While not as relentlessly awful as BAD SANTA, Terry Zwigoff's third feature also doesn’t come close to fulfilling the promise he showed in his documentary debut, CRUMB, or in the marvelous GHOST WORLD. This failure is especially surprising because Zwigoff not only reunited with GHOST WORLD's writer, ingenious graphic artist Dan Clowes, but he aimed to satirize a rarefied sphere both know all too well: the art world. Lured by the promise of becoming a real, working artist — and by the comely blonde life model in the school's brochure — virginal Jerome Platz (Max Minghella) arrives at the New York City-area Strathmore Institute ready to embark on his exciting new caree...
Released:
2006
Rated:
R
Length:
102 mins