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Storytelling (film)
Storytelling Cast
• Selma Blair - Vi (’Fiction’)
• Leo Fitzpatrick - Marcus (’Fiction’)
• Robert Wisdom - Mr. Scott (’Fiction’)
• Maria Thayer - Amy (’Fiction’)
• Angela Goethals - Elli (’Fiction’)
• Devorah Rose - Lucy (’Fiction’)
• Nancy Anne Ridder - Joyce (’Fiction’)
• Steve Rosen - Ethan (’Fiction’) (as Steven Rosen)
• Aleksa Palladino - Catherine (’Fiction’)
• Mary Lynn Rajskub - Melinda (’Fiction’)
• Tina Holmes - Sue (’Fiction’)
• Paul Giamatti - Toby Oxman (’Non-fiction’)
• Mike Schank - Mike the Cameraman (’Non-fiction’)
• Xander Berkeley - Mr. DeMarco (’Non-fiction’)
• Mark Webber - Scooby Livingston (’Non-fiction’)
• John Goodman - Marty Livingston (’Non-fiction’)
• Julie Hagerty - Fern Livingston (’Non-fiction’)
DVD cover for Storytelling
• Noah Fleiss - Brady Livingston (’Non-fiction’)
Directed by Todd Solondz
Produced by Christine Vachon, Third story
Ted Hope
The original version of the film featured a third story,
Written by Todd Solondz concerning, among other things, a closeted football play-
Starring Selma Blair er played by actor James van der Beek.[1] But for un-
Leo Fitzpatrick known reasons, possibly that the character had an ex-
plicit sex scene with a male partner, the entire story was
Release date(s) January 27, 2002
cut from the final version.[2]
Running time 87 minutes
Country United States Red box controversy
Language English During the sex scene in the "Fiction" part of the film, a
red box was added for the American version of the film,
Storytelling is a 2001 film, directed by Todd Solondz. It fea- blocking the audience’s view of a rough sex scene be-
tures original music by Belle & Sebastian, later compiled tween Selma Blair and Robert Wisdom. This was used to
on an album of the same name. It was screened in the bend the rules of the MPAA’s rating system, allowing the
Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festi- film to obtain the R rating instead of NC-17. Initially the
val.[1] red box was to have had the word "Censored" on it, but
the MPAA also deemed this unacceptable because they
Plot do not consider themselves censors.[citation needed] Solondz
described the addition of the box as a political statement:
The film consists of two stories that are unrelated and "I was prepared to make that political statement. This is
have different actors, titled "Fiction" and "Non-Fiction." something I’ve always been prepared to do, as long as the
"Fiction," starring Selma Blair, is about a group of college audience is aware of what it’s not allowed to see. That’s
students in a creative writing class taught by a professor how I feel "politically" about that. (...)" [3]The box is not
who has affairs with his students. "Non-Fiction," starring present in the international version of the film, although
Paul Giamatti and John Goodman, is about the filming of in the American DVD release, both options are available.
a high school student and his family through the college
application process.
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References External links
[1] "Festival de Cannes: Storytelling". festival- • Storytelling at the Internet Movie Database
cannes.com. http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/ • Storytelling at Rotten Tomatoes
archives/ficheFilm/id/1100059/year/2001.html.
Retrieved 2009-10-23.
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