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The Marc Pease Experience

PG-13

Released Aug 21, 2009

1 hr. 20 min.

Comedy

Drama

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18%

11 Reviews

Tomatometer

14%

1,000+ Ratings

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A limousine driver (Jason Schwartzman) who once starred in high-school musicals hopes to cut an album, despite constant reminders of a humiliating incident from the past.

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It's actually a good movie. It has a suitable length (about 80 minutes), which I like. The storyline is nice and simple.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/23/23

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don s

This is really lame. A former high school acapella singer bombs in the school play. He spends his early adulthood dating a high school girl, trying to gain the attention of his former music teacher (who is cozying up to the girlfriend), and losing members of his acapella band, Meridian 8, which is now down to 4 members. There is little story, there is little comedy (okay, none if you ask me), and there is no point to the whole thing. Stiller is terrible. Anna Kendrick, however, still qualifies as cute as a button.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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camille l

Un film qui parle de groupe a capella et de The Wiz avec Anna Kendrick et Ben Stiller? J'en suis. Malheureusement, The Marc Pease Experience est une comédie douce-amère plus fade qu'autre chose avec un abominablement geignard Jason Schwartzmann en tête d'affiche et un scénario aux abonnés absents tant le manque d'enjeux dramatiques se fait sentir au bout de quelques minutes. Le supporting cast est aussi exécrable que les protagonistes principaux et le film manque cruellement de rythme et de punch, ce qui est malheureux vu qu'il ne dure que 85 minutes. Rien ne vaut le coup dans cet océan de médiocrité qui ne fait rien de mal, mais rien de bien. The Marc Pease Experience est passé inaperçu à sa sortie aux US et ne mérite que cela.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Audience Member

It starts off on a slow note and though a few moments seem to pick up, the film just isn't enjoyable. The jokes are humorless and it was overall pointless. Had the actors been given proper insight into the characters and then been allowed to continue development from how they see the character, as successful films accomplish, it would have turned out better. However, the directing was still bad and the concept even worse. I had high hopes for the movie, and it completely failed.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

02/25/23

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Audience Member

An odd unfunny comedy that isn't unentertaining while at the same time not really entertaining either. The Marc Pease Experience is just one of those films that will be watched and than quickly forgotten and in a way being so plain isn't necessarily a good thing while not really being a bad thing. Stiller is not anywhere near his comical best which is a shame considering this film could have used a Stiller over the top performance if for nothing else than to make it stand apart.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

01/27/23

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Audience Member

The writers and directors should be fired for making such a convoluted film - the ending was terrible!

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/10/23

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Todd Louiso

Director

Jason Schwartzman

Marc Pease

Ben Stiller

Jon Gribble

Anna Kendrick

Meg Brickman

Ebon Moss-Bachrach

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Gabrielle Dennis

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Nathan Rabin

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Louiso's misfiring comedy feels less like a comic feast than a thrown-together assemblage of haphazardly nuked leftovers.

Rated: D+

Aug 27, 2009

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Rob Nelson

Variety

Like Schwartzman, Stiller devotes aptly excessive attention to the portrayal of a character too invested in trivial pursuits himself. It's the movie's one decent joke, but, in the absence of laughs, the most the actors can draw from it is a mere grin.

Aug 24, 2009

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Rene Rodriguez

Miami Herald

This is a slight and unessential picture, but its quirky, compassionate tone seems destined to attract a cult following, and members of high-school drama clubs everywhere will be riveted.

Rated: 2.5/4

Aug 21, 2009

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William Goss

Cinematical

No character is worth caring about, worth pitying, worth paying attention to; no dilemma they face is too petty.

Dec 17, 2009

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Austin Kennedy

Sin Magazine

No wonder Paramount Vantage decided to bury this.

Rated: 1/4

Aug 29, 2009

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Chris Hewitt

St. Paul Pioneer Press

If anyone were going to like The Marc Pease Experience, it would be me, and I didn't.

Rated: 1/4

Aug 21, 2009

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Synopsis

A limousine driver (Jason Schwartzman) who once starred in high-school musicals hopes to cut an album, despite constant reminders of a humiliating incident from the past.

Director: Todd Louiso
Executive Producer: Nan Morales
Screenwriter: Jacob Koskoff, Todd Louiso
Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Production Co: Paramount Vantage, Paramount Pictures International, Groundswell Productions
Rating: PG-13 (Brief Sexual Material)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 21, 2009, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jul 1, 2013
Box Office (Gross USA): $2.6K

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