Living the Dream (2006)

User Rating:

4.6/10   

Directors:

Allan Fiterman
Christian Schoyen

Writers:

Christian Schoyen (screenplay) and
Luis Fernandez Reneo (screenplay)

Release Date:

2006 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama

Tagline:

Never let morals stand in the way of your dreams

Plot:

Living the Dream" is a docudrama about two friends who after being bullied as children become corrupt...

Plot Keywords:

Deception | Executive Search | Insurance Fraud | Bully | Internet Dating

Cast

Sean Young	...	Brenda
Christian Schoyen	...	Jonathan
Danny Trejo	...	Chuck
Marília Pêra	...	Vanessa
Matt Dallas	...	Michael
Dan Stulbach	...	Val
Jeff Conaway	...	Dick
Kristian Valen	...	Jeff
Larry Drake	...	Richard
Allen Levin	...	Sid
Matthew Lussier	...	Charles
Christin Tellefsen	...	Turid
Mercy Baron	...	Peggy (as Mercy)
Natalie James	...	Trish
Agnes Olech	...	Channel

Runtime:

92 min | USA:96 min | Sweden:77 min (DVD)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Colour:

Colour

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Rover Films

Trivia:

'Living the Dream' is a docudrama feature film that originated from a human behavior case study.

Soundtrack:

If You Buy The Blue One

LIVING THE DREAM: A "B" Film gone bad....very, very bad....

How LIVING THE DREAM managed to get into the Laemmle 5 in West Hollywood is beyond me, as it is the worst film I have ever seen in my life. I should have known when the first scene opened in-gasp, Eugene, Oregon-,that this dud of a film with characters that you want to like and feel sorry for from their exclusion days from high school,but can't, as they are such losers, is so wooden and atrocious with dialog that is beyond bad.

Then, cliché, the three high school losers end up in LA, and here is where the film could have been realistic if it had shown them trying to find a career in acting. But no, one works as a used car salesman, the other is a true loser in a garage call center selling magazines. Even the bastard that runs the place has more audience appeal than that dreadful actor with the horrible foreign accent. And, they fraudulently get money from an insurance scam to set up an Executive Recruitment firm with no experience, just showing "the supposed good life" in LA night spots with a cast of actors that are so wooden and bad, they better not have SAG cards...

I could go on and on about this bad film, but I ended up walking out of the theater, which had at the start six people, and when I left four men were the only ones in the audience. I wanted to like this film, but I couldn't find one merit in the story, characters, writing, dialog, nor the actors. Whoever cast this film should retire. Amen...enough...