Living in Oblivion (1995)
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87% of critics liked it
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84% of users liked it
(7,342 ratings)
Following up his debut, Johnny Suede, director Tom DiCillo presented this filmmaking comedy that allegedly draws much from DiCillo's experiences on the set of the 1991 Brad Pitt vehicle. Steve Buscemi stars as Nick Reve, the long-suffering director of a no-budget independent film. If he's… More Following up his debut, Johnny Suede, director Tom DiCillo presented this filmmaking comedy that allegedly draws much from DiCillo's experiences on the set of the 1991 Brad Pitt vehicle. Steve Buscemi stars as Nick Reve, the long-suffering director of a no-budget independent film. If he's not dealing with his heartbroken director of photography Wolf (Dermot Mulroney), Reve is trying to keep his leading lady Nicole (DiCillo mainstay Catherine Keener) happy or ignore the pseudo-auteur suggestions of Pitt-inspired name-actor Chad Palomino (James LeGros). All the while, the audience can't ever be sure if the scene they're watching is a dream or reality. ~ Matthew Tobey, Rovi
- Directed By
- Tom DiCillo
- Written By
- Tom DiCillo
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy
- In Theaters
- Jul 14, 1995 Wide
- Studio
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Critic Reviews
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Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
A hip indie version of Truffaut's Day for Night, Living in Oblivion celebrates the very act of filmmaking as grand folly, a triumph of absurdist heroism.
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Geoff Andrew, Time Out
A treat.
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Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
A very funny picture that presents the world of independent film making as a nightmare of conflicting egos, budgetary squalor and incompetence.
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Desson Thomson, Washington Post
"Oblivion" has a surrealistic, guilty-fun quality. It feels almost too good to be true.
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Hal Hinson, Washington Post
So you wanna make a movie? Well, first, you should see "Living in Oblivion," Tom DiCillo's savagely funny satire of the world of independent filmmaking.
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Cast
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Steve Buscemi
as Nick Reve
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Catherine Keener
as Nicole Springer
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Dermot Mulroney
as Wolf
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Danielle von Zerneck
as Wanda
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James LeGros
as Chad Palomino
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Rica Martens
as Cora
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Peter Dinklage
as Tito
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Robert Wightman
as Gaffer
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Hilary Gilford
as Script
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Kevin Corrigan
as Assistant Camera
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Matthew Grace
as Boom
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Michael Griffiths
as Sound Mixer
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Tom Jarmusch
as Driver/Intern
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Ryan Bowker
as Food Service/Clapper
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Francesca DiMauro
as Production assistant
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Lori Tan Chinn
as Costume Designer
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Norman Field
as Hair/Make-up Artist
