| | | When does a close friend become too close?
Features: DVD, Sensormatic, Dolby Surround Sound
From Mike White, the writer of Dead Man On Campus and producer of TV’s “Freaks And Geeks,” comes a tale of comically twisted obsession. Chuck and Buck are childhood best friends whose lives have taken very different paths. While Chuck moved away and now has a real life, Buck stayed behind and developed a dangerous fixation – on Chuck’s life. The result is a wickedly hilarious story of two guys about to learn that growing up…is the strangest trip of all.
"Hilarious and haunting." Rolling Stone
"A provocative and uncomfortable comedy." Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post
"Joltingly funny." Entertainment Weekly
Editor's Note
When Buck, an immature 27-year-old, is reunited with his best friend, Chuck, a successful music industry executive, his resulting infatuation threatens to ruin Chuck's previously stable existence. CHUCK & BUCK successfully blends comedy, drama, and stalker films and is made all the more immediate by Miguel Arteta's decision to shoot on digital video. This, coupled with the striking performances by the two leads--both nonprofessional actors (Mike White and Chris Weitz are successful screenwriters)--results in a highly original film that can't easily be categorized.
Plot Summary
Miguel Arteta's (STAR MAPS) sophomore directorial effort is the disturbing, heartbreaking, and comic tale of Buck O'Brien, a 27-year-old with a serious case of arrested development. Buck, played by Mike White, who also wrote the screenplay, is a man with the social skills of an 11-year-old, still living in his childhood past surrounded by toys, his favorite candy (Blow Pops), and photos of his one and only friend, Chuck. After his mother's death, Buck writes to Chuck, whom he hasn't seen since they were boys. Chuck, played by director Chris Weitz (AMERICAN PIE), comes to the funeral with his fiancée, Carlyn (Beth Colt), only to discover that Buck has developed an eccentric, intense fixation on him. When Chuck, now called Charlie, makes an offhand invitation for Buck to visit them in L.A., Buck packs up his toys and moves there. He begins stalking the increasingly wary and angry Charlie, a handsome, successful record producer who feels his perfect life threatened by Buck's hints about their past. A funny, discomfiting tale of sexual obsession with a twist, CHUCK & BUCK continually engages and surprises viewers with Buck's frantic, yet oddly sympathetic, quest for love.
| Features | Widescreen Format Enhanced For 16X9 TVs | | Production Notes | | Scene Access | | Interactive Menus | | Featurette "The Games We Used To Play" | | Theatrical Trailer | | Cast & Crew Information | | Commentary With Director Miguel Arteta And Writer/Actor Mike White | | Deleted Scenes With Director And Writer Commentary | | An Insider's View With Director's Assistant Ruben Fleischer And Key Grip Doug Kieffer |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Artisan |
| Release Date: 12/19/2000 |
| Running Time: 97 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2000 | | Catalog ID: 11356 | | UPC: 00012236113560 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | 1.77:1 |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Sundance Film Festival (2000) | | | Miguel Arteta, Nominee, Grand Jury Prize--Dramatic Film |
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| | Professional Reviews | Movieline's Hollywood Life
"...Nothing about this movie unfolds predictably....[The casting is] an unalloyed triumph..." 07/??/2000 pp.32-3Premiere
"...[Arteta's film is] commendably frank and often uncomfortably funny..." 04/??/2000 p.31 Box Office
"...One remarkable movie....The gritty look works perfectly..." -- 4 out of 5 stars 07/01/2000 p.90 Los Angeles Times
"...CHUCK & BUCK flies in the face of contemporary paranoia and celebrates life's possibilities without losing touch with reality or slipping into sentimentality....Impressive..." 07/14/2000 p.C12 Chicago Sun-Times
"...A fascinating study of behavior..." 06/21/2000 p.30 Village Voice 6 of 10
...Chuck & Buck is a low-budget indie that manages to be not only consistently droll but cumulatively poignant and even scary. - J. Hoberman
The New York Times 8 of 10
...Chuck And Buck is a strange, intense and moving film about friendship and loss, an antidote to the current epidemic of lazy nostalgia for the innocence of childhood and therefore, magically, one of the few truly grown-up movies you're likely to see this year. - A.O. Scott
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