This time you can't change the channel.
Gord Brody (Tom Green), a young man in his late twenties, infuriates his father, Jim (Rip Torn), by refusing to move out of the house and get a job, provoking an all-out war between father and son.
Also starring Eddie Kaye Thomas as Freddy Brody, Marisa Coughlan as Betty, Julie Hagerty as Julie Brody, Stephen Tobolowsky as Uncle Neil, Laurie Murdoch as the bank manager, Harland Williams as Darren, Anthony Michael Hall and Connor Widdows as Andy Malloy, Jackson Davies, Scott Heindl as Peter and Ron Selmour. Written and directed by Tom Green.
Special Agent Matti
Gross out.
Tom Green is a bit of a wacky guy. He'd almost be zany if he wasn't so off the wall. His sense of humour takes you places that you only imagined when you saw Jim Carrey assaulting a cow in the Farrelly brothers' Me, myself and Irene or Chris Klein assaulting a cow in Say it isn't so. Tom doesn't assault a cow but he does take on some road kill (a deer), which does just as good.
The story of Freddy got fingered is, as you already suspect, an excuse to get some gags on screen; it follows the traditional Hollywood plot of loser seeking his way in the big wide world, failing to fit in, then finding his niche and making good. Mind you, every part of that plot is twisted by Tom's fertile imagination. Kinky wheelchair sex, anyone? There is even some social satire on taboo subjects like pædophilia, media creation of heroes and the American infatuation with psycho-therapy.
If you want a good, in your face, up your bum, smack around the ears kind of film that's so gross that you have to laugh then Freddy got fingered is just what the doctor ordered.
R 18+ (Adult themes)
85 minutes (1:25 hours)
Film: 4 January 2002
DVD retail: 8 January 2002
VHS retail: 8 January 2002









