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Premiere:
February 15, 2002.
It has been shown on the 2001 Sundance Film Festival on January 19th,
January 20th and January 27th, 2001. DVD release: August 6, 2002.
Australia: 14 March 2002. Russia: 31 May 2002.
Spain: 28 June 2002. Mexico: 20 September 2002.
Estonia: 11 October 2002. Denmark: 25 October 2002.
Germany: 14 November 2002. Austria: 15 November
2002. UK: 15 November 2002. Belgium: 4 December
2002. Norway: 13 December 2002 (video). Poland: 20
December 2002. South Africa: 7 February 2003.
Argentina: 5 March 2003 (video). Iceland: 4 June
2003 (video). Italy: 8 August 2003. |
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Director:
Jay Chandrasekhar. |
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Writers:
Broken Lizard: Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme,
Paul Soter, and Erik Stolhanske.. |
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CAST: |
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STEVE
LEMME
[
Mac
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KEVIN
HEFFERNAN
[
Farva
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JAY
CHANDRASEKHAR
[
Thorny
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PAUL
SOTER
[
Foster
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ERIK
STOLHANSKE
[
Rabbit
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BRIAN
COX
[
Captain O'Hagan
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DANIEL
VON BARGEN
[
Chief Grady
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MARISA
COGHLAN
[
Ursula Hanson
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LYNDA
CARTER
[
Governor Natalie Jessman
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JIM
GAFFIGAN
[
Larry Johnson
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JOHN
BEDFORD-LLOYD
[
Mayor Timber
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AMY
DeLUCIA
[
Bobbi
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MICHAEL WEAVER
[
Officer Rando
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JOHN
CARLINO
[
French Pilot
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JIMMY
NOONAN
[
Galikanokus
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BLANCHARD RYAN
[
Casino Fantastique Billboard Girl
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Credits: |
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Producer:
Richard Perello. Executive Producer: Peter E.
Lengyel. Associate Producers:
Robert Barocci, Amy Minda Cohen, Adam Mazer, William
Rotko, Kevin Weiss. Casting Director:
Jennifer McNamara. Cinematorapher: Joaquin
Baca-Asay. Production Design: Ben Conable.
Costume Design: Melissa Bruning.
Music: .38 Special. Film Editing: Jacob Craycroft,
Kevin Hefferman, Jumbulingan. Art Direction:
Johnny Hardesty. Set Decoration: Jocelyn
Mason. Assistant |
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Director: Kiran Gonzalves. Sound:
David Alvarez. Music Supervisors: Barry Cole, Christopher
Covert. Production Assistant: Dan Kavanaugh. Shot on
Location in Beacon, New York. Distribution: Fox Searchlight
Pictures. A Jersey Shore Films production in association
with Cataland Films. © 2001 Jersey Shore Films / Cataland
Films. |
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Awards: |
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Officially selected as for the 2001 Sundance Film Festival lineup.
Audience Award at the SXSW Film festival. |
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PREMISE:
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A
fast-paced comedy about cops, crime, and killing time. The
Broken Lizard Comedy Group's feature about five Vermont State
Troopers stationed on the Canadian border who spend their time
toying with speeders and sparring with their rivals, the shifty
local police force. |
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Thorny,
Rabbit, Mac and Foster are passable Vermont State Troopers.
Stationed in the boonies on the Canadian border, they spend the
bulk of their time playfully toying with speeders, mind fucking
stoned joyriders and taking impounded sports cars for spins on
the open highway. When they're not on the road, they try to stay
on the good side of their fatherly mentor, Captain O'Hagan, and
avoid their tactless, thick-necked compatriot, Officer Rod
Farva. All in all, they find their work to be pleasantly
unchallenging. |
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Unfortunately,
their quiet existence hasn't gone unnoticed. The state has
targeted their low volume station for a potential budget slash.
Hoping to avoid the axe, the guys buckle down to impress the
higher ups. But success is hard to come by. First, they find
it's not so easy to change their brazen style. Then things get
more complicated as the Troopers start to hit obstacles set by
their law enforcement rivals, the shifty Local Earlville Police
force. The local cops smell the demise of their State
competition and gladly do what they can to speed the shut down. |
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As
things begin to look bleak, the State Troopers' new "by the
book" operation produces an unexpected gift. During a
routine traffic stop, they uncover a drug smuggling operation
running across the border to Canada. Sensing salvation, the
Troopers race
the clock to crack the ring and save their jobs.
But they aren't the only ones in the hunt. The Local cops are
also on the case, hoping to crack it themselves and put the last
nail in their adversary's coffin. |
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The
sprint is on. An elusive cartoon monkey, a Winnebago full of
dope, a bear-groping hunter and a sticky forbidden love affair
between Trooper Foster and lovely Local Officer Ursula Hanson
all cloud the picture as the Troopers scrap for survival. |
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The
Broken Lizard Comedy Group presents a fast-paced comedy about
cops, crime and killing time in... Supertroopers! |
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Writers,
Actors -Broken Lizard, the five man NY and LA based comedy group,
has written and performed together for the past seven years,
creating stage, film and television material. Broken
Lizard originated as Charred Goosebeak, the Colgate University
Sketch Comedy Group. The group re-formed in NYC and began
performing on stage at various comedy clubs enjoying extended
runs with sold-out shows such as "Fishwhimsy" and
"The Return of the Biscuit Champion." |
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Broken
Lizard's first film, The Tinfoil Monkey Agenda, a 30 minute
short, was written and performed by the group in the tradition
of Monty Python. While achieving acclaim in several film
festivals for successfully integrating film narrative with
sketch comedy, The Tinfoil Monkey Agenda also became a launching
pad for the group's first feature film, Puddle Cruiser. |
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Since
its completion, Puddle Cruiser has screened at Sundance, SXSW,
the London and Berlin International Film Festivals, and was
named winner of the Hamptons Film Festival's Grand Prize for
Best Film. After the very successful self-distribution tour of
the film to college campuses throughout the North East, Broken
Lizard completed the negotiations for worldwide distribution
including the television premiere on the Sundance Channel in
January of 2001. Broken Lizard and the tour of Puddle Cruiser
are the subject of the upcoming feature length documentary,
Rodeo Clowns, currently in post-production. |
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Broken
Lizard is currently working under prime-time development deals
with both the NBC and Fox television networks. Both of these
deals follow their latest television production, Safety School,
a prime-time pilot for NBC Television. The
group's next feature Super Troopers, executive produced by Danny
Devito's Jersey Shore Films, was just accepted to the 2001
Sundance Film Festival. |
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Beyond
stage, television and film work, Broken Lizard's portfolio of
video work includes packaged material for a pilot MTV project
and the comedy group's Dante's Levels of Hell has aired
nationally on Comedy Central. Cataland
Films and Richard Perello serve as producers for Broken Lizard.
The group is represented by Creative Artists Agency and 3 Arts
Entertainment. |
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Jay
Chandrasekhar (Director) Named one of Variety's 10 Director's to
Watch 2001. An accomplished filmmaker, comedy writer and
performer, Jay is the director of Broken Lizard, the NYC based
comedy group which for seven years has been performing on stage,
television, and film. Jay's directorial feature film debut,
"Puddle Cruiser," was the winner of the Hamptons
International Film Festival's Grand Prize for Best Film and
screened at the Sundance, London Int'l, SXSW and Berlin Int'l
film festivals. In addition to his Broken Lizard work, Jay
recently directed five national film spots for the Coca Cola
Company. |
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Jay
is currently editing Broken Lizard's latest feature production,
Super Troopers, which he directed and also stars in. Super
Troopers is executive produced by Danny Devito's Jersey Shore
Films. Jay also recently directed Safety School for NBC
Television and is in development with Broken Lizard for two new
prime-time shows for Fox Television and NBC Studios. |
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Jay
was also assistant to film producer/lawyer John Sloss at the
Sloss Law Office in New York where he has participated in
several independent feature-films including, "American
Buffalo," "Celluloid Closet," "I Shot Andy
Warhol," "Mall Rats," "Suburbia" and
"Lone Star." |
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Jay
is a freelance editor and has worked for Film Video Arts and
Cyclops Pictures and Sound in New York since 1993 where his
experience has included; post-production manager, film editor,
on-line editor and post-production supervisor. He has served as
an editor on several feature films, commercials and short
subject projects. |
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In
addition to a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Colgate
University, Jay completed the New York University - Tisch School
six-week intensive Film Production program and studied with Del
Close, founder of THE SECOND CITY, at the IMPROV OLYMPIC in
Chicago. Jay
is represented by Creative Artists Agency and 3 Arts
Entertainment. |
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RUNNING
TIME: |
1:33:00
[99 minutes]. |
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VHS: |
Available on VHS in the
USA [2004953]
and the UK [22969VHS].
[Check out the "VHS/LD/VCD/DVD" section for further details ]. |
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DVD: |
Available on DVD in
several countries since August 6, 2005. USA [2004954],
UK [22969DVD],
The Netehrlands [F3-9DUR
DZ72969],
France [F3-SFRR
2296941],
Spain [2004953
and F5-SESR 2296910],
Germany [SFRR
2296941],
Asia [Made
in the USA for Asian and Middle East countries, 99-00014A-B],
Belgium [081-77730-001],
also released in Australia, Russia, Poland, Romania, Hungary, Portugal
and Brazil. [Check out the "VHS/LD/VCD/DVD" section for further details
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INFO: |
Lynda Carter has a
brief appearance on this film of only 3 minutes. |
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VIDEO: |
[1]
"WLV-70021.WMV".
Extended and deleted scenes. |
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TRIVIA: |
[•]
While the
movie is set in Vermont, the highway sequences were filmed on Route 117
between Tarrytown and Pleasantville, New York, within only a few hundred
yards of Pace University. |
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[•]
The couple that Farva ('Kevin Heffernan' ) says "chicken fucker" to are
actually Heffernan's parents. They knew he was going to say something
rude, but weren't prepared for the "chicken fucker" line. |
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The film was originally supposed to be set in the 1970s. |
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The "bullet-proof cup" scene was shot just outside an actual prison, and
while Steve Lemme was standing there, wearing just a cup, prisoners were
pressed against the fence yelling at him. |
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