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Jiminy Glick in Lalawood (2004)

Jiminy Glick in Lalawood poster
Directed by
Vadim Jean
Genre
comedy film, LGBTQ-related film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 30m
Rated
R
Rating
4.3 of 10 from 40 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Martin Short plays Jiminy Glick, a heavy-set movie critic who finds himself wrapped up in a murder investigation during the Toronto International Film Festival. He interacts with many real-life celebrities while trying to solve the crime.

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What happens

Jiminy Glick in Lalawood is a 2004 American comedy film starring Martin Short as Jiminy Glick, a morbidly obese movie critic who is involved in a murder case at the Toronto International Film Festival. The supporting cast features Jan Hooks, Matthew Gray Gubler, Linda Cardellini, Janeane Garofalo, John Michael Higgins, Elizabeth Perkins, Mo Collins, and Aries Spears, with numerous cinema luminaries playing themselves, such as Willem Dafoe, Whoopi Goldberg, Jake Gyllenhaal, Kevin Kline, Rob Lowe, Steve Martin, Kurt Russell, Susan Sarandon, Chloë Sevigny, Sharon Stone, Kiefer Sutherland and Forest Whitaker. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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