Surviving Eden (2004)
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15% of critics liked it
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34% of users liked it
(12,695 ratings)
A reality show contestant who lost 150 pounds and gained a cool one million dollars falls prey to the capitalistic excess of the jet set as Dummy director Greg Pritikin sets his satirical sights on the Hollywood hangers-on who linger for far too long after their 15 minutes are up. Dennis Flotchky… More A reality show contestant who lost 150 pounds and gained a cool one million dollars falls prey to the capitalistic excess of the jet set as Dummy director Greg Pritikin sets his satirical sights on the Hollywood hangers-on who linger for far too long after their 15 minutes are up. Dennis Flotchky (Michael Panes) was an overweight loser with no money and few friends when he first applied for a role on television's top reality game show. All of that quickly changes, however, when Dennis endures to outwit, outlast, and outplay his fellow contestants while simultaneously dropping the majority of his excess weight and becoming a millionaire in the process. Now a celebrity wannabe whose face fills the tabloids and whose fortune is fast being depleted, Dennis must make a quick recovery before the vultures circling overhead swoop down to pick him clean of every last penny and tear away every remaining ounce of his self-respect. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Directed By
- Greg Pritikin
- Genres
- Comedy
PG-13,
- In Theaters
- Aug 25, 2004 Wide
- Studio
- Cineville
Critic Reviews
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Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune
Reality TV, says one character in Greg Pritikin's Surviving Eden, makes you stupid and ill. The movie tries hard to prove it.
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Stephen Holden, New York Times
Although early scenes hold out some promise that this parody of Survivor could amount to something, the movie quickly runs out of ideas.
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Lou Lumenick, New York Post
Surviving Eden is the sort of hapless vanity project where even the outtakes at the end aren't funny.
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Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News
Writer/director Greg Pritikin has created a reality-TV satire as clueless as the self-impressed 'stars' it scorns.
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Gene Seymour, Newsday
The movie insists that we care deeply about its sad sack protagonist as some sort of Chaplin-esque victim of vanity and greed. But neither Pritkin's conception nor Panes' performance warrants such sympathy.
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Cast
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Michael Panes
as Dennis Flotchky
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Cheri Oteri
as Maria Villanova
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Jane Lynch
as Maude Silver
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Peter Dinklage
as Sterno
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Sam Robards
as Gary Gold
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Savannah Haske
as Sister Agnes McNeil
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Conchata Ferrell
as Rosemary Flotchky
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John Landis
as Dr. Levine
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Jackie Katzman
as Devon
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Brian Gattas
as Brisbee
