American Dreamz (2006)

Calificación de los usuarios:

5.7/10   

Director:

Paul Weitz

Guionista (WGA):

Paul Weitz (written by)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

21 abril 2006 (USA)

Género:

Comedia | Música

Frase comercial:

Imagine a country where the President never reads the newspaper, where the government goes to war for all the wrong reasons, and more people vote for a pop idol than their next President.

Plot:

The new season of "American Dreamz," the wildly popular television singing contest, has captured the country's attention, as the competition looks to be between a young Midwestern gal (Moore) and a showtunes-loving young man from Orange County (Golzari). Recently awakened President Staton (Quaid) even wants in on the craze, as he signs up for the potential explosive season finale.

Plot Keywords:

Chief Of Staff | Contest | Satire | Singing | Television

Comentarios de los usuarios:

a RARE satire because it breaks taboos about what we can satirize

Reparto

Hugh Grant	...	Martin Tweed
Dennis Quaid	...	President Joseph Staton
Mandy Moore	...	Sally Kendoo
Willem Dafoe	...	Chief of Staff
Chris Klein	...	William Williams
Jennifer Coolidge	...	Martha Kendoo
Sam Golzari	...	Omer Obeidi
Marcia Gay Harden	...	First Lady Staton
Seth Meyers	...	Chet Krogl
John Cho	...	Frank Ittles
Judy Greer	...	Deborah Accordo
Bernard White	...	Agha Babur
Tony Yalda	...	Iqbal Riza
Noureen DeWulf	...	Shazzy Riza
Shohreh Aghdashloo	...	Nazneen Riza

También conocida como:

American Dreamz (Australia)
American Dreamz (Chile) (Mexico) [es]
Muriendo por un sueño (Argentina) (video title) [es]

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for brief strong language and some sexual references.

Duración:

107 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

SDDS | Dolby Digital | DTS

Clasificación:

UK:12A | Ireland:12A | Australia:M | Switzerland:7 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:7 (canton of Geneva) | Singapore:PG | Germany:6 | France:U | Sweden:Btl | Argentina:13 | Philippines:PG-13 (MTRCB) | Ireland:PG (video rating) | USA:PG-13 (certificate #42341) | Iceland:L | Netherlands:6 | South Korea:12

Locaciones de Filmación:

Los Angeles Center Studios - 450 S. Bixel Street, Downtown, Los Angeles, California, USA

Compañía:

NBC Universal Television

Trivialidades:

Writer/director Paul Weitz claims that he wrote the original draft of the American Dreamz (2006) script before he had ever watched an episode of "American Idol: The Search for a Superstar" (2002).

Errores:

Anacronismos: Sally's boyfriend and the production staff look through a dressing room keyhole. The keyhole is to a modern tumbler lock, which can't be seen through.

Citas:

First Lady: [about the re-election] You're wondering, what was the point of it all? Why you? Why now? Why did the Lord pick you out of all people? What are your special qualifications? And did the Lord even pick you, or was it just having really, really powerful friends?

Conexiones de Película:

References "The Oprah Winfrey Show" (1986)

Banda de Sonido:

Never Felt This Way Before

a RARE satire because it breaks taboos about what we can satirize

Perhaps this film has gotten mixed reviews because it breaks an unwritten code about how far a movie can go in satirizing America's myths. When before have we seen the President of the United States on happy pills and robotic-ally pro- gram-med by his Rovelike handlers ? Who would suggest that an Al-Quaeda training camp could be funny and that someone in it has up scale all-American relatives in Orange County, California ? Could our love affair with American Idol be an escape from the collapsing American middle class way of life ?

This film IS often funny but it doesn't want that humor to stay in a feel good zone. It WANTS to make us uncomfortable and to face things that we don't want to look at too closely. The "sin" that this film has committed is that it wants us to grow up.