I want to say at the outset that this is a great documentary. Its much better than the 7 I gave it, but I had to knock it down a few because its subject matter, Troy Duffy, is so incredibly unpleasant I never want to see him again.
This is the story of Troy Duffy a man who managed to become the hottest guy in Hollywood for all of six minutes before it all went away and left him with nothing thanks to his own wonderful personality.
The documentary, made by two ex-friends, takes him from the first glory days as Troy signs with Miramax to have his script produced with him directing, with perks and it follows as it all unravels at lightning speed and he's left with...nothing.
The footage, shot by "friends" with unimagined access, shows Troy as he tries to get his movie made while his ego explodes. Troy can't shut up, or if he can he doesn't know when to. He is one of the most foul mouthed people I've ever seen with even the simplest of sentences peppered with four or five f-words. At first he seems ballsy and no nonsense but rapidly he becomes drunk, gruff and unpleasant with his tell it like it is (or how he feels) attitude becoming a bludgeon to everyone around him. Many friends fall away. The film makers, who were friends, apparently admitted that on some level the film is skewed by their dislike for Duffy, but seeing as there is so much footage of Duffy in action, the amount of film/tape showing him in a good light has to be infinitely small. He's an ill mannered jerk, whom even his brothers seem to think will screw up. And screw up he does as the film goes into "turn around" and he's forced to come up with Plan B as his money and "power" begins to drop away. I don't want to say more since what happens is the movie.
Its a brutal, ugly, unpleasant and uncomfortable story. Its 90 minutes with a jerk and its compellingly watchable (only once since he's too hateful to experience more than that). Troy Duffy will forever be the yardstick by which Hollywood jerks are measured.
This is the story of Troy Duffy a man who managed to become the hottest guy in Hollywood for all of six minutes before it all went away and left him with nothing thanks to his own wonderful personality.
The documentary, made by two ex-friends, takes him from the first glory days as Troy signs with Miramax to have his script produced with him directing, with perks and it follows as it all unravels at lightning speed and he's left with...nothing.
The footage, shot by "friends" with unimagined access, shows Troy as he tries to get his movie made while his ego explodes. Troy can't shut up, or if he can he doesn't know when to. He is one of the most foul mouthed people I've ever seen with even the simplest of sentences peppered with four or five f-words. At first he seems ballsy and no nonsense but rapidly he becomes drunk, gruff and unpleasant with his tell it like it is (or how he feels) attitude becoming a bludgeon to everyone around him. Many friends fall away. The film makers, who were friends, apparently admitted that on some level the film is skewed by their dislike for Duffy, but seeing as there is so much footage of Duffy in action, the amount of film/tape showing him in a good light has to be infinitely small. He's an ill mannered jerk, whom even his brothers seem to think will screw up. And screw up he does as the film goes into "turn around" and he's forced to come up with Plan B as his money and "power" begins to drop away. I don't want to say more since what happens is the movie.
Its a brutal, ugly, unpleasant and uncomfortable story. Its 90 minutes with a jerk and its compellingly watchable (only once since he's too hateful to experience more than that). Troy Duffy will forever be the yardstick by which Hollywood jerks are measured.