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Mister America
Mister America is a 2019 American mockumentary film directed by Eric Notarnicola and starring Tim Heidecker. Produced by Abso Lutely Productions, the film is a spin-off of their On Cinema web series for Adult Swim, in which Heidecker portrays a fictionalized version of himself who reviews films with fellow comedian Gregg Turkington; it follows Heidecker as he runs for the office of San Bernardino County district attorney, attempting to unseat the incumbent D.A. that previously attempted to imprison him in a mass murder charge. The film has received mixed reviews from critics.
Tim Heidecker is the host of the web series On Cinema at the Cinema, where he and a cast of guests review films. After transitioning to being an electronic musician and hosting a music festival, he faces murder charges when 20 people overdose and die at the event and an additional 156 are hospitalized. He ends up beating the charge with a hung jury mistrial and sets out to become district attorney of San Bernardino County, despite not being an attorney or a resident of San Bernardino and to take revenge on Vincent Rosetti, the prosecutor of his case.
The film begins with a small crew following Heidecker going door to door to drum up enough signatures for him to be on the ballot as a third party candidate. He works with his campaign manager Toni Newman, who was also the sole juror to not find Heidecker guilty at his murder trial. The duo have an ad campaign made up of social media posts and yard signs mocking Rosetti as a rat and Heidecker briefly confronts him on camera before the D.A. drives away with no comment. Heidecker starts to crack under the pressure, excessively drinking and using the TCH vape system that previously addicted him and was responsible for killing the youth at his music festival.
Newman attempts to get press coverage that falls through at the last minute, fails to buy an ad in the local paper on time, and attempts to stage a debate where neither of Heidecker's opponents attend. Among the six crowd members is Heidecker's frequent guest host from On Cinema at the Cinema, Gregg Turkington. Turkington reaches out to the film crew to convince them to abandon the project and see Heidecker as a criminal and failure who has no passion for film. Heidecker has a meltdown and storms out of the event. Even though he and Newman forge several signatures, his name does not appear on the ballot and Rosetti is re-elected.
In a drug-induced haze, Heidecker calls Rosetti from the hotel room that doubles as his campaign headquarters and starts out gracefully conceding and offering congratulations before devolving into insults and threats. He passes out and the next day, he takes the crew to the condemned site of the music festival, where he creates a makeshift memorial to the youth who died.
Mark Proksch, Jimmy McNichol and Joe Estevez also appear via archive footage
The filmmakers preferred using non-actors to elicit genuine responses and the impression of a real documentary film and auditioned around 10 actresses for the part of Toni, on Gregg's recommendation. The acting was largely improvised from a minimal script and evolved from a prospective Web special into a full-length feature film spontaneously. While editing, the filmmakers looked for opportunities to include backstory in the documentary that would make it more accessible to viewers who were not familiar with the Web series. Interior filming was shot in the San Gabriel Valley.
The film's world premiere was as a part of Beyond Fest 2019 at Grauman's Egyptian Theatre, with comedian Nathan Fielder moderating the event. It was released in select theaters in the United States on October 9, 2019, by Magnolia Pictures. It is by far the third film with involvement from The Cartoon Network, Inc. to receive a full theatrical release, after The Powerpuff Girls Movie and Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters. As with the latter, Williams Street was involved with production (Adult Swim distributed the web series) and Warner Bros. Pictures was not involved in distribution due to the former's box office failure.
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Mister America
Mister America is a 2019 American mockumentary film directed by Eric Notarnicola and starring Tim Heidecker. Produced by Abso Lutely Productions, the film is a spin-off of their On Cinema web series for Adult Swim, in which Heidecker portrays a fictionalized version of himself who reviews films with fellow comedian Gregg Turkington; it follows Heidecker as he runs for the office of San Bernardino County district attorney, attempting to unseat the incumbent D.A. that previously attempted to imprison him in a mass murder charge. The film has received mixed reviews from critics.
Tim Heidecker is the host of the web series On Cinema at the Cinema, where he and a cast of guests review films. After transitioning to being an electronic musician and hosting a music festival, he faces murder charges when 20 people overdose and die at the event and an additional 156 are hospitalized. He ends up beating the charge with a hung jury mistrial and sets out to become district attorney of San Bernardino County, despite not being an attorney or a resident of San Bernardino and to take revenge on Vincent Rosetti, the prosecutor of his case.
The film begins with a small crew following Heidecker going door to door to drum up enough signatures for him to be on the ballot as a third party candidate. He works with his campaign manager Toni Newman, who was also the sole juror to not find Heidecker guilty at his murder trial. The duo have an ad campaign made up of social media posts and yard signs mocking Rosetti as a rat and Heidecker briefly confronts him on camera before the D.A. drives away with no comment. Heidecker starts to crack under the pressure, excessively drinking and using the TCH vape system that previously addicted him and was responsible for killing the youth at his music festival.
Newman attempts to get press coverage that falls through at the last minute, fails to buy an ad in the local paper on time, and attempts to stage a debate where neither of Heidecker's opponents attend. Among the six crowd members is Heidecker's frequent guest host from On Cinema at the Cinema, Gregg Turkington. Turkington reaches out to the film crew to convince them to abandon the project and see Heidecker as a criminal and failure who has no passion for film. Heidecker has a meltdown and storms out of the event. Even though he and Newman forge several signatures, his name does not appear on the ballot and Rosetti is re-elected.
In a drug-induced haze, Heidecker calls Rosetti from the hotel room that doubles as his campaign headquarters and starts out gracefully conceding and offering congratulations before devolving into insults and threats. He passes out and the next day, he takes the crew to the condemned site of the music festival, where he creates a makeshift memorial to the youth who died.
Mark Proksch, Jimmy McNichol and Joe Estevez also appear via archive footage
The filmmakers preferred using non-actors to elicit genuine responses and the impression of a real documentary film and auditioned around 10 actresses for the part of Toni, on Gregg's recommendation. The acting was largely improvised from a minimal script and evolved from a prospective Web special into a full-length feature film spontaneously. While editing, the filmmakers looked for opportunities to include backstory in the documentary that would make it more accessible to viewers who were not familiar with the Web series. Interior filming was shot in the San Gabriel Valley.
The film's world premiere was as a part of Beyond Fest 2019 at Grauman's Egyptian Theatre, with comedian Nathan Fielder moderating the event. It was released in select theaters in the United States on October 9, 2019, by Magnolia Pictures. It is by far the third film with involvement from The Cartoon Network, Inc. to receive a full theatrical release, after The Powerpuff Girls Movie and Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters. As with the latter, Williams Street was involved with production (Adult Swim distributed the web series) and Warner Bros. Pictures was not involved in distribution due to the former's box office failure.