That’s the trailer for a movie I was really looking forward to – Pete Smalls Is Dead. Quirky characters played by Peter Dinklage (The Station Agent) and Mark Boone Junior (Sons of Anarchy) embark on a comic adventure. The rest of the cast is great: Tim Roth, Steve Buscemi, Rosie Perez, Michael Lerner, and Seymour Cassel. Unfortunately, the writing fails the actors, and the movie just isn’t that funny. I fell asleep and had to finish it the next day.
So instead, I recommend that you watch the trailer (much funnier than the movie) and then rent a really funny Peter Dinklage/Steve Buscemi movie – Living in Oblivion. Real life indie director Tom DiCillo (Johnny Suede, Box of Moonlight) wrote Living in Oblivion about skating on the edge of disaster while making a very low-budget indie film. Buscemi plays the indie director, who must deal with a narcissistic leading man (James LeGros), a low self-esteem leading lady (Catherine Keener), a pretentious and self-absorbed cameraman (Dermot Mulroney) and a dwarf actor with an attitude the size of Manitoba (Dinklage). The screenplay is hilarious and the fine actors all nail their roles. Watch and laugh.
