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With five nominations, it looks like
Superbad will be the star of
the 2008 MTV Movie Awards, and its three jubilant male leads --
Michael Cera,
Jonah Hill, and
Christopher Mintz-Plasse -- deserve the kudos. But one major talent behind the whole affair has stayed relatively anonymous while these young up-and-comers bathe in the spotlight: Director
Greg Mottola. The erstwhile independent filmmaker, responsible for some of the best installments of
Arrested Developed and
Undeclared, launched his career a solid decade before the rise of
Judd Apatow with a charming little low budget comedy called
The Daytrippers. Starring
Stanley Tucci,
Hope Davis,
Liev Schreiber, Parker Posey and a host of other fantastic character actors, the film follows a wildly dysfunctional family over the course of a single day, as Davis, playing a worrisome housewife, tries to track down her unfaithful husband (Tucci).
Mixing warm humanity with pitch-perfect screwball timing,
Daytrippers marked the sort of debut that told you a filmmaker had a big career ahead of him. After a modest premiere at the Slamdance Film Festival, it landed at Cannes, barely got a theatrical release and promptly vanished thereafter. Mottola turned to TV work, and slipped out of the film scene for a good ten years. These days, it's no easy task to track down
Daytrippers on DVD --
you can nab second-hand copies on Amazon for decent rates, but not a single retail outlet carries it. Aside from the occasionally airings on cable, the movie has vanished.
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