a significant number of critics are calling tom greens extreme grossout.
Freddy got fingered was one of tom greens pet projects for a couple of years, and im sure that he had a blast making this film. Freddy got fingered 2001 trailers and clips moviefone. Apr 26, 2001 t he fallow months between oscar nomination time and the start of the summer season at the us box office always tend to throw up a few stinkers, but freddy got fingered, a new comedy starring. A satirical parttime selfreferential fulltime grossout ragbag from anticomedian basement legend tom green, freddy got fingered remains inhumed at the bottom of the films to be made cult waiting list. Personally, i was in the middle of a troma pictures high. Rent freddy got fingered 2001 on dvd and bluray netflix. Mar 25, 2016 like the rest of america, james meyers jr.
They give him some money to do it and he goes apeshit with it all. Freddy got fingered is a sick, disgusting comedy starring iconoclastic mtv comic tom green, who plays a 28yearold cartoonist who gets into constant battles with his father. He claims his dad is molesting freddy, leading to drastic. Television star tom green makes his directorial debut with this grossout comedy. In all, green picked up awards for worst director, worst actor, worst screenplay, worst onscreen couple and worst film. Gordon brody dreams of becoming a hollywood animator, but his drawings havent even earned him a job sweeping floors in a studio. Oct 11, 2014 freddy got fingered isguaranteed to end up on any worst movies ever, most offensive films ever, biggest comedian failures, worst performance of a man swinging a newborn baby by its umbilical cord. Freddy got fingered is a 2001 american black comedy film directed, written by tom green and derek harvie and starring tom green. Mar 24, 2016 otherwise, you may find yourself clapped in handcuffs, like a north carolina man who was recently arrested for failing to return a vhs copy of freddy got fingered to a video store in 2002. Mike and jay discuss the muchhated tom green vehicle freddy got fingered.
Rent freddy got fingered 2001 on dvd and bluray dvd. Freddy got fingered, directed by, cowritten by and starring green, makes the fatal mistake of assuming the mere presence of green would send audiences into paroxysms of laughter and that anything resembling coherence, story, taste or real humor was tossed out the window. It is largely built around grossout and shock humor. I like this idea, and i think it works to an extent, but im not so sure. Freddy got fingered is a 2001 american surrealist cringe comedy film directed by tom green and written by green and derek harvie. Maybe freddy got fingered was proof that tom green was. Gords brother, freddy,is in an adoption clinic place because he was believed to have been abused physically by his dadthe lie gord told a psychiatrist and hence the titleand the reason mrs. Gord brody tom green is a struggling cartoonist trying to pitch an animated show to hollywood executives. Freddy got fingered is less a movie than a series of indescribably loopy, elaborately conceived conceptualartstyle happenings that are at. Mar 24, 2018 mike and jay discuss the muchhated tom green vehicle freddy got fingered. The title of the movie is even sexually gross and demeaning. Freddy got fingered 2001 gord brody tom green is a struggling cartoonist trying to pitch an animated show to hollywood executives.
Selfmade celebrity and outlaw of grossout comedy, tom green of mtvs tom green show makes the leap to the big screen with the outrageous semiautobiographical freddy got fingered. And no, they dont talk about the daddy would you like some sausage song. I n the us, this has been hailed as the 21st centurys worst. For all who were grossed out about road trip do not go see freddie got fingered. When he fails, he returns to his hometown with no choice but to live with his parents and younger brother, freddy eddie kaye thomas. Its terrible, misguided, and borderline incoherent. Aspiring animator gord, 28, leaves his oregon home to sell his ideas to hollywood. Some claim that freddy got fingered is a satire, or at the very least the antithesis, of what was popular comedies were at the time of its release e.
Why freddy got fingered isnt the bomb everyone remembers. Freddy got fingered wants to shock you out of your middlebrow complacency, but its never disturbing, only sad. Rent freddy got fingered 2001 starring tom green and rip torn on dvd and bluray. Be careful, though, the only things that go in the main namespace are tropes and should be created through the ykttw system. Mar 24, 2016 the 2001 movie freddy got fingered starred comedian tom green and tells the story of a cartoonist who returns home to live with his parents. Freddy got fingered is utterly ridiculous and hilarious. Freddy got fingered vhs, 2002 for sale online ebay. Gords dad, jim rip torn, never fingered his 25yearold little brother freddy eddie kaye thomas.
Freddy got fingered is a comedy film directed by and starring tom green. Een titel als freddy got fingered belooft niet meteen het toppunt van goede smaak. A 20th century fox release in association with epsilon motion pictures of a regency enterprises presentation of a new regencymbst production. Ebert somewhat softened on the movie in later years. An unemployed cartoonist moves back in with his parents and. Freddy got fingered 2001 official sites, and other sites with posters, videos, photos and more. Apr 20, 2001 the day may come when freddy got fingered is seen as a milestone of neosurrealism. Tom green schreeuwt zich een weg doorheen deze film en doet dat met verve. Financial analysis of freddy got fingered 2001 including budget, domestic and international box office gross, dvd and bluray sales reports, total earnings and profitability.
Freddy got fingered 2001 plot summary 3 an unemployed cartoonist moves back in with his parents and younger brother freddy. Mtv icon tom green cowrites, directs and stars in freddy got fingered, a film he calls a touching story of a young man who desperately wants to make his daddy. The whole movie is just gross sex scenes that are very popular with teenagers. Overview of freddy got fingered, 2001, directed by tom green, with tom green, rip torn, marisa coughlan, at turner classic movies. If you have a stupid sense of humour and find tom greens outlandish brand humour to your taste then this film is for you.
Sick of being compared to his younger brother, who works at a bank, gord clashes with his dad and sets out to drive him crazy. In freddy got fingered, gord brody tom green wants to get into bigtime animation but is forced to move back in with his parents rip torn and julie hagerty when he loses his job at the cheese factory. Studios exist precisely to keep films this audacious, original, and transgressive from ever hitting theaters. Freddy got fingered was written and directed by tom green, and so in hells video store, we can put it up on the shelf next to such stinkers such as shatners star trek. At any rate, freddy got fingered is so awful that it turns the likes of battlefield earth and 3000 miles to graceland into pretenders to the label of a bad movie. What makes me laugh, and this has to be intentional, is that it has to be tom greens way of saying how stupid people were to allow him to make freddy got fingered. The footage of surgery freddy is watching, when the cop and therapist come to his door, is actual footage of surgery tom green underwent to remove a lymph node due to testicular cancer. Freddy got fingered is een amerikaanse komedie uit 2001 geschreven en geregisseerd door. Green stars as gord brody, a 28yearold slacker who.