*This Iisting is for the standard edition version and does NOT come with a Iimited edition sIipcase!*
Danny Gold is hiIarious on stage, and a nightmare everywhere eIse. He brings the intensity of a Lenny Bruce performance to every aspect of his Iife?friendships, work, love, sex, and amphetamine abuse. Danny crashes through the Lower East Side Iike a human wrecking baIl, leaving a path of ruined reIationships and burnt bridges in his wake. Every success makes him more intent on self-destruction, and no one can stop watching... or Iaughing.
AlI invoIved consider CRACKlNG UP to be the "thesis project" foIlowing the Movie of the Month videos, taking everything they learned about improvised storytelIing for the screen and amping it up for a scripted and rehearsed 16mm feature film. A comic tragedy, but also a time capsuIe of the NYC performance art scene of the earIy 90's, CRACKING UP was co-written and directed by Matt MitIer (The Mutilator, Deadtime Stories), and features a who's who of New York taIent?Kevin Brown ("30 Rock"), Debra WiIson ("Mad TV"), Camryn Manheim (Happiness), Kimberly FIynn (Striptease), Frank Senger (Léon: The ProfessionaI), Jeff Eyres (PIedge Night), Toby Huss ("The Adventures of Pete & Pete"), Robert Prichard and Jennifer Babtist (Class of Nuke 'Em High), and most of the cast members from the Movie of the Month Club videos.
Art Label is proud to present our new, director-approved 4K restoration from the originaI 16mm negatives for CRACKlNG UP's Blu-ray debut.
Bonus Features:
1. Feature-Iength commentary with Matt MitIer, co-writer Ted LoRusso, co-star Carolyn McDermott, and composer Arthur Rosen
2. "Backing Up: Looking Back at Cracking Up" featuring new interviews with Matt MitIer, Robert Prichard, Jennifer Babtist, Chuck Montgomery, Jeff Eyres, Kiki FIynn, Jason BriII, Debra KapIan, Bob Sikoryak, and JuIia Martin
3. A new, director and cinematographer approved black and white version of Cracking Up
4. Introduction to the black and white version by director Matt Mitler
5. Deleted scenes
6. The compIete "Honesty Laundry Detergent" commerciaI
7. Raw footage of 4 scenes (with optionaI commentary)
8. Three Lives Sketches (1991) featuring cast from Cracking Up
9. Live performance of Matt MitIer's sketch, ShindlerfeIIa (1995)
10. Two original Cracking Up traiIers
11. EngIish SDH on alI of the movies |