Freddy Got Fingered

2001 Comedy

Television star Tom Green makes his directorial debut with this gross-out comedy. Green stars as Gord Brody, a 28-year-old slacker who aspires to be an animator of Hollywood cartoons. After his dreams of working for studio mogul Dave Davidson (Anthony Michael Hall) temporarily wash out, along with his thankless job at a cheese factory, Gord returns home to live with his parents, Jim (Rip Torn) and Julie (Julie Hagerty). Jim wishes that Gord would simply grow up, move out of the basement, and get a real job like his younger brother Freddy (Eddie Kaye Thomas), who works in a responsible position at a bank. When the battle of wills between Gord and Jim heats up, Gord devises various stunt-like schemes to drive his father bonkers, including the bogus charge that their father molested Freddy as a youngster. Marisa Coughlan co-stars as Gord's wheelchair-bound, nymphomaniac, amateur rocket-scientist girlfriend Betty, while comedian and Green's fellow Canada native Harland Williams plays Gord's oddball neighbor Darren. more..

Director: Tom Green

Starring: Tom Green,Rip Torn, Marisa Coughlan, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Harland Williams

Reviews

  • The movie's comic heart consists of a series of indescribably loopy, elaborately conceived happenings that are at once rigorous and chaotic, idiotic and brilliant.

    Dana Stevens - The New York Times

    19 January 2013

  • His (Green) new gross-out comedy is crude and stupid, but just as often rudely funny. It doesn't so much push the envelope as shred it.

    Jay Carr - The Boston Globe

    19 January 2013

  • The film is like watching Ozzy Osbourne bite the head off a rubber bat -- it's only almost heinous.

    Wesley Morris - The San Francisco Chronicle

    19 January 2013

  • Not since Andy Kaufman's reign of terror has a supposed funnyman been so self-indulgently persistent in testing a fan's patience.

    Susan Wloszczyna - USA Today

    19 January 2013

  • It feels manufactured to be suitable for mass consumption.

    Peter Travers - Rolling Stone

    19 January 2013

Awards

  • Worst Film

    Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards (2002)

  • Worst Picture of the Decade

    Razzie Awards (2010)