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Small Apartments
(2012)

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plot summary
 

Inside his rundown, small apartment on the south side of Los Angeles, Franklin Franklin (Matt Lucas) dreams of spooning with his mighty alphorn deep in the tall grass beside a clear, alpine lake in the perfect nation of Switzerland. The only problem is, Franklin has just killed his landlord, Mr. Olivetti (Peter Stormare), and needs to figure out how to get away with it.

Complicating Franklin’s plans are his neighbors: Tommy Balls (Johnny Knoxville), the slacker pothead, Mr. Allspice (James Caan), the old, nosy, know-it-all who monitors everyone’s movements in the building, and Francine (Saffron Burrows) and Simone (Juno Temple), the hard-working MILF and her daughter—who’s nothing but hot, teenage trouble.

Franklin’s plan to dispose of Mr. Olivetti is not without its flaws and soon L.A. County Fire Investigator, Burt Walnut (Billy Crystal), and a pair of bumbling detectives are close on Franklin’s heels. All the while, Franklin receives recorded “life-coaching” advice from his brother, Bernard (James Marsden), a resident of the local insane asylum. Bernard’s audiotapes are stuffed into envelopes with regular shipments of toenails and sound strangely like the teachings of world-renowned TV mental guru, Dr. Sage Mennox (Dolph Lundgren).

Just when things look bleakest for Franklin, when there seems no way for his escape, and just as each of his neighbors close in on their own destiny, Franklin gets a surprise he never saw coming. And suddenly, that advice from his loony-bin brother doesn’t sound so crazy after all.


director/cast
 
Jonas Åkerlund Director
Matt Lucas Franklin Franklin
Johnny Knoxville Tommy Balls
James Caan Mr. Allspice
Dolph Lundgren Dr. Sage Mennox
Billy Crystal Burt Walnut


genre Dark Comedy
rating R for language, some violence, sexual content and drug use
production co(s) Deviant Films / Silver Nitrate / Morroco Junction Pictures / Amuse Entertainment / Sense And Sensibility Ventures
budget $2 million (US)
location(s) Los Angeles, California, USA

interesting facts
 

- Based on a novel by 3-Day-Novel-Writing-Contest winner Chris Millis

- Rob Schneider was previously attached to star and Michael Philip to direct

- Dolph already did the MQ / Red Cross music video "Give A Little Bit" with director Swedish Jonas Akerlund ("Horsemen", "Spun" and a lot of commercials and music videos for Madonna and Lady Gaga)

- Premiered at the South By SouthWest (SXSW) festival

 

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web links
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ChrisMillis.com - writer's blog


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pictures
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MORROCO JUNCTION PICTURES, DEVIANT FILMS and SILVER NITRATE present a JONAS AKERLUND film "SMALL APARTMENTS" MATT LUCAS JOHNNY KNOXVILLE JAMES CAAN DOLPH LUNDGREN PETER STORMARE BILLY CRYSTAL JUNO TEMPLE SAFFRON BURROWS DAVID KEOCHNER DAVID WARCHOFSKY AMADA PLUMMER casting KIM COLEMAN BONNIE TIMMERMANN music PER GESSLE costume designer B. AKERLUND production designer JAKUB DURKOTH editor CHRISTIAN LARSON director of photography PAR M. EKBERG co-producers JIM BUSFIELD PAUL GREER line producer AMY JARVELA exectuvive producers BEN FEINGOLD JOHN GLYNN BRIDGET McMEEL CHRIS MILLIS produced by DAVID HILLARY TIMOTHY WAYNE PETERNEL ASH R. SHAH BONNIE TIMMERMANN written by CHRIS MILLIS based on his novel directed by JONAS AKERLUND

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