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Pauly Shore Is Dead

2003 · 82 min

A cringe-comedy mockumentary that satirizes fame with self-deprecating humor and absurd celebrity cameos, feeling like a trainwreck you can't look away from.

Directed by
Pauly Shore
Genres
Comedy
Tagline
Hollywood Will Never Be the Same
Overview
Hollywood comedian/actor Pauly Shore loses everything: his house, nobody in Hollywood wants to represent him, he moves back home with his mom and is now parking cars at the Comedy Store. Then one night when he's up in his mom's loft, a dead famous comedian appears who tells Pauly to kill himself cause he'll go down as a comedic genius who died before his time. Pauly then fakes his own death, and the media goes crazy.

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Directed by
Pauly Shore
Genres
Comedy
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How it feels

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Tone
  • satiricalstrength 3 of 3
  • absurdstrength 2 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • celebrity
  • media
  • identity
  • redemption
  • ambition
Places
  • big city
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • mockumentary
  • true story
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language strong
  • Violence mild
  • Sex strong
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror1
Humour8
Realism5
Romance2
Tension3
Darkness6
Complexity4
Emotional weight4

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Genres
comedy
Directed by
Pauly Shore
Written by
Kirk Fox, Pauly Shore
Starring
Pauly Shore, Jaime Bergman, Kirk Fox, Charlie Sheen, Vince Vaughn, Fred Durst, Verne Troyer, W. Earl Brown
Music
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Cinematography
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Runtime
82 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
English

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