Superstar (1999)

Regisseur:

Bruce McCulloch

Drehbuchautoren (WGA):

Molly Shannon (character)
Steve Koren (written by)

Premierendatum:

8. Oktober 1999 (USA)

Genre:

Komödie

Werbezeile:

Dare to dream.

Plot:

Yet another SNL skit-turned movie. In this one, Molly Shannon plays nerdy Catholic schoolgirl, Mary Katherine Gallagher, who's dreaming of superstardom.

Plot Keywords:

Teenage Girl | Catholic School | Dog | Stuttering | Talent Show

Filmpreise:

2 nominations

Nutzerkommentare:

Reply to SamRag comment : This movie rocks

Besetzung

Molly Shannon	...	Mary Katherine Gallagher
Will Ferrell	...	Sky Corrigan / Jesus
Elaine Hendrix	...	Evian Carrie Graham
Harland Williams	...	Eric Slater
Mark McKinney	...	Father Tylenol Ritley
Glynis Johns	...	Grandma Gallagher
Jason Blicker	...	Howard Feinstein
Gerry Bamman	...	Father John Insomnic
Emmy Laybourne	...	Helen Lewengrub
Jennifer Irwin	...	Maria Ganitisis
Rob Stefaniuk	...	Thomas Smith
Natalie Radford	...	Autumn Winters
Karyn Dwyer	...	Summer Falls
Tom Green	...	Dylan Schmultz-Plutzker
Chuck Campbell	...	Owen Flanagan

Alternativ:

Superstar - Trau' dich zu träumen (Deutschland) [de]

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for sex-related humor and language.

Länge:

81 Min

Produktionsland:

USA

Sprache:

Englisch

Farbe:

Farbe

Tonverfahren:

Dolby Digital

Altersfreigabe:

South Korea:15 | UK:15 | Iceland:L | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Chile:14 | France:U | Germany:6 | New Zealand:M | USA:PG-13 | Singapore:PG

Drehorte:

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Firma:

SNL Studios

Dies und das:

Actors Will Ferrell, Molly Shannon, and Mark McKinney all appeared together in another film, A Night at the Roxbury (1998). In that movie Ferrell was also Shannon's romantic interest. McKinney also plays a church figure in both films.

Pannen:

Fehler, die von Charakteren gemacht werden (möglicherweise Absicht der Filmemacher): In the scene were Mary Katherine is praying to God while the Vicks Vapor is running, she makes the sign of the cross backwards. She touches her right shoulder first instead of touching her left shoulder first. Roman Catholics make the sign of the cross touching their left shoulder first, and then their right shoulder secondly.

Dialogzitate:

Mary Katherine Gallagher: [coming home late after auditioning] I stayed after school to study business.

Bezüge zu anderen Titeln:

Verweis/Anspielung/Erwähnung in For Pete's Wake (2004)

Soundtrack:

HANDS TO HEAVEN

Reply to SamRag comment : This movie rocks

Ceirtanly Molly Shannon is one of the most brilliant humorists right now, and yet we hope she still has a lot to do. From her beginnings, she has always been involved in interesting projects dealing with both comedy and drama, but always from the independent wing of the factory. Some of her appearances on TV: Twin Peaks, Will&Grace, Sex and the City and the most popular on Saturday Night Live, performing one of her greatest characters: Mary Katherine Gallagher, who leads this crazy movie. Besides, she also appears in Never Been Kissed, Happiness, American Splendor... It is not a coincidence that all the projects she is involved in are such recommendable. Warning: Superstar is a freak movie. A pure freak film... freak enough to be a cult film. If you enjoy Family Dad, Kevin Spencer, Airport, Top Secret, John Waters' movies, Ghost World... you'll like this one for sure. That character , Mary Katherine Gallagher deserves an honor place in the comedy history. She's totally freak obsessed with being kissed. What else better than becoming a superstar for that purpose? There are all the necessary elements in this high school movie: the typical religious school, 30-year-old playing teenagers, the mean blond girl, the cute-one (that has at least 40 and wears a wig!!), the freaks from the special education class and a talent contest. The movie itself maintains the rhythm , with hilarious moments, and it's so easy going that you can't believe it longs 90 minutes. Of course Molly Shannon puts all the attractiveness to this movie, her character is the freakiest thing ever. Once you have seen it , it will be part of your cult movies to watch with friends and laugh time and again. If you like it, it does mean that you are a freak. But if you don't, it does mean you are a freak , a freak without sense of humor.