LOADING
Co-presented by USYD FilmSoc
Directed by Tom Green | 87 minutes | R 18+ | Retrospective
8.00pm, Sunday, 19 November | Buy Tickets | Buy Passes
Daddy, would you like some sausages?... The highest budget, most transgressive piece of Y2K pop cultural media ever conceived, back on the big screen for the first time since release.
Notorious, infamous, misunderstood - at the turn of the century, comedian and formerly-public access provocateur Tom Green was handed 'the big bag' ($14 million) to make standard studio MTV blockbuster comedy fare. Instead, Green turned in a damning indictment of its contemporaries, a darker-than-black satire of the cultural moment of excess that spawned it, which was mocked and derided by most critics upon release, later building a strong cult following on DVD. Green stars in the film as a childish slacker who wishes to become a professional cartoonist while dealing with his abusive father's behavior. Its plot resembles Green's struggles as a young man trying to get his television series picked up, which would later become the MTV series The Tom Green Show. The title of the film refers to a plot point where Green's character falsely accuses his father of sexually abusing his brother, the eponymous Freddy. If you haven't seen it before, you've gotta - if you've seen it before, it's time to revisit it. This might be our last ever screening at Pink Flamingo Cinema - lets make it one to remember.
"This movie doesn't scrape the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn't the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn't below the bottom of the barrel. This movie doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence with barrels... The day may come when Freddy Got Fingered is seen as a milestone of neo-surrealism. The day may never come when it is seen as funny. [editor's note: This guy is wrong, Freddy Got Fingered rocks!!]"
- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
"Seeing Tom Green reminded me, as how could it not, of his movie Freddy Got Fingered, which was so poorly received by the film critics that it received only one lonely, apologetic positive review on the Tomatometer. I gave it - let's see - zero stars. Bad movie, especially the scene where Green was whirling the newborn infant around his head by its umbilical cord. But the thing is, I remember Freddy Got Fingered more than a year later. I refer to it sometimes. It is a milestone. And for all its sins, it was at least an ambitious movie, a go-for-broke attempt to accomplish something. It failed, but it has not left me convinced that Tom Green doesn't have good work in him. Anyone with his nerve and total lack of taste is sooner or later going to make a movie worth seeing. [editor's note: He's wrong, it succeeded, Freddy Got Fingered is worth seeing.]"
- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
"I watched this with my friend Kyle. He absolutely hated it, didn't even laugh when Tom Green said "stick the cheese up your bum". Fuck him."
- Austin Shermer, Letterboxd
Country: USA
Year: 2001
Language: English
Co-presented by USYD FilmSoc