Chuck & Buck (2000)

Recommended

USA

Feature Film

Director: Miguel Arteta

Writer: Mike White

Cinematographer: Chuy Chávez

Composers: Smokey Hormel, Tony Maxwell, Joey Waronker

Cast: Mike White, Chris Weitz, Lupe Ontiveros, Beth Colt, Paul Weitz, Maya Rudolph

After his mother dies, leaving him all alone, Buck, a child-like twenty-something from the sticks, moves to Los Angeles and begins to stalk his childhood best friend – now a successful music executive – and, when his advances are rebuffed, he puts on a play to prove his love, in Arteta’s awkwardly funny and vaguely unpleasant yet painfully compelling oddity. Iain.Stott