Film Geek

Name: Film Geek
Genre: Comedy
Released: January 13, 2006
Duration: 78 min
Rating: 35

2006

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First Run Features | Release Date: January 13, 2006 | Not Rated

Summary: Film Geek is a hilarious new comedy about Scotty Pelk, a socially inept video store clerk with an encyclopedic knowledge of film. (First Run Features)

Director: James Westby

Genre(s): Comedy

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 78 min

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Marc Mohan

With limited means, Westby makes excellent use of Portland locations and cinematic references to make Film Geek a mostly spot-on, sometimes hilarious character study. His greatest asset is Malkasian, who gives Scotty the prototypical geek attributes. Read full review

Lisa Schwarzbaum

James Westby's loving and self-aware homage to mouth-breathing boys who worship Wong Kar-Wai and can't talk to girls is the opposite of Tarantino-esque: It's Westby-ish, interspersing settings of biting social oafishness with spasms of film knowledge. Read full review

Kyle Smith

The film looks like it cost 10 cents, but a lot of the jokes are gold. Hollywood, take notice of writer-director James Westby. Read full review

Lawrence Van Gelder

Film Geek has a likable premise, an unusual setting in downtown Portland, Ore., and a pleasantly homemade indie feel. Unfortunately, Scotty Pelk, as written by James Westby and played by Mr. Malkasian, is actually so irritating, so genuinely hard to take, that like the rest of the characters in this semiautobiographical movie, we soon find ourselves itching to get away from him. Read full review

Elizabeth Weitzman

You'd be better off spending an evening with the collected works of Rob Schneider. Read full review

Matt Singer

Westby never provides a reason you should pay to spend 70 minutes with Scotty, but he offers at least a dozen compelling ones not to. Read full review

Toddy Burton

Instead of offering any insight or (dare I dream?) entertainment, Film Geek presents a socially retarded main character stumbling through a dimwitted plot with a series of painfully unfunny nonjokes. Read full review

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WilliamB.

Jan 20, 2006

Awesome. Just saw this movie in Portland Oregon. It opens in NYC on February 10th. Telling all my NYC friends to check this out. It's hilarious and painfullly sad all at once. Brilliant.