A Film with Me in It

Plot synopsis:
Mark (Doherty) is an actor living in a basement flat below his writer friend Pierce (Moran). Residing with his girlfriend, Sally (Huberman), Mark struggles to find work whilst caring for his paralysed brother, David (O'Doherty). Desperate to avoid paying overdue rent, Mark continually eludes landlord Jack (Allen), meaning he is also unable to inform Jack of the flat's dilapidated state.
Discovering that Mark wasted money meant for the overdue rent, Sally finally decides to end her strained relationship with Mark, informs Jack of the repairs needed, and arranges to move out. The damaged state of the flat reaching its peak, Mark witnesses two consecutive freak accidents; a bookshelf falls and kills his dog, and the living room chandelier collapses and crushes David. Reeling in horror from the events, Mark looks on as Jack appears to repair a high lightbulb atop a wobbly stool, only to fall and pierce his throat with his screwdriver. Pierce then arrives and discovers the corpses, causing him to panic.
Hiding in the bathroom, Mark and Pierce plot to control the situation, only for Sally to return. Discovering David's body, Sally faints and impales herself on Mark's clarinet stand, killing her too. Realizing the absurdity of four consecutive, fatal accidents occurring in one place, Pierce concocts a plan to move Jack's body to an alternative location, as they both had a strong motive to murder him. Shooing Sally's father when he arrives, a police officer (O'Sullivan) then arrives due to an unrelated noise complaint, causing Pierce to panic and take her hostage.
Unable to kill the officer, the duo ties her up and attempts to reason with her. Left unattended, she attempts to escape through a faulty window, only for it to close and crush her head. Now surrounded by several corpses, Pierce finally formulates a plan; placing David, Sally, Jack, and the dog in his car, they drive it to a secluded area and cause it to explode, leaving minimal forensic evidence. Additionally, since three immediate deaths of Mark's acquaintances can place suspicion on him, Mark places his jewellery and clarinet on David's corpse, faking his own death.
Finally moving the officer to the neighbour's garden, Pierce fakes her death as caused by a falling plant pot. Cutting Mark's hair and dressing him as David, the two attempt to pass Mark as his disabled brother, and give Pierce an alibi as his carer in Mark's absence. A closing epilogue then shows Pierce has written a script based on the film's events, and is currently directing it whilst Mark continues to pass as David.

Tags: dark

Review:
This black comedy is a story of Pierce (Dylan Moran) and Mark (Mark Doherty), two jobless Irish friends sharing a run down apartment with Mark's girlfriend Sally (Amy Huberman), and Mark's disabled brother David (David O'Doherty).
The movie suddenly takes a turn for the worse one day in their uneventful and eroding lives.The movie really takes the very definitive yet subtle elements of black comedy and ties it together with very interesting plot twists.
Although no comparison can be made, for the sake of a relative scale- A Film with Me in It is abreast with some of the blackest comedy works of the Coen Brothers (such as Burn After Reading, Barton Fink and The Man Who Wasn't There).The movie tends to drag a little here and there, but makes up for it in the fine character development and cinematography.
As the plot progresses, the viewer is often subtly taunted to question their understanding of the story so far.I'm a fan of Dylan Moran's stand-up work, and he has lived up to my expectations of him on the screen as well.
All in all, it's definitely a good watch..
This film is very funny, the cast are all excellent.
I would single out Amy Huberman as being excellent in this, I also saw  her in another Irish film that played in Montreal in August, Satellites  and Meteorites, where she was flawless.
Dylan Moran, while perhaps  reprising many of the other characters he has played previously, was  very enjoyable to watch, as was Keith Allen though his part was  predictably small.
A few cameos at the end really were well placed, especially Johnny  Rhys, though the context of his cameo was a little close to reality so  I'm not sure what way he will come across to auds in Ireland.
Throughly enjoyable film, the industry in Toronto reacted extremely  positively to it and it along with Kisses really showed us all that  Ireland can, when it wants, produce good product.
The question if you will like were this is going or not, will depend on how much you like "dark humor".
If you have seen quite a few of those movies, than you might anticipate quite a few things that will happen.Still it is done very good, many jokes are really exciting and the movie ends very well.
One of the things that stuck out though, was the fact that this movie is Irish.
Which means the guys playing this have a very unusual accent (for me and I'm sure for quite a few other guys), which also means, that I had some trouble getting every little thing that was said.The (inevitable) American Remake will come surely, but before that, make sure to watch this original!.
Both Moran and Doherty know how to spin the story, lend credibility to the scenario.
Watching them is a delight as they portray their downbeat characters with warmth and affection.
Otherwise, enjoy the wittiness of this small scale gem and celebrate the fact that such pictures get into circulation at all in such cash-straightened times..
Mark Doherty not only stars in this film, he wrote it.
It is so bizarre that it is hilarious.We are talking two losers, Mark (Doherty) and his friend Pierce (Dylan Moran).
Mark is faced with a series of accidents that leave him utterly incapable of action.
He turns to Pierce, who just makes things worse.This film is not laugh-out-loud funny, but it is hilarious.
Of course, you have to see the humor , not in the tragedies that occur, but in the response to it by Mark and Pierce.Amy Huberman was excellent in her role as Mark's girlfriend, leaving us wanting more in her short role..
Dark and damp like Ireland.
The point is though when it comes to casting he's limited to the roles he can play but for this one he's ideally suited.This film is very dark and slightly funny film.
Two down and out wannabe script writer/film makers bundle their way through a series of explainable but hard to believe accidents which are made all the more worse by their bungled attempts to cover them up.
No where does the film make sense but it's not supposed to, if you approach this film with logic you're wasting your time.
This film is in fact Murphy's Law.There are no perfect teeth American heroes to save the day, no beautiful people to carry the film on their looks, no slush no montage scenes of pretty woman hat changes, this film is as dark, damp, dreary and miserable as the dank basement flat it's set in and that's how it's supposed to be, a good British film.Is it hilarious?
Movie with them in it or day with them in it is filmed?.
Mark is rejected by one more movie project.
Permanent looser Mark is living in a wrecked house which he can't pay for the rent for three months together with his brother in wheel chair.
Leading role in his friend's movie sounds for him like the solution to everything.
The script of Pierce who is an impenitent alcoholic coincides whit what we are watching.
We can't be sure if the movie they want to make at this specific day is what we are watching or they are inspired by this day for their movie.
After such shrewd start, movie presents 90 minutes laughters to us.Tragedies one after another don't change Mark's indifferent attitude to life even when he has lost almost everything.
Mark's astonishment and Pierce's reactions are main objects of the movie represents British comedy manner.
What is happening to them is too much absurd even for a movie according to a movie writer Pierce he says but they again find the solution in a scenario idea.Everything is fabulously funny in this good sample of British comedy which resembles "Shaun of Dead" and "Hot Fuzz".
A Film With Me In It, second movie of Ian Fitzgibbon has various critics like his first job but still it attracts attention in some Festivals include Irish Film and Television Academy (IFTA)..
Ratings: 5 - Amazing 4 - Great 3 - Very good 2 - Good 1 - Fair 0 - Poor For more information about the ratings, please visit: http://critical-eruditass.blogspot.com/p/about-blog.htmlCharacters: 2 Screenplay: 2 Cinematography: 2 Emotional: 1Overall: 2.0The film does a good job of walking the line between tasteful and tasteless of dark comedy.
Nothing in this film makes sense or is logical, but it isn't supposed to; each ridiculous twist and turn can be amusing.
To me, it was amusing and I had a few laughs, but they can be a little sparse.
And in the end, it leaves you feeling a bit empty.
While that may be the point of the film, it also feels a bit like a television episode that was dragged on.
Overall, I found it a good experience.The characters are stupid and illogical.
The actors also did a pretty good job of appearing similarly dumbstruck.
Moran is his usual self.Not only is it hard to develop any kind of connection with the characters, but they can induce hate.
Sometimes inducing this kind of emotion is good, but they overdid it and it can definitely begin to shift to annoyance, ruining the suspension of disbelief.
The screenplay was absurd, in a good way, but could have flown better.
The clear foreshadowing does create an interesting little "whose gonna get it" atmosphere, but they needed to anchor more of the script around it.
If it was worked and teased a bit more, it would've been great.
It got better as the bodies began piling up and the absurdities amounted.The tone of the film started off teetering between funny and serious, so some parts left the viewer uncertain as to how to feel.
The ending expunged on the humor created and is a hate it or love it thing.The cinematography, on the other hand, was surprisingly aesthetic.
With no flair, the angles and composition is well done for a low budget film.
While I was never really drawn into the film, I enjoyed the brief nonsensical departure from sane people..
While I was never really drawn into the film, I enjoyed the brief nonsensical departure from sane people..
Sometimes dark comedies just don't work.
"A Film with Me in It" is dark, it's Irish, it's indie.
Mark (Mark Doherty) and Pierce (Dylan Moran) are broke and jobless, and they're too incompetent to even know that they're broke and jobless, let alone how to not be.One is a screenwriter and the other's an actor, and they've decided to make a movie.
When Mark's girlfriend Sally asks, "with what money?" Mark does not understand what she means.
Like, real money, what is required to live in the real world!" Mark still has no clue what she's talking about.
Yes, that joke is funny, but it also begs the question how did Mark even get a girlfriend in the first place?
Questions like that are never answered.
We're just supposed to laugh at these imbeciles rather than get to know them or understand them.Their movie is going to be like an Irish "Fargo" and they kidnap somebody with money.
As you can guess with most dark comedies, life starts imitating art.
But when most-likely-innocent, under-developed characters and animals are killed (not murdered just killed accidentally), I couldn't follow their humourless foibles.If they gave me actual characters, like real people whom I could connect to, "A Film With Me in It" could probably at least be watchable.
But as is, every plot twist is meaningless because there is no development or understanding to anything anybody says or does..
If you take a cast of good comedians you might hope for some good jokes but there aren't many here.Moran is funny is his normal crazed way but the rest of the cast aren't.
The script is poor with the dialogue being stilted and, more importantly, just dull.The acting is OK, it just isn't funny.The plot seems quite good if not especially original but the slapstick falls flat and there is nothing else to keep you interested.This was quite hard to watch to the end and the ending isn't really interesting enough to have bothered..
A Film with Nothing in It. The idea is fantastic.
A bunch of people keep having deadly accidents in the apartment of a broke wannabe-actor.
Now he has to avoid looking like a deranged serial killer while the bodies start piling up and his best friend tries to write a movie around the whole thing.
One would think that a black-humoured British amalgam of both ideas, starring Dylan Moran of Black Books and Shaun of the Dead would be even better.
The first wasted opportunity is casting Dylan Moran not as the lead, but as the grumpy alcoholic screenwriter friend who plays second fiddle to Mark Doherty.
Doherty is unable to make his character likable, or what happens to him intriguing.
Instead, he sleepwalks through the movie like a robot telling a joke.
Instead, it's a string of the same thing happening over and over again until the film ends with an unlikely and unsatisfying denouement, while the subplots go nowhere.
an unexpected delight and a film not to be missed.
Black comedies don't come much darker than this little gem from Ireland.
Audiences who loved last year's Death At A Funeral will get lots of laughs from this very funny comedy about a couple of hapless wannabe film makers and their attempts to cope with a couple of accidental deaths in a small flat.
Mark (Mark Doherty) is a struggling out of work actor desperately looking for a decent role in a film.
He shares a poky basement flat with his girlfriend Sally (Amy Huberman), and his paralysed wheelchair bound brother David (David O'Doherty).
And Mark's slacker best friend Pierce (Irish comic Dylan Moran, from the TV series Black Books, etc) is trying to write a film script drawing upon their experiences.
As the unusual situation begins to get out of control, Pierce's helpful suggestions actually exacerbate things.
There is a fine art to black comedy, as filmmakers have to walk a fine line between tasteful and tasteless, but this is the type of comedy where the British excel.
Director Ian FitzGibbon and writer Mark Doherty get the delicate balance right here, and they push the material about as far as it can go without overstepping the boundaries of good taste.
There are plenty of laugh-out loud moments throughout, some nice sight gags, and a running joke that eventually pays off.
The film is a little slow to get going as it spends a lot of time in the early scenes establishing the characters and setting the scene.
The film combines elements of top British films like the wonderful Withnail And I, and Shallow Grave.
FitzGibbon and Doherty follow one outrageous implausibility with another, but the whole thing ultimately works.
To reveal too much about the film's plot would spoil its surprises.
The small but effective cast are attuned to the tone of the film, and their performances match the material.
Moran brings charisma and charm to his unsympathetic and self-centred character.
A Film With Me In It is an unexpected delight and a film not to be missed!.
Well if a good romp in some dark territory sounds like fun then this is your movie, def low budget, but the cast more than makes up for it as any good dark comedy classics will prove.After a series of set-up albeit, believable accidents happen.
Together they must use their skills to avoid the jail time that will surely ensue, after they make the situation progressively worse.I'll give it doesn't take too much to figure out most of it but the trip was worth the ticket cost and seeing some of the cast from Shaun of the Dead working was a great surprise and a joy.If you enjoy dark humor and the witty humor of the the Irish/English then you'll enjoy this one no matter the side of the world you hail from..
Good, but not great.
I'm personally a big fan of Dylan Moran.
His stand-up makes me laugh, I enjoy the movies he's been in, and I like his couldn't-be-arsed exterior.
Overall, I think he's a pretty cool guy.But, for me, this movie was a bit of a disappointment.
It was fairly good, but it could have been excellent if it had been worked on a bit more, teased out a little.The opening and the introduction to the characters was sloppy, which took the edge off for me (call me old-fashioned, but I like to know who everyone is before launching into all the plot twists and whodunits).
Also, the tone at the beginning is constantly changing from funny to serious, which leaves the audience unsure of how to react when the various characters start getting offed.
So, I thought A Film With Me In It was a good film.
Dark Comedy at It's finest..
I found myself watching this movie, alone in bed, eating popcorn, hungover like a beach towel on a Tuesday night.Incredible..
all in a matter of minuets, it's not funny but why am I laughing?
Lots of twists, great film, well good enough.
Love Dylan Moran, I hope to one day marry a man just like himself.
Eight out of Ten stars for 'a film with me in it' please enjoy as much as I indeed did.Make sure to check out my list of movies to watch - recommended by myself.
if you like this you are bound to enjoy the other titles in the list on my profile..
Once again, we have an inept film built on that idea, inept because the writer wanted to be in it.The overall shape is an ordinary, explicit fold: one buddy is a blocked film writer, the other and unemployed actor.
Noir-inspired events transpire, messing with them while "giving them material" for a film we discover at the end is the film we are seeing.
What is clever is the dialog that jumps from one side of the line to another, in and out of the movie, realizing that "out" is really "in." There are roles that are designated viewers: loyal dog, crippled brother, lecherous landlord, allsuffering girlfriend, kind policewoman.
Each is developed as noir center then dispatched in the same tone that the dialog uses in dismissing genre ideas.
It is really quite a brilliant script idea.
But alas, the film does not have enough energy to let us know when it is changing direction.
So bad and unfunny I stopped caring even though Dylan Moran fights valiantly to save it.
This film stars Dylan Moran and someone who's name and face I will try to block from memory (this non person also wrote the screenplay).
It has something to do with an actor who has to deal with dead bodies and attempts to get work.
Or something.I saw this as part of the IFC in Theaters cable service and all I can say is I'm so glad this was essentially a freebie since the movie was part of the service I already pay for.
Actually the other thing I can say is this is only the second film I've seen from IFC Films that I can't understand how it got picked up for release.This is an unfunny film that made me stare at the screen wondering what I was supposed to be laughing at.
Moran is a funny comedian, I'm a huge fan of his, but he's not the star some other guy is so I had to really suffer.
The best way to describe this is as the sort of odd ultra dry humor that is so dry as to not be funny.
Who did Neil Jordan owe that he got hooked up with the writer and star?(Jordan's attitude at the beginning is how I felt about the film) A waste of time