Saving Silverman

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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
Cinematography	Arthur Albert
Editing by	Patrick J. Don Vito Debra Neil-Fisher
Distributed by	Sony
Release date(s)	February 9 2001
Running time	90 min.
Language	English
Budget	$22 million
Gross revenue	$26 million
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Saving Silverman is a 2001 black 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.

Contents 1 Cast 2 Plot Summary 3 Production 4 Reception 5 Tagline 6 Quotes 7 Trivia 8 References

Cast

Jason Biggs as Darren Silverman

Steve Zahn as Wayne Lefessier

Jack Black as J.D. McNugent

Amanda Peet as Judith Fessbeggler

Amanda Detmer as Sandy Perkus

R. Lee Ermey as Coach Norton

Neil Diamond as Himself

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. In the basement again, Wayne chains her up, but while he's feeding her a juicy sandwich which drips between her breasts, she seduces him into releasing one of her hands, and she escapes. Judith runs to Darren's house in time to see Sandy and Darren kiss, and shames him into admitting that he promised to marry Judith. Sandy, disheartened, returns to the convent.

J.D. and Wayne arrive at the convent on the brink of Sandy's final vows as a nun, but convince her that Darren still loves her. The trio kidnaps Neil Diamond, convincing him to help Darren and Sandy reunite. At the wedding, Neil stalls the proceedings with a song, while Wayne and Judith beat each other up(as love play), Darren and Sandy reunite, and J.D. arrives holding Coach in his arms, and come out as gay to each other.

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.

Production

Filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, at a cost of $22 million.

Reception

Reviews of the film were broadly negative, earning the film a 17% critic rating at Rotten Tomatoes^[1] and 22/100 at MetaCritic.com ^[2], though user reviews were more favorable at 55% and 78/200, respectively. Box office revenues were low. Worldwide theatrical gross was $26,086,706.^[3] Rental income was $21.75M^[4] for VHS and $5.19M for DVD.^[5]

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.

Quotes

• J.D.: (to Darren) 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.: (to Sandy) 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!

Trivia

• The name of the high school that they went to is Wheaton High, the same school that John Belushi attended in real life.
• The guy at the bar is Kyle Gass who, along with Silverman co star Jack Black, is part of the comedic rock band Tenacious D.

References

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