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| Growing up at his mother’s legendary comedy club The Comedy Store in Los Angeles California, Pauly Shore was bred into the life of being a comedic party animal. The ex MTV V.J. made the leap to the silver screen in 1992 with the film Encino Man; co-starring with a then unknown Brendan Fraser and ex-Goonie/future guardian of “Mr. Frodo” Sean Astin. For five straight years, Pauly played the role of a cinematic goofball. In the aftermath of 1996's Bio-Dome, which featured direct to video hall of famer Stephen Baldwin, “The Weiz...al” dropped off the Hollywood radar like Wylie Coyote falling off a desert cliff. Well now Shore is back, and he’s called in a few favors as he makes his writing, producing, and directing debut with Pauly Shore is Dead. | |||
| In the spring of 1997 when the debut of his Fox sitcom entitled “Pauly” is cancelled after only its first episode airs, actor Pauly Shore begins to realize that his career is rapidly becoming a joke. As the work stops coming in, ridicule from Hollywood begins to take form, he loses his house to Carrot Top, and his girlfriend leaves him for some guy who knows a guy who knows Hugh Hefner. The final blow is landed when his best friend Kirk (Kirk Fox) turns his back on him, ruining a potential second chance when Sean Penn casually asks Kirk who the actor was in “that Dome movie with a Baldwin brother”. Evidently Penn wanted him for his next project. For Pauly, bitterness and depression sets in, until just when he thought it couldn’t get any worse his guardian angel, Sam Kinison (voiced by Craig Gass), advises Pauly to kill himself so he can be revered as a “comic legend who died before his time” and live on forever. The dim-witted Shore then fakes his death just to see if it will work. As Kinison’s prophecy is fulfilled, slowly the truth surrounding his “death” begins to come out. A media shit storm lets loose on Pauly like a Florida hurricane leaving him imprisoned and seeking redemption from the unlikeliest of places; his born again cellmate...Todd Bridges. | |||
| Pauly shows a lot of cleverness, however the execution of... his execution is a slight let down. Still, I have to give credit where credit is due. Pauly Shore is Dead’s premise is ingenious. Pauly did a great job coming up with this concept and made it work. He nearly had a great little nuance filled comedy that could have been a real breakthrough. But the film’s look and feel fails him. The movie is shot on digital video. It’s not that same gritty DV look that Michael Mann’s Collateral had, it’s that bright and cheap DV look that makes it seem like an epic porn. This is indeed a low budget movie, but maybe with a big studio on board and some more money to play with - and maybe even someone other than Shore directing - it could have been so much better. | |||
| Most of the flick’s high points come from celebrity cameos ripping Pauly a new one. He’s an easy target, and watching Chris Rock, Bill Maher, and Ben Stiller just tear into him is hysterical. Even Pauly had me in stitches, just once, as he tried to fit in with a gang in prison, but beyond that the rest of the film’s laughs come from Pauly as the punchline. One of the funniest running gags in the film involves Michael Madsen and Tom Sizemore, and the ditzy bimbos who easily confuse the two while they party with Shore. For the most part though, all of the film’s funniest moments require the viewer to have prior knowledge on the subjects entertained. Paul Shore is Dead is in-joke after in-joke. I get it so I laugh, but there are people out there that won’t really get it and will either hate it for it not really being a “Pauly Shore movie” or just hate it out of sheer confusion. | |||
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| Pauly Shore Is Dead | |
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| Directed by | Pauly Shore |
| Written by | Kirk Fox Pauly Shore |
| Produced by | Pauly Shore |
| Starring | Pauly Shore Ashley L. Anderson Pamela Anderson Camille Anderson Adam Sandler Eminem Charlie Sheen Ben Stiller |
| Production company | Regent Releasing |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
| Release dates |
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| Running time | 82 minutes |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $11,000 |
Pauly Shore Is Dead is an American comedy/mockumentary motion picture released in 2003 starring actor and comedian Pauly Shore. The cameo-filled movie begins as a semi-autobiographical retelling of Shore's early success and dwindling popularity in the late 1990s, after which it documents Shore's (fictional) attempt to fake his own death in order to drum up popularity for his films.
The film, with the original working title of You'll Never Wiez in This Town Again, marked Shore's debut as a writer, director, and producer.
Plot
The film begins as an autobiographical look at Shore's early professional successes on MTV and as the star of a series of 90s comedies. Shore's film career leads to his taking a starring role in a vehicle on the Fox network, in which he plays the slacker son of a millionaire. The pilot of the series turns out to be a commercial and critical failure, and Shore becomes a pariah virtually overnight, with his friends distancing themselves from him for fear that it will tarnish their own careers. Shore is ultimately reduced to living in his mother's attic and watching pornography starring his ex-girlfriend, who will no longer see him.
One night, Shore is visited by the ghost of his mentor, comic Sam Kinison, who encourages Shore to fake his own death as a means of revitalizing popularity in Pauly Shore films and merchandise. Shore decides to go through with the plan, which initially works: Once word of his "death" breaks, celebrities eager for the residual publicity begin appearing on television in large numbers to declare Shore a comic genius and lament his early death. Shore, eager to bask in the publicity, begins appearing in public wearing a disguise; he is quickly outed, arrested, and sent to prison.
In prison, Shore is attacked by one of his former fans, "Bucky from Kentucky," a redneck whose world view was shattered when he learned that Shore had willingly put his own fans through the ordeal of thinking he was dead. Shore survives the attack, which causes him to realize that even though he was no longer as famous as he once was, he still had fans who loved him. Shore and Bucky have a heart-to-heart about the nature of celebrity, and Shore decides to start his career over.
After getting out of prison, Shore sets about making Pauly Shore is Dead to chronicle his own rise and fall, using information he has gathered from years in Hollywood to blackmail various b-list celebrities into appearing in cameos; he reserves the information he has on a-list celebrities for the planned sequel.
Cast
- Pauly Shore - Himself and Bucky's cousin
- W. Earl Brown - Bucky From Kentucky
- Kristin Herold - Bucky's Cousin
- David Kersey - Bucky Jr.
- Miriam Cohen Kiel - Bucky's Daughter
- Kelly Kursten - Bucky's wife
- Timmy Jamieson - Sam Kinison
- Clint Howard - Pauly's Business Manager
- Bobby Lee - Delivery Boy
- Jason Mewes - Robert Francesco
- Christopher Penn - Half of Gay Couple in Jail
- Sam Rubin - Michael Figliolia
- Lala Sloatman - Hooker in loft
- Marilyn Martinez - Housekeeper
Cameos
- Sam Kinison - Himself (archive footage)
- Pamela Anderson - Herself
- Britney Spears - Herself
- A.J. Benza - Himself
- B-Real - Himself
- Todd Bridges - Himself
- Tiffany Shepis- Herself
- Tommy Chong - Himself
- Carson Daly - Himself
- Ellen DeGeneres - Herself
- Jewel De'Nyle - Herself
- Dustin Diamond - Himself
- Andy Dick - Himself
- Snoop Dogg - Himself
- Dr. Dre - Himself
- Jerry Dunphy - Himself
- Fred Durst - Himself
- Sully Erna - Himself
- Perry Farrell - Himself
- Corey Feldman - Himself
- Heidi Fleiss - Herself
- Nicky Hilton - Herself
- Paris Hilton - Herself
- Kato Kaelin - Himself
- Craig Kilborn - Himself
- Tommy Lee - Himself
- Kurt Loder - Himself
- Mario López - Himself
- Michael Madsen - Himself
- Bill Maher - Himself
- Rosie O'Donnell - Herself
- Pat O'Brien - Himself
- Nancy O'Dell - Herself
- Sean Penn - Himself
- Matt Pinfield - Himself
- Sally Jessy Raphael - Herself
- Chris Rock - Himself
- Ja Rule - Himself
- Adam Sandler - Himself (voice)
- Charlie Sheen - Himself
- Tom Sizemore - Himself
- Vern Troyer - Himself
- Natasha Henstridge - Himself
Reception
Pauly Shore Is Dead received the first and only positive reviews of Shore's film career; Rotten Tomatoes gave it a "fresh" 62% rating, far higher than his starring vehicles of the 1990s. It was a box office bomb, however, earning just $11,000 after a very limited release to theaters in Sacramento, California. It has developed something of a following on DVD.
Additional notes
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Music from the band Staind's album "Break the Cycle" is used in the movie. Aaron Lewis, vocalist of Staind, also has an appearance in the DVD. Eminem and now deceased rapper Proof are in a deleted scene. Fred Durst and Ja Rule, who both feuded with Eminem, also appeared in the film. In the deleted scene with Dexter Holland, the song playing in the background is "Elders" written and performed by Dexter's band The Offspring. Dennis Woodruff also had a scene in the film that was cut out. Woodruff explained his problem with Pauly Shore after this incident on Tom Green's House Tonight in 2006.
References
- ^ "Pauly Shore is Dead". Box Office Mojo.
