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Rob Reiner

Son of comic genius Carl Reiner, Rob Reiner has picked up the family torch and directed some of the most memorable, quotable, and endearing comedies of the last two decades, and he’s no schmuck when it comes to dramas either.

This is a hilarious spoof filled with biting satire about a filmmaker making a documentary (or “rockumentary” if you will) about a once famous raucous British heavy metal band on a disastrous U.S concert tour, featuring the magnificent talents of co-stars/co-scripters Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer. This granddaddy of the mocumentary speaks to the hard rockin’, air guitar playing 14-year-old boy in us all.

In this low-key sleeper hit based on a Stephen King story four young boys in 1959 Oregon set out on a camping trip in order to see a dead body one of them accidentally found. This is a loving memoir to a simpler time with an exceptionally talented young cast tentatively taking the steps on a road that leads to maturity.

Reiner turns a wry, even caustic, eye on men and women in friendship and in love, and that gray area in between. This is an engaging and smartly performed comedy about a pair of longtime platonic friends who turn a feud into a lasting friendship, determined not to let sex mess up a great relationship, until love threatens to ruin everything.

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Carrey and Diaz to play a "Little Game Without Consequence"

By EdwardHavens

September 1st, 2006

A few months ago, news broke about Italian director Gabriele Muccino, who is making his English-language debut with the upcoming Will Smith drama "The Pursuit of Happyness," doing an American studio remake of a 2004 French movie called "A Little Game Without Consequence." FilmJerk.com has learned that the new film will reteam "The Mask" co-stars Jim Carrey and Cameron Diaz for the first time in twelve years.

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Based on a French play by Jean Dell and Gérald Sibleyras, "Consequence" follows Brad (Carrey) and Claire (Diaz), a seemingly perfect couple who pretend to break up shortly after their fifth anniversary, only to discover most of their friends and family didn't really like them as a couple in the first place. The film appears to feel similiar in tone to Muccino's "L'Ultimo Bacio" (itself being remade in America asa the Zach Braff dramedy "The Last Kiss"), equal parts comedy and drama, as Brad and Claire find the path to true love is much rockier than either of them anticipated. Will Claire stay in Los Angeles with movie producer Stuart, an old childhood friend of Brad's, or will she return to New York CIty and be with her soulmate, who is now living with his ex-girlfriend Holly?

Filming begins in New York City on October 23. Focus Features has yet to set a release date, but based on the production start date, we can expect to see the film in theatres in late 2007.


The Scorecard
Little Game Without Consequence
Director: Gabriele Muccino
Writer: Allan Loeb, based on the 2004 film "Un Petit Jeu Sans Conséquence" written by Bernard Rapp and the play by Jean Dell and Gérald Sibleyras
Producers: Alain Chabat, Stephanie Danan, Domenico Procacci
: Production Start Date: October 23, 2006
: Production Location: New York City
: Distributor: Focus Features