A newly married couple tries to enhance their social life by throwing fabulous parties and inviting all their friends in Brooklyn to their home.A newly married couple tries to enhance their social life by throwing fabulous parties and inviting all their friends in Brooklyn to their home.A newly married couple tries to enhance their social life by throwing fabulous parties and inviting all their friends in Brooklyn to their home.
Christopher Reed
- Travis
- (as Chris Reed)
Louise Stratten
- N. Y. Subway Girl
- (as L.B. Straten)
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- TriviaNoah Baumbach claimed this film to be a "failed experiment," reusing most of the same cast from his previous film Mr. Jealousy (1997). He also said the film was essentially unfinished due to his producer pulling out and them not having enough time to shoot it.
- Crazy creditsThanks to the cast and crew for shooting Highball in just six days
- ConnectionsReferenced in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)
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Funny...but not for fans of Hollywood "comedies"
Okay, now this is a very funny movie...if you can appreciate its brand of humor. If big-budget Hollywood comedies are your bag, and you need a bunch of sight gags and constant over-the-top situations in order to laugh, then you'll probably see this movie as a boring, poorly-made waste of time. But it's not...and if you're a fan of stage plays or older-style comedy films (before the attention span of the average film-goer plummeted), then you'll certainly get some laughs from this outing.
Filmed on a shoestring budget over six shooting days, this film is an impressive result. If it had been shot in three months, and had turned out the way it had, it wouldn't seem quite as impressive...but it would still be a funny movie. What I'm saying here is that not only is it a good comedy, it's also one of those rare films that's shot quickly, for very little money, and STILL manages to shine.
As a filmmaker, I would have never attempted to shoot a comedy on such a tight schedule, with so little money. Comedies are very tricky...by comparison, dramas are much easier...at least in my mind. But this little no-budget comedic gem packs in enough laughs to please fans of stage comedies and classic cinematic comedies. Truly an impressive film which delivered more than I'd expected it to.
Filmed on a shoestring budget over six shooting days, this film is an impressive result. If it had been shot in three months, and had turned out the way it had, it wouldn't seem quite as impressive...but it would still be a funny movie. What I'm saying here is that not only is it a good comedy, it's also one of those rare films that's shot quickly, for very little money, and STILL manages to shine.
As a filmmaker, I would have never attempted to shoot a comedy on such a tight schedule, with so little money. Comedies are very tricky...by comparison, dramas are much easier...at least in my mind. But this little no-budget comedic gem packs in enough laughs to please fans of stage comedies and classic cinematic comedies. Truly an impressive film which delivered more than I'd expected it to.
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- Dec 26, 2002
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