A young man from New Jersey comes to Los Angeles to visit his slightly crazy cousin and gets mistaken for a successful New York artist.
Acting
Andy Dick playing unhinged is barely acting, yet compelling.
Writing
The 'artist' scam premise is genuinely clever.
Director
Irving Schwartz
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Joshua Leonard was fresh off The Blair Witch Project's massive success, making this his deliberate pivot to comedy.
This captures peak early-2000s LA art scene pretension right before social media made everyone perform identity constantly.
US
