FUBAR (2002)

Original title

Fubar

Directed by

Michael Dowse

Genre

comedy film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 16m

Rated

R

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 56 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two lifelong friends who love heavy metal live their lives in Calgary, Alberta. They hang out, get into fistfights, and try to get by. The film follows their antics in a loose, made-up style.

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What happens

FUBAR is a 2002 Canadian comedy film directed by Michael Dowse and written by Dave Lawrence, Dowse and Paul Spence, following the lives of two lifelong friends and head-bangers, Terry Cahill and Dean Murdoch. It debuted at the Sundance Film Festival. Since its release, it has gained a cult status in North America, particularly in Western Canada. Filmed and set in and around Calgary, Alberta, it was shot on a Canon XL1, on a shoestring budget; Lawrence maxed out his credit card, and his father refinanced their family home, to complete it. The film features characters created by Lawrence and Paul Spence that they developed based on the head-banger subculture. Terry Cahill, one of the main characters, played by Lawrence, was based on a character he created at Loose Moose Theatre in the mid-'90s. Many people who appear in the movie (including the fist-fighters) were bystanders who thought that the filmmakers were shooting a documentary on the common man. FUBAR did not have a fully-written script, only a rough outline from which the actors improvised. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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