A loner befriends a local celebrity, Billy Magic, but he soon begins to tell lies in order to maintain the friendship and the newfound status.A loner befriends a local celebrity, Billy Magic, but he soon begins to tell lies in order to maintain the friendship and the newfound status.A loner befriends a local celebrity, Billy Magic, but he soon begins to tell lies in order to maintain the friendship and the newfound status.
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- 1 win
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- TriviaThis is one of the first seven films that the Screen Actors Guild foreclosed on due to non-payment of wages and residuals to SAG members. The rights were sold at auction on July 13, 2004.
- GoofsWhen Karchy picks up his girlfriend from the store where she works, they walk down a wheelchair ramp, which didn't exist in the 1960's.
- Quotes
Kevin Boyle: [Karchy is hidden in a confessionary pretending to be a priest] Bless me, father, for I have sinned. It's been three days since my last confession. The reason I'm here today, father... you know what it is. I just can't stop doing it. I get these thoughts and I can't keep my hands off of it. Father? Are you there, father? I know you said I was gonna go blind, father. I don't wanna go blind. Last night I did it three times. I'm doing so much that it hurts when I touch it. I wanna kill my dad again. I can't take it anymore. I hate him. I hate him, father. I just can't stand him hitting on my mom anymore.
Father Norton: Mr. Jonas! Get out of here. Gimme that! How dare you? Out! Out! You went too far this time. Too far!
- SoundtracksLet's Go Let's Go Let's Go
Performed by Hank Ballard & The Midnighters (as Hank Ballard and The Midnighters)
Written by Hank Ballard (as Henry Ballard)
Courtesy of Highland Music
By Arrangement with Source/Q
type of role, barely human (Murder in the First), a small-time
crook (The River Wild) or a twisted DJ (Telling Lies in
America). Here he is believable and puts in a good performance.
Brad Renfro also does well in his role, but isn't very
convincing. Two problems.
1.) He comes from Hungary, but has no accent, and sounds like he
came from New York
2.) Age. A year before this was filmed, he co-starred in The
Cure. There he played an 11 year old, and looked too old. Here
he plays a 17 year old, and looks too young for the role.
The other highlight is Maximillian Schell (I doubt I spelled
his name right). He is fourth billed as Renfro's Hungarian
father and is dead-on. Why Joe Esterhaus (Spelling error?) is
America's top paid screenwriter will never be known. He writes
lame scripts that deserve to be thrown away, but are instead
made into big-budget movies like this one.
+ (GOOD THINGS) 1.) Kevin Bacon's performance 2.) Maximillian
Schell's performance 3.) Plot line
- (BAD THINGS) 1.) Pretty well everything else
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Box office
- Budget
- $4,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $318,809
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $11,470
- Oct 19, 1997
- Gross worldwide
- $318,809
- Runtime1 hour 41 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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