Don Peyote
2014 film by Dan Fogler
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Don Peyote is a 2014 American comedy film written and directed by Dan Fogler and Michael Canzoniero. It stars Fogler as a slacker who has a spiritual awakening and becomes obsessed with conspiracy theories.
- Dan Fogler
- Michael Canzoniero
- Dan Fogler
- Michael Canzoniero
- Thomas Michael Sullivan
- Luke Daniels
- Carlos Velazquez
- Stuart Braunstein
- Dan Fogler
- Kelly Hutchinson
- Jay Baruchel
- Josh Duhamel
- Annabella Sciorra
- Wallace Shawn
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| Cinematography | John Inwood |
| Edited by | Dan Bush |
| Music by | Ben Lovett |
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| Distributed by | XLrator |
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Running time | 99 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Plot
Warren (Dan Fogler) is an unemployed artist and pot head who has crazy dreams. That is the only remarkable thing about him until a day comes when a crazy homeless man confronts him on the street. From that day on, Warren descends into himself, insanity and a confusion of mind and body, spurred on by drugs, along with Doomsday and conspiracy theories.
Cast
- Dan Fogler as Warren Allman
- Josh Duhamel as Transient
- Jay Baruchel as Bates
- Wallace Shawn as Psychotherapist
- Kelly Hutchinson as Karen
- Yang Miller as Balance
- Anne Hathaway as Agent of TRUTH
- Topher Grace as Glavin Culpepper
- Annabella Sciorra as Giulietta
- Abel Ferrara as Taxi Cab Driver
- Daniel Pinchbeck as Himself
- William Leroy as Nazi Sex Addict
- Gavin Octavien as Extra
Production
Fogler recruited the large cast of cameos in part by allowing them to co-write their characters and improvise. The film was shot between 2010 and 2013.[1]
Release
Reception
Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, reports that only one of thirteen surveyed critics (8%) gave the film a positive rating; the average rating was 3.5/10.[4] Metacritic rated it 14/100 based on eight reviews.[5] Sheri Linden of The Hollywood Reporter wrote, "To call Don Peyote a mess would be putting too fine a point on it. The hallucinatory odyssey of a conspiracy-theory-obsessed New Yorker is a bad trip, destination nowhere."[6] Daniel M. Gold of The New York Times called it "a cautionary tale of drug-fueled decline" that may not have been realized by its creators.[7] Gary Goldstein of the Los Angeles Times called it "a tedious, incoherent look at a paranoid stoner's emotional and spiritual unraveling".[8] Calum Marsh of The Village Voice wrote that the film becomes increasingly incomprehensible as time goes on.[9] Christopher Schobert of Indiewire rated it D and wrote, "Perhaps in the hands of a Charlie Kaufman or Michel Gondry, this story could move beyond the unexceptional, but in Fogler's hands, Don Peyote is a slow-moving dirge."[10] Vadim Rizov of The Dissolve rated it 0/5 stars and wrote, "In practice, Dan Fogler's sophomore directorial effort (co-directed/written by Michael Canzoniero) is merely execrable, segueing incoherently from one stand-alone fragment of a terrible movie to another."[11]
