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Release Date: 2000   Duration: 88 min

Cast: Jack Noseworthy, Ricki Lake, Alicia Witt, Eric Roberts, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Mink Stole, Lawrence Gilliard Jr., Michael Shannon, Ray Felton, Harriet Dodge, Stephen Dorff, Melanie Griffith ...MORE

Cast: Jack Noseworthy, Ricki Lake, Alicia Witt, Eric Roberts, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Mink Stole, Lawrence Gilliard Jr., Michael Shannon, Ray Felton, Harriet Dodge, Stephen Dorff, Melanie Griffith, Eric Barry, Kevin Nealon, Erika Lynn Rupli, John Michaelson, Adrian Grenier, Patty Hearst ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Crime Fiction, Thriller, Indie film, Media Satire, Comedy film, Cult film, Satire, Black comedy, Action film

Cecil B. Demented is a 2000 black comedy film written and directed by John Waters. The film stars Melanie Griffith as a snobby A-list Hollywood actress who is kidnapped by a band of terrorist filmmakers who force her to star in their underground film. Stephen Dorff stars as the eponymous character and leader of the group, with Alicia Witt, Adrian Grenier, Mike Shannon, and Maggie Gyllenhaal...  MORE

Cecil B. Demented is a 2000 black comedy film written and directed by John Waters. The film stars Melanie Griffith as a snobby A-list Hollywood actress who is kidnapped by a band of terrorist filmmakers who force her to star in their underground film. Stephen Dorff stars as the eponymous character and leader of the group, with Alicia Witt, Adrian Grenier, Mike Shannon, and Maggie Gyllenhaal co-starring as the rest of his gang of filmmakers. Each of the filmmakers in the film bears tattoos of various underground directors' names, including Kenneth Anger, Sam Peckinpah, David Lynch, Otto Preminger, Herschell Gordon Lewis, Spike Lee, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Pedro Almodóvar, and Andy Warhol. The title of the film alludes to legendary director Cecil B. DeMille. The film is loosely based on the 1974 kidnapping of Patricia Hearst and like all of Waters' films, was shot in Baltimore, Maryland; Hearst has a cameo role. The film was given a limited release in North American cinemas on August 11, 2000. It was released to home media through Artisan, and later, Lionsgate Home Entertainment in the United States. For her role as Honey Whitlock, Griffith was nominated for Worst Actress at the 2000 Golden Raspberry Awards. Despite the lukewarm response from critics, the film has attained something of a cult status in later years. LESS