Little Fish, Strange Pond

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TEN M Little fish.. (aka Frenemy) works really hard to try something new. This movie very much blurs the lines between being an art piece and a bit of a mess. There's a struggle between the structure, tone, and idea. If this was the plan, bravo. I enjoyed the cinematic bravery, but i feel as if the "lynchian perspective" was lost. I had fun with this movie a lot. I feel like a lot of the intended depth never truly paid off. Maybe this was the point i don't know. Half of me thinks this entire movie was one big troll on the viewer. awesome. you won. i watched the movie twice. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 09/26/24 Full Review Audience Member Made as Little Fish, Big Pond, this is the last movie that Gregory Dark has made other than the documentary An Evening with Stephen Lynch. It follows the wanderings of Mr. Jack (Matthew Modine) and Sweet Stephen (Callum Blue) as they make their way through Los Angeles and discuss the nature of life. And if you look at the cover and wonder, is Zach Galifianakis in this any more than five minutes? No. He isn't. But hey, Adam Baldwin is pretty good as Tommy the cop and there's a really strange dialogue on the history of porn, especially when you consider that director Gregory Dark had finally left the world of adult behind, but it doesn't look down on anyone who needs pornography. But the mention of Traci Lords is interesting, seeing as how one of the movies damaged by her underage status was Dark's New Wave Hookers. There's also the mystery of who chopped up a waitress, a Springer talk show with a child murderer, Mattew Modine tripping a child and singing a lot, a strange ending in limbo and a bum fight with a bottle stabbing. Not all of it holds up, but it definitely wasn't the kind of movie I expected and I enjoyed watching it. It's more of several actors all trying out characters, but it never gets too arty and indulgent. Writer Robert Dean Klein has made a bunch of The Wrong… TV movies as well as a film we enjoyed last year, 6:45. Honestly, I'd love to speak to either him or Dark about this film and learn more, because I have so many questions. Maybe you catch watch it and ask some in the comments. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Audience Member Interesting story playing around with deeper concepts of good vs evil. I think Callum Blue and Mathew Modine make an interesting on screen pair. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/30/23 Full Review Audience Member 'Little Fish, Strange Pond' is the same film as 'Frenemy,' the title bestowed on the DVD release, making it misleading as to the nature of the film. The movie is a philosophizing treatise of society's inconsistent morality. Imagine 'My Dinner with Andre' meets 'Natural Born Killers' and you have Frenemy. It seems to be most relevant to the eighties when shock investigative news shows like Geraldo Rivera were popularly full of terrible people being poked and prodded with questions and taunts from the audience and host. Summing up, the film is not good, made numerous scenes in swanky lounges where philosophy is in the air interspersed with long walks outside and finally graphic violence. Zach Galifianakis is in one scene at the beginning which starts off as amusing. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/30/23 Full Review Audience Member Great movie. Wonderful story, very dark comedy. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review Audience Member I don't even know where to start on how to review this movie... It's simply something you must see, so long as you are open to being confused for a majority of the film. Hell, I think I have it all figured out and still am probably confused, but it's a very good confusion to have. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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