Roger Dodger (2002)

Directed by

Dylan Kidd

Genre

drama film, comedy film, comedy of manners, comedy drama, sex comedy, coming-of-age film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 46m

Rated

R

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 210 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A slick ad man gives his naive teenage nephew a crash course in picking up women during a single night in New York City. The lessons backfire as the nephew starts to see through his uncle's manipulative games.

wittycynicalsharp-tonguedbittersweeturbantalkyuncomfortable

What happens

Roger Dodger is a 2002 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Dylan Kidd. It stars Campbell Scott, Jesse Eisenberg (in his feature film debut), Isabella Rossellini, Elizabeth Berkley and Jennifer Beals. The film follows Roger Swanson (Scott), a womanizing ad executive, who takes his nephew Nick (Eisenberg) out for a night in the city after the young man asks him for advice on seducing women. The film debuted at the inaugural Tribeca Festival to critical acclaim and won the award for Best Narrative Feature for Kidd. It went on to win the FIPRESCI Prize and the Lion of the Future for Best Debut Film at the Venice Film Festival. Roger Dodger was given a limited release by Artisan Entertainment on October 25, 2002. Both Scott and Eisenberg received awards notices, with Scott winning a National Board of Review Award for Best Male Lead and Eisenberg earning a Gotham Award nomination for Breakthrough Actor. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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