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James Van Der Beek (Actor), Selma Blair (Actor), Todd Solondz (Director, Writer) Rated: Suitable for 18 years and over Format: DVD
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  • Actors: James Van Der Beek, Selma Blair, Leo Fitzpatrick, Robert Wisdom, Maria Thayer
  • Directors: Todd Solondz
  • Writers: Todd Solondz
  • Producers: Amy Henkels, Christine Vachon, David Linde, Declan Baldwin, Michael De Luca
  • Format: PAL
  • Language: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.85:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: Eiv
  • DVD Release Date: 24 Jun. 2002
  • Run Time: 83 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0000667L2
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 40,272 in DVD & Blu-ray (See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray)

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Writer-director Todd Solondz presents two tales about cruelty, deception, storytelling, and other people's suffering. In the first, entitled 'Fiction', a student on a creative writing course enters an abusive affair with her professor. The second, 'Nonfiction', concerns a filmmaker working on a documentary about a high school student and his family.

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4.0 out of 5 starsEveryone always has a story to tell
By Jenny on 8 Feb. 2008
Format: DVD
Todd Solondz's `Welcome to the Dollhouse' showed comic/absurd promise; his masturbation scene in `Happiness' overstepped the boundary of film taste but got everyone's attention. While I didn't enjoy "Storytelling" as much as I did the Director's two previous films, "Happiness" and "Welcome to The Dollhouse," Solondz continues to amaze with his depictions of just how awkward true life really is. As always, he masterfully shows the oft times tactless, cynical, transparent motivations of everyday suburban life and combines them with outrageous situations, giving a humorous view into the myriad of interesting quirky characters he creates. As with Happiness, Storytelling has no background characters. Each character gets fully explored in a way that no matter how familiar or foreign a specific character's behavior might be to you, you can't help but understand their motivations. Solondz can develop over 10 characters in 88 minutes while most conventional Hollywood films fail to portray just one in any given 3 hour "epic".

Selma Blair and Leo Fitzpatrick give incredible performances in the first segment of this film titled "Fiction". John Goodman is at his best here in the film's second segment "Non-fiction", not to mention it was a good to see Julie Haggerty in it.

One of the film's most honest moments (and there are MANY) comes in the beginning of the Non-Fiction segment, during a phone call Paul Giamatti gives to a female classmate he hadn't spoken to since high school. While hilarious, I couldn't help but feel bad for his character, which gets fleshed out in the almost confessional tone of the conversation (which of course, he blunders).

I don't want to dig far into the plot because the elements of shock and surprise that are Solondz bread and butter should only be revealed by others, suffice it to say I recommend this movie very highly. I look forward to anything this director does.
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4.0 out of 5 stars"Mandingo" and "Reality TV"
By Marty From SF HALL OF FAMETOP 500 REVIEWER on 27 Feb. 2003
Format: DVD
Although this third film by Todd Solondz is not as good as "Welcome To The Dollhouse" or "Happiness", it still smacks of satirical cynicism. Inexplicably split into two films ('Fiction', 'Non-fiction'), we are first presented with a twenty minute film about community college level 'writing', in which, a young woman has a confrontational and sexual sparring with the black, 'mandingo' teacher. It's all meant to be a comment on hypocritical racists in education. It culminates in an outrageous sex encounter that is literally 'blocked' by a large red rectangle (taboo emphasis). It's moderately entertaining.
The second part of the film is more complex. Without exposing too much of the plot, it involves (as "Happiness" did) classism, racism, sexism, oh hell, any 'ism' you could imagine. But it works. It is simply a story of an upper middle class American family with the 2.5 kids and the proper suburban parents with a perfect son, the 'imperfect' son and the 'baby'. Kudos to John Goodman and Julie Haggerdy for participating in this movie. They bring life and legitimacy to their roles. Solondz filmed this well before "reality TV" was popular, and that is the premise. While the imperfect son is being secretly filmed for a documentary, the family struggles through it's own unusually tragic existence (the youngest of the three sons is the 'Brady Bunch brat' we always thought we wanted to see as evil). Needless to say, Solondz produces many shocks and surprises along the way. The trip is wildly entertaining, but the finale may leave the viewer distraught. Not that the story is poorly conceived or arranged, but simply that the ending is horribly, terribly depressing. It still good enough to recommend. I consider that a rare accomplishment for any film-maker.
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5.0 out of 5 starsstorytelling - a bleak, dischordant masterpiece
By K C Clayton on 30 Jun. 2002
Format: DVD
It's a film by Todd Solondz, who one suspects might be a little depressed given his previous film "happiness", which featured paedophilia, fetishism and a quite brilliant foreign cab driver. Despite being bleak and filled with dysfunctional people, it was simultaneously extremely funny in the darkest possible way. Sadly, Solondz is making his films at the wrong time, in almost any other year he would have received far greater recognition than he has currently received, with the main problem being that his cynical take on American values does not wash with the post September 11th mood of patriotism coursing through the hearts of every red-blooded American. So "Storytelling" finds itself in the position of being released on DVD in the UK before the US, probably for the reason mentioned. Given the heavy editing that US DVD releases receive, comparative to other countries, (as anyone who's heard about the blockbuster/swamp thing fiasco over there will know), the American audience will probably get a diluted hit of Solondz's vision of America today. Which is a shame, because while the mood may have shifted the problems Solondz targets are still the same old problems and you can't stay in denial forever.
If you've seen "Happiness" then "Storytelling" may disappoint you at first. Initially, it's not nearly as funny, exchanging humour for darkness. This mainly arises from the division of the film into two halves; fiction and non-fiction. Fiction is 20 minutes of the most bleak, uncompromising and horrible film-making I have seen. By horrible I mean that it's very difficult to watch because what you are seeing is not nice in any sense of that over-used word. It focuses on Selma Blair, a girl at college on what is presumably a creative writing course.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

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Published 1 month ago by Amazon Kunde
4.0 out of 5 stars“It’s just my opinion, but what do I know?” [Catherine]

This is the uncensored version but still lacks the third ‘act’ autobiography, which has never been released. Read more

Published 5 months ago by Throda tzen
4.0 out of 5 starsBit odd, but entertaining.

Storytelling!! Bought this because Selma Blair is in it. She is a hottie, and wasnt expecting to see that much of her.. ;o) Lovely!

Published on 10 Nov. 2012 by DD36
2.0 out of 5 starsblack but not comic

i couldnt really get into this ; first the short fiction part was ok , Selma Blair was great and I loved the way it poked fun about learning creative writing and how the sex stuff... Read more

Published on 10 Sept. 2012 by cartoon
1.0 out of 5 starsDon't.

I did not read any reviews of this film before I watched, pardon me, started to watch this film. And it seems I didn't read any reviews before I bought it, either. Read more

Published on 31 July 2011 by Manuela Heinzel
4.0 out of 5 starsA great film by todd solondz

This is without a doubt a great contraversal film about young people trying to make there way in life with there hindrances making it less than easy which is also what makes this... Read more

Published on 31 Dec. 2010 by movie maniac
4.0 out of 5 starsUnbalanced and uneven.

'Storytelling' is an uneven two part film from Toddy Solondz with the first part 'Fiction' about a college student who breaks up with her boyfriend and sleeps with her teacher, and... Read more

Published on 4 July 2010 by Ernie
5.0 out of 5 starsDifferent and disturbing

Storytelling is another highly enjoyable, if typically disturbing, work from the New York director Todd Solondz. Read more

Published on 30 Aug. 2007 by Bruno
3.0 out of 5 starsStorytelling

Two short films very much in the style of Solondz's previous hits, Happiness and Welcome to the Dollhouse. Read more

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