Martin Short's unctuous celebrity interviewer, Jiminy Glick, stars in a shambling comedy-mystery that's neither mysterious nor funny. A match head flares into flame and dissolves into a dark highway as David Lynch (Short) ponders the sordid 1958 murder of small-time hood Johnny Stompanato by the unhappy daughter of his movie-star lover, Lana Turner. How strange that some 45 years later, small-time Butte, Mont., TV personality Jiminy Glick (Short) should find himself entangled in a murder at the Toronto Film Festival that echoes this classic dispatch from
Hollywood Babylon! The tubby Glick, his vulgar wife, Dixie (Jan Hooks), and their fat, freaky twins, Matthe...
Released:
2005
Rated:
R
Length:
90 mins