Envy (2004)
Information
Released Year: 2004
Runtime: 99 minutes
Genre: Comedy
Directors: Barry Levinson
Casts: Ben Stiller, Jack Black, E.J. Callahan, Christopher Walken, Tom McCleister, Tracy Dixon, Rachel Weisz, Amy Poehler, Kent Shocknek, Connor Matheus, Ted Rooney, Brian Reddy, Cayden Boyd, Ariel Gade, Frank Roman, Edith Jefferson, Tara Karsian, Blue Deckert, Terry Bozeman, Curtis Andersen, Angee Hughes, Douglas Roberts, Amy Higgins, Gustavo Hernandez, Sam Lerner, Lily Jackson, Hector Elias, Manny Kleinmuntz, John Gavigan, Tumbleweed, John Marrott, Ofer Samra, Daniel Lugo, Randall Bosley, Maricela Ochoa, Melissa Pouk, Ashlynn Rose, Hannah Rosenberg, Atiana Coons-Parker, Jacob Greenblatt, Nicholas Sugimoto, Jaye K. Danford
IMDB: Envy (2004)
Storyline
A man becomes increasingly jealous of his friend's newfound success.
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Reviews
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Christian Science Monitor -
The movie works fairly well as a pitch-dark comedy, and very well as a dead-on satire of upward mobility and its discontents.
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The Hollywood Reporter -
The laughs tend to come in fits and starts, built around individual set pieces rather than being generated organically out of the storytelling.
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L.A. Weekly -
Even the relatively successful pairing of neckless maestro of anxiety Stiller with the indomitably effervescent Black gets bogged down by Steve Adams' aimless screenplay. Would the Barry Levinson who once made "Diner" please wake up and pull himself together?
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TV Guide Magazine -
Levinson, who has directed enough films to know better, should recognize a stinker of a script when he smells one: Instead clever laughs he serves up sloppy schtick, dead spots filled with lame ad-libbing and Walken crooning "The Happy Wanderer."
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Chicago Tribune -
Envy is a shaggy dog-poop story that'll make you wish you could spray something at the screen to make it disappear.
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A man becomes increasingly jealous of his friend's newfound success.
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