Controlled Chaos

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Controlled Chaos

2003

1h 33m

Comedy

Drama

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A tabloid journalist tries to get the scoop on a filmmaker (Don Hughes) and his dedicated assistant (Amy Blomquist).

Kevin Thomas

Los Angeles Times

06/12/2003

2/5

A film that is too often merely tedious.

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Tim Cogshell

Boxoffice Magazine

06/06/2003

1/5

Apparently Zendel was too busy noting Stone's eccentricities to learn anything about directing.

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Luke Sader

The Hollywood Reporter

06/05/2003

It's hard to tell whether film school grad Zendel thought she was crafting a new-millennium Sunset Boulevard, but what results is more like the cultish morass of Showgirls in its camp dramatization of a poisonous entertainment milieu.

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Brent Simon

Entertainment Today

06/16/2003

C-

The story proper is, unfortunately, all over the map, and further hampered by the constraints of its means. But in newcomer Amy Blomquist, director Zendel has plucked a winner.

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David Chute

L.A. Weekly

06/12/2003

The only real-life situations the movie evokes vividly are the circumstances of its own production: underrehearsed actors in hastily staged scenes speaking page after page of awkward expository dialogue.

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Maitland McDonagh

TV Guide

06/05/2003

2/5

Though professionally produced on a micro-budget, Azita Zendel's ambitious writing-directing debut is undermined by an awkward script and some very amateurish acting.

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Synopsis

A tabloid journalist tries to get the scoop on a filmmaker (Don Hughes) and his dedicated assistant (Amy Blomquist).

Director: Azita Zendel
Producer: Azita Zendel
Screenwriter: Azita Zendel
Distributor: Lovestreaks Productions
Production Co: Lovestreaks Productions
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jun 13, 2003, Wide
Box Office (Gross USA): $40.3K
Runtime: 1h 33m