Jim Carrey What Is Love Movie

1998 moving picture past John Fortenberry

A Night at the Roxbury
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	John Fortenberry
Written by	Will Ferrell Chris Kattan Steve Koren
Produced by	Lorne Michaels Amy Heckerling
Starring	Will Ferrell Chris Kattan Dan Hedaya Molly Shannon Richard Grieco
Cinematography	Francis Kenny
Edited by	Jay Kamen
Music by	David Kitay
Production company	SNL Studios
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	October 2, 1998 (1998-10-02)
Running time	82 minutes^[1]
Country	United states of america
Language	English
Budget	$17 one thousand thousand
Box office	$xxx.3 million^[two] ^[three]

A Dark at the Roxbury is a 1998 American comedy film based on a recurring sketch on idiot box'south long-running Saturday Dark Alive called "The Roxbury Guys". Saturday Night Live regulars Will Ferrell, Chris Kattan, Molly Shannon, Marking McKinney and Colin Quinn star. This flick expands on the original Sabbatum Nighttime Alive sketches where the Roxbury Guys were joined past that week's host, and bobbed their heads to Haddaway's hit song "What Is Love" while being comically rejected past women at various clubs.

Other roles include Jennifer Coolidge as a police force officer, Chazz Palminteri'due south uncredited role as gregarious night social club impresario Mr. Benny Zadir, and Colin Quinn as his bodyguard Dooey. Ex-SNLer Marking McKinney has a cameo as a priest officiating a wedding.

Plot [edit]

Steve and Doug Butabi are sons of a wealthy businessman and in their spare fourth dimension, enjoy frequenting nightclubs, where they bob their heads in unison to Eurodance, an European subgenre of EDM, and fail miserably at picking up women. Their goal is to political party at the Roxbury, a fabled Los Angeles nightclub where they are continually denied entry by a hulking bouncer.

By mean solar day, the brothers work at an artificial establish store owned past their wealthy father, Kamehl. They spend most of their time goofing off, heedless about opening a club as cool equally the Roxbury together, and Doug using credit card transactions as an excuse to flirt with a card blessing associate via telephone that he calls "Credit Vixen." The store shares a wall with a lighting emporium owned by Fred Sanderson. Mr. Butabi and Mr. Sanderson hope that Steve and Emily, Sanderson'south girl, volition marry, uniting the families and the businesses to form the starting time plant-lamp emporium.

After a 24-hour interval at the embankment, the brothers determine that night was to be the night they would finally go into the Roxbury. Returning domicile, Doug gets into a heated argument with their father about going out clubbing instead of staying dwelling house. Their father has planned a dinner political party with Emily and her parents. The angered Mr. Butabi then refuses them access to their BMW car and their cell phones. They are given enormous jail cell phones by their mother, Barbara, and allowed utilize of the institute store's delivery van. The brothers become to the Roxbury when they are asked their names, being told they're not on the list and are denied entry.

After discovering that they might ransom their way into the club, the brothers bulldoze around looking for an ATM slamming on the brakes once more and again while in traffic causing them to go into a fender-bender with Richard Grieco. Grieco explains to the girl with him in the passenger seat that his car is a racing car and therefore illegal. To avoid a lawsuit, Grieco uses his fame to get them into the popular society. In that location, they run across the possessor of the Roxbury, Benny Zadir, who listens to their thought for their own nightclub. He likes them and sets up a coming together with them for the next day. The brothers also meet a pair of women at the Roxbury: Vivica and Cambi, who see them talking to Zadir and retrieve that the brothers are rich. The women later sleep with Doug and Steve, leading the brothers to think they are in serious relationships.

On the way to the after-party at Mr. Zadir's house, the brothers annoy his commuter and bodyguard Dooey by making him stop to buy fluffy whip and making jokes about sleeping with his parents. As revenge, the next day, Dooey refuses them entry into Zadir'south office for their meeting. He tells the brothers that Zadir was drunk out of his mind last night and does not know who they are. In reality, Zadir wanted to come across them, but does not accept their contact data.

Vivica and Cambi suspension upward with the Butabi brothers after realizing they are not really wealthy. Afterward, the brothers contend over who is at fault for their sudden misfortune and Doug moves out of their shared sleeping room and into the guest house. Meanwhile, Steve is forced into an date with Emily by his father. The hymeneals is held in the lawn of the Butabi residence, merely is interrupted by Doug. The brothers reconcile and go out, but their friend and personal trainer Craig, reveals his feelings for Emily, and marries her. Afterwards, Grieco consoles Mr. Butabi to help him understand that Steve was not fix for marriage, and that Butabi is as well difficult on Doug.

After the Butabi brothers reconcile with their begetter and Doug moves dorsum into their bedroom, the moving picture ends as the brothers happen upon a hot new club. The building is unique in that the exterior is synthetic to resemble the interior of a nightclub, and the interior resembles a street—this was an idea pitched by Doug and Steve to Zadir earlier in the film. Attempting to enter, they're asked their names and much to their surprise are told they are on the listing. They walk into the club where they detect Zadir and Zadir reveals that to reward their thought, he has made them part-owners of the club. Their new-plant success comes full circle when they meet two women in the club: Doug'southward phone operator from the credit menu company ("Credit Vixen") and a police officer with whom Steve flirted while getting a ticket.

Bandage [edit]

Volition Ferrell every bit Steve Butabi
Jim Carrey as Joe Butabi
Chris Kattan as Doug Butabi
Loni Anderson equally Barbara Butabi
Dan Hedaya equally Kamehl Butabi
Molly Shannon as Emily Sanderson
Dwayne Hickman equally Fred Sanderson
Maree Cheatham equally Mabel Sanderson
Lochlyn Munro as Craig
Richard Grieco equally himself
Kristen Dalton as Grieco's lady
Jennifer Coolidge every bit Hottie Police Officer
Meredith Scott Lynn as Credit Vixen
Gigi Rice as Vivica
Elisa Donovan as Cambi
Michael Clarke Duncan as Roxbury bouncer
Colin Quinn as Dooey
Twink Caplan as Crying flower client
Eva Mendes as Bridesmaid
Mark McKinney equally Father Williams
Chazz Palminteri every bit Mr. Benny Zadir
Joe Ranft as the hottie dancer
Agata Gotova equally Waitress

Soundtrack [edit]

A Night at the Roxbury
Soundtrack album by Diverse Artists
Released	September 29, 1998
Genre	Eurodance, dance-pop, house, synthpop, disco
Length	60:40
Characterization	DreamWorks
Producer	David Kitay

Production [edit]

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In May 2019, Kattan claimed in his memoir that he was pressured by producer Lorne Michaels to accept sex with Amy Heckerling so she would straight the motion-picture show (although she ultimately only produced, rather than directed it).^[5]

Reception [edit]

A Night at the Roxbury was heavily panned by critics. On review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes, it received a rating of 9% and an boilerplate rating of iii.4/10 based on 54 reviews. The site's critical consensus reads: "A Night at the Roxbury has the aforementioned problems as the worst SNL movies: one-note characters and plots unreasonably stretched to characteristic length runtime".^[six] Anita Gates of The New York Times acknowledged the motion-picture show's appeal, simply reasoned that information technology was "a lot like the brothers themselves: undeniably pathetic but strangely lovable. Still, do y'all really want to spend an hr and a half with them in a dark room?"^[7] Roger Ebert observed that "the sad thing about A Night at the Roxbury is that the characters are in a ane-joke movie, and they're the joke... It'south the first comedy I've attended where y'all experience that to laugh would be cruel to the characters."^[8]

References [edit]

^ "A Nighttime AT THE ROXBURY (15)". United International Pictures. British Board of Film Classification. January seven, 1999. Retrieved August 27, 2014.
^ "'LA Times' – Studios Meet $$ in Less-Than-Worthy 'SNL' Film Spinoffs". Archived from the original on May 9, 2006. Retrieved 2008-03-25 .
^ "A Dark at the Roxbury (1998) – Box Office Mojo". BoxOfficeMojo.com. November 13, 1998. Retrieved March seven, 2014.
^ "Various—A Night At The Roxbury (Music from the Motility Picture)". Discogs . Retrieved Jan 30, 2012.
^ Neilan, Dan (May 29, 2019). "Chris Kattan'south Got a Disturbing Story About Lorne Michaels and A Night at the Roxbury". The A.Five. Gild.
^ "A Nighttime at the Roxbury". Rotten Tomatoes . Retrieved May ii, 2021.
^ "A Night at the Roxbury - Picture REVIEW; A Lucky Break for the Terminally Uncool". The New York Times. Oct two, 1998.
^ "A Night at the Roxbury". Chicago Lord's day-Times. October 2, 1998.