Saving Silverman
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| Directed by | Dennis Dugan |
| Produced by | Neal H. Moritz |
| Written by | Hank Nelken Greg DePaul |
| Starring | Steve Zahn Jack Black Jason Biggs Amanda Peet Amanda Detmer R. Lee Ermey and Neil Diamond |
| Music by | Mike Simpson |
| Distributed by | Sony |
| Release date(s) | February 9, 2001 |
| Running time | 90 min. |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $22 million |
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Saving Silverman is a 2001 comedy film, directed by Dennis Dugan. It stars Steve Zahn, Jack Black, Jason Biggs (in the title role), Amanda Peet, Amanda Detmer and R Lee Ermey. Neil Diamond has a small but important cameo role playing himself; Dugan himself has a cameo.
Outside the USA, the film was titled "Evil Woman".
Darren, J.D. and Wayne are long time best friends and Neil Diamond fans who have formed their own tribute band. Darren meets the lovely Judith, whose controlling behavior soon threatens the band and Darren's friendships. J.D. and Wayne are convinced that Judith is the wrong woman for Darren. But when a wedding date is announced, and Darren's high school crush returns to town to take her final vows as a nun, the friends are in a race against time to rescue Darren so he can reunite with his "one and only". Nothing is out of bounds as deceit, trickery, bribery, kidnapping, shock rods, dart guns, and pop star intervention all come into play.
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[edit] Plot Summary
Darren Silverman (Biggs), Wayne Lefessier (Zahn) and J.D. McNugent (Black), best friends since fifth grade and Neil Diamond fans throughout, form a cover band called Diamonds in the Rough. After a performance, relaxing at a bar, Darren is introduced to the beautiful but domineering psychologist Judith Fessbeggler(Peet). Six weeks into their relationship Judith is still making Darren watch her change clothes, and though sleeping together produces satisfaction for her, Darren gets nothing but a sore jaw.
After a disastrous visit to Darren's friends, Judith forbids him to see them anymore. She further demands that he quit the band, get gluteal implants, burn his Neil Diamond albums, wax her legs, and attend relationship counselling under her care. Wayne and J.D. decide to save Silverman from her by attempting to bribe her, armwrestle her, and shock her with faked photos of Darren cheating, all to no avail.
Wayne and J.D. redouble their efforts by trying to reunite Darren with his "one and only", Sandy Perkus(Detmer), when she comes to town to take her final vows as a nun. When Darren and Judith announce their engagement, they kidnap Judith then fake her death by planting a dug-up corpse in her car, which they propel over a cliff to a fiery doom. Wayne and J.D. then visit Coach Norton(Ermey) in jail for advice; he states flatly that they should kill Judith.
Sandy's feelings for Darren are rekindled, but he can't get the manipulative Judith out of his mind. Sandy, disheartened, returns to the convent, but Darren runs 30 miles there to win her back.
In a counselling session in the basement, chained to an engine block, Judith convinces J.D. he is gay. She then knocks him unconscious with a lamp, steals his keys, and escapes from captivity with the truck, only to be taken down with a tranquilizer dart outside the police station by Wayne. Wayne chains her up, but only allows her to escape again. She run to Darren's house in time to see Sandy and Darren kissing, and manipulates Darren into admitting that he promised to marry her. Sandy, disheartened, returns to the convent.
On the brink of Sandy's final vows as a nun, J.D. and Wayne convince her that Darren still loves her. The group kidnaps Neil Diamond and convinces him to help Darren and Sandy be together. At the wedding, Neil stalls the proceedings with a song, while Wayne and Judith beat each other up, Darren and Sandy reunite, and J.D. arrives holding Coach in his arms.
On stage at the Neil Diamond concert that night, the priest weds Darren to Sandy, Wayne to Judith, and J.D. to Coach; the entire cast sings Holly Holy.
[edit] Reception
Reviews of the film were broadly negative,[1] and box office revenues were low. Worldwide theatrical gross was $26,086,706.[2] Rental income was $21.75M[3] for VHS and $5.19M for DVD.[4]
[edit] Tagline
- They swore nothing could come between them. Then she came along...
- They swore nothing would come between them. Then evil walked in the door - From Evil Woman version
- 2 Best Friends + 1 Girlfriend = WAR
- They've sworn to save Silverman.
[edit] Quotes
- J.D.: Copy that. I'm not gonna make the *imitates static* sound after I say stuff, from now on. McNugent, over and out. *imitates static* That was the last one.
- J.D.: Oh, remember that time in science class I was lighting farts with the Bunsen burner and I singed my ballsack?
- Coach: Remember, boys. Stay away from women! All they want from you is your man juice! If you ever get the kind of urges that cannot be suppressed with hard liquor, then use this! (showing them his right hand)
- Judith: (to Wayne) There is no right girl for you! If you've already met her, then she's probably either killed herself, or become a lesbian!
[edit] References
- ^ Saving Silverman at Rotten Tomatoes. Rottentomatoes.com. Retrieved on 2007-01-31.
- ^ Box Office for Saving Silverman at Box Office Mojo. boxofficemojo.com. Retrieved on 2007-01-31.
- ^ VHS Rental info for Saving Silverman at Video Business. videobusiness.com. Retrieved on 2007-01-31.
- ^ DVD Rental info for Saving Silverman at Video Business. videobusiness.com. Retrieved on 2007-01-31.
[edit] Trivia
The name of the high school that they went to is Wheaton High, the same school that John Belushi attended in real life.
