AT LONG LAST …
|| By FITSNEWS || Remember “Nailed?” If not, you’re forgiven … it’s been a long time.
We first started writing on the movie back in March of 2008 … shortly before its principal photography began shooting on the grounds of the S.C. State House. Of course like everything that touches the S.C. State House, “Nailed” quickly came to ruin.
After numerous financial problems, cast quarrels and other issues, in July of 2010 director David O. Russell dropped out of the project – leaving its future in limbo. In March 2011 an unfinished cut of “Nailed” was screened in Los Angeles … which was the last we’d heard of the film.
Until now …
“Nailed” – starring Jessica Biel, Jake Gyllenhaal, Catherine Keener, James Marsden, Tracy Morgan and James Brolin – was finally released this week. Seriously … seven years after the project began, it’s finally been completed.
Of course it’s no longer referred to as “Nailed,” it’s been rechristened “Accidental Love” – but the plot is still the same.
Biel plays Alice Eckle, a waitress who gets shot in the head with a nail gun – causing bizarre mood swings and “hypersexual” behavior. Frustrated that her injury wasn’t covered by health care, she goes to Washington, D.C. to lobby Congress on behalf of the bizarrely-injured. There she meets Howard Birdwell (Gyllenhaal’s character) – who of course takes full advantage of her, um, “condition.”
How’d the long-awaited (well, long-delayed) product turn out? Here’s the trailer …
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Interesting …
Reviews of the movie have been less-than-flattering, but its basic premise still strikes us as funny. And there’s certainly enough S.C. State House footage included in the trailer to convince a few Palmetto politicos to give it a watch.
Of course what’s especially interesting is how the movie’s plot – written by Kristin Gore, daughter of former U.S. vice president Al Gore – was pimping the efficacy of expanded health care right at the time Barack Obama was rolling out his socialized medicine monstrosity.
“Had the film opened back in 2008, the focus on healthcare reform might have seemed timely, even prescient; post-Obamacare, its specific take now just seems behind-the-times,” one reviewer wrote.
Translation? This particular Hollywood effort to give Obamacare some cultural tailwind was about as successful as … well, Obamacare.
11 comments
While I usually make it a point to watch movies filmed in SC, even if they probably suck, but purely for curiosity’s sake (see Death Sentence http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0804461/ ), I don’t think I’ll be able to bring myself to endure this one.
After watching the trailer, I want my 2 minutes back!
No need for me to see this movie. I’ve experienced all of those personalities exhibited by the women I have bedded. Fellas, they are out there and they all still live within 60 miles of the State House. Good luck to ya’ — if you’re man enough to handle them!
It bears repeating…the crazy / hot matrix is real!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKWmFWRVLlU
Realistic —- and True! ….had to pick myself off of the floor to reply!
My favorite part is still when he says “girls named Tiffany”.
THAT “NAILED” MOVIE FINALLY CAME OUT
At first glance, two days prior to the Valentine’s Day release, sounds like Fifty Shades of Grey.
I was around when they were filming several of the scenes. Let’s just say this was the most fucked up movie shoot that most of the crew had been around. I watched the trailer and doubt I’ll even bother wasting my time watching the movie… usually the trailer is clips of the best part of the movie and this trailer sucked from end to end.
Oh Scott, don’t cry that your little part as an extra was cut. Boo Hoo
Oh dear Lord, let’s hope not… it’s the scene where Jessica is blowing me, if cut it’ll shorten the film by 23 minutes.
Based on a true story…
Hey the movie still came out before I published that book I was supposedly writing. Remember “Mud, Sex and Beers: My life in the dirty, seedy, drunken cesspool of South Carolina politics.” Too bad no publisher would touch it with a ten foot pole. Plus I can’t write.