Jiminy Glick in Lalawood

Jiminy Glick in Lalawood (2005)

It takes a big man to cover this town.

Hungry for an A-list interview that could launch him into the gossip rag stratosphere, Jiminy Glick, a small-time journalist with big aspirations and an even bigger appetite, drags his wife and kids across the country to the star-studded Toronto Film Festival. But in between the nonstop parties and all-you-can-eat buffets, Glick soon finds himself in the middle of an outrageously scandalous mystery that becomes the celebrity scoop of the decade!

Date of release
2005-05-08
TMDB
4.4 / 10 (42)
Runtime
1h 31m
Genres
Comedy, Mystery
Director
Vadim Jean

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Toronto

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.

Production

In September 2002, it was announced Gold Circle Films had signed a deal with Martin Short to produce a feature film based on his character Jiminy Glick titled Lalawood with Vadim Jean set to direct from a script written by Short, his brother Michael and Paul Flaherty that would feature the character at the Toronto Film Festival.

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