This slapdash farce, intended as a showcase for stand-up comic Steve Oedekerk, was misleadingly marketed as a Jim Carrey vehicle.
HIGH STRUNG amounts to a live-in-concert film morphed into a plot, of sorts. The scene is the apartment of manic children's book author Thane Furrows, pressured by a looming deadline for Shangri-La books (publisher of "Happy the Clam"). Unable to face such work, Furrows raves like a guy on Open
Mike Night about everything that annoys or confounds him, including breakfast cereal, popsicles, what flies think, what smokers think, table manners for plane-crash cannibals, pets, and the criminal justice system. Sudden visits from friends,...
Released:
1994
Rated:
NR
Length:
93 mins