2013 · comedy · coming-of-age
Movie 43
Directed by Steven Brill1h 38m2013
A series of interconnected short films are the backdrop for a maniac screenwriter who pitches insane storylines featuring some of Hollywood's biggest and brightest. In some countries, like the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, the structure differs. Instead of a pitch, the films are connected by a group of three teenagers searching for the most banned film in the world, Movie 43, which will ultimately lead to the destruction of civilization.
Our read: Movie 43 (2013) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy · coming-of-age entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / coming-of-age, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- gentle
Watching Movie 43 tonight? Spin for your lens.
Everyone on the couch spins once and gets one craft to watch for. After the credits, compare what you caught.
Your lens for tonight
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Everyone on the couch gets one craft to watch for. Spin the wheel to get yours. Sound on: the narrator reads your mission.
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How Movie 43 feels to watch.
Each axis is scored by hand, not from votes or genre averages. The bar uses the film's own colours.
What watching it is actually like.
“You want to rubberneck Hollywood's most infamous gross-out sketch catastrophe.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if cringe, bodily humiliation, or mean-spirited shock comedy repels you.
Eight films that feel like this one.
Closest in the twelve-axis space, not “people also liked”. All films like Movie 43, with why →
Discussion
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