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Jane White Is Sick and Twisted |  | Director: David Michael Latt
Actors: Kim Little, Wil Wheaton, Alley Mills, Richard Kline, Dustin Diamond
Studio: Mti Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  18 reviews
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 86 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: MTIDE8131D
UPC: 039414581317
EAN: 0039414581317
Theatrical Release Date: 2001
Release Date: May 6, 2003
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Studio: Mti Productions Release Date: 03/30/2004 Run time: 84 minutes Rating: R
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 TV World Satire Starring Wil Wheaton June 11, 2007
Celia A. Escalante (Miami, Fl USA)
Were there other actors besides Wil? I'm kidding. Kim Little played a very good impersonation of a childlike couch potato. This movie was packed with talent. If you enjoy the outrageous comedy of SNL, you'll enjoy this film. So many good and funny actors, such silly scenes and such interesting artistic techniques: this movie is will be a classic one day!
Wil Wheaton fans, like me, would certainly love to get this film as a gift. When I was 11 I had a huge crush on him. After more then a decade, I still have a crush on him and I always "WIL." He's such a sweet guy! In this film he gets the closest close-up I've ever seen in any movie. You can actually tell that his eyes are green or hazel. He makes lovy dovy stares at the camara! If you've ever had a crush on celebrity, you could understand how thilling it is. I've only seen this movie once, yesterday, but I hope I'll always come back to it, in tact, and relive all those youthful feelings. God bless all those people who make movies like this one!
 Pitiful December 18, 2004
Jeffrey Leach (Omaha, NE USA)
3 out of 9 found this review helpful
"Jane White is Sick and Twisted" is an extremely cheap piece of schlock paying homage to television. I hate television so I generally despised this movie. I tried not to despise it, and I watched enough network television as a kid to get most of the references in the film, but nonetheless I disliked this movie immensely. My opinion of television hovers somewhere near my opinion of communism: it sounds like a great idea in theory, but fails miserably in practice. There is something so plebian about sitcoms, made for television movies, and reality shows that should rankle anyone with an education extending beyond the fourth grade. I know that sounds snobby, and hypocritical as well considering that I do enjoy a few television shows ("The Rockford Files" and "Soap," for example), but that's how it is. The most frightening thing about television has little to do with the vacuous personalities who appear on it; it's how the medium changes your perceptions of reality. Don't believe me? Quit watching the box for several months and then tune in again. You'll be amazed how quickly your mental acuity dissipates. Unfortunately, too many people keep watching day in and day out just like the titular character in this movie.
Jane White (Kim Little) represents an extreme example of the television junkie. She has spent her entire life in front of the tube, to the point that she can no longer distinguish between reality and unreality. Her mother (Alley Mills) suffers from a chronic form of agoraphobia and thus is detached from her daughter's life. Jane's father, or so she believes, is a sleazy television talk show host named Gerry King (David Lauder), a man who makes Jerry Springer look like Ted Koppel. The only outside influence on Jane appears to be a local sleaze ball named Burger (Chris Hardwick) who shows up at the house from time to time. White does, however, keep in e-mail contact with a convicted serial killer named Kenny Kingman (Mickey Jones) even though her intense television schedule never afforded her the opportunity to learn how to write in any known language. One day, Jane conceives of a brilliant idea: why not do something outrageous in order to earn a spot on the Gerry King show? She can finally meet her father! White quickly takes cues from the program, dressing up as a harridan and roaming the streets at night just as King's guests do. The result of this expedition is odd to say the least. She meets up with a couple of transvestites (Andrew Lauer and Eric Lutes from "Caroline in the City"), a pimp (Debra Wilson), and a potential customer with a heart of gold (Colin Mochrie in the film's only redeeming performance).
With a little help, Jane sets out to see Gerry King. She quickly hooks up with a young dim bulb by the name of Smith (Wil Wheaton), and the two embark on their own series of adventures. They go, for example, out into the desert to make themselves available for abduction to any passing aliens (that darn King show again). Frankly, by this time I started dozing off from sheer boredom, so the rest of the movie became one big blur. I recall that Kenny Kingman escaped from prison in order to visit his pen pal. I also recall Alley Mills hooking up with next-door neighbor Burger. We also get a few scenes from King's wacked out television show, particularly a segment where a black man claiming to be Jesus (Phil LaMarr) argues with two trailer trash chicks named Tiffany and Nancy (Danica McKellar and Maureen McCormick respectively). Too, Richard Kline (Larry from "Three's Company") pops up from time to time as a television news anchor named Chris Jobin. It's not as though I missed anything of significance at any point in the film, though. "Jane White is Sick and Twisted" is, truthfully, television incarnate. Just like watching television in real life, you won't remember anything five minutes after you've seen it.
I do, most regrettably, remember Kim Little as Jane White. She mugs constantly at the camera, decked out in braces, wacky hairdos, and a fashion sense you wouldn't wish on your worst enemy. And she has a tendency to embark on disjointed monologues the likes of which haven't been heard since Katherine Helmond played Jessica Tate on "Soap," except they aren't nearly as funny as the latter. Little's over the top performance nearly obscures the numerous minor television personalities appearing in the film. Aside from the ones previously mentioned, we also see Ted Shackelford, Michelle Phillips, and even Dustin Diamond (Screech from "Saved by the Bell") as a wig wearing motel desk clerk. So what does all of this collected talent do for the film? Nothing. Nada. Doughnut. "Jane White is Sick and Twisted" is one of the most asinine, banal, poorly conceived ideas for a film ever thought up by a human being. In fact, I'm not sure a human being made this film. I wonder about all of those television signals that have been soaring through space since the medium's inception. I suspect an alien race analyzed these signals and made this as a result. You certainly need an alien sense of humor to laugh at this clunker.
The DVD version of the film contains a boatload of extras. There's a commentary track I didn't bother listening to, three trailers I barely watched, filmographies I ignored, deleted scenes I yawned my way through, games I wouldn't be caught dead playing, and some behind the scenes and making of stuff that sheds little light on why anyone would make such an atrocious film. Even worse, the picture and audio quality are the equivalent of week old bread. Take a pass on this one, folks. Life's too short to waste it watching drivel like this.
 Definitely "out there" August 8, 2004
K. Gittins (CA USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I wanted to see this movie for Danica McKellar ever since I saw a photo of her character. She has done a bunch of small stuff recently, but none of it's on DVD. Anyway, she only had about 2 minutes screen time (counting the bonus stuff), but it was worth it. "Winnie" she is not, here. Her character appears on a Jerry Springer show equivalent as a gum-smacking, stretch-pant wearing, sexually starved wife of a black man who thinks he's the son of God. Her husband argues back and then proceeds to french kiss Maureen McCormick's character, who is wearing a plastic bird on her head.
Alley Mills was a welcome addition as the alcoholic, smoking mother. Again, not "Norma Arnold" at all. She had a good sized role and was great.
The movie is definitely "out there". I'm not one for goofiness or silliness, but this made me laugh a bit, regardless.
Worth renting at least - and buying of you are a fan of Kim Little, Wil Weaton, or even Alley Mills. Lots of other TV people in supporting roles.
JANE WHITE IS JEJEUNE AND BANAL July 13, 2004
Gregor von Kallahann
6 out of 11 found this review helpful
I can't believe the packaging on this DVD actually had a blurb comparing it to BEING THERE. Actually, I can't believe anyone would compare JANE WHITE to much of anything other than maybe some would-be teenage cineaste's awkward first attempt at filmmaking. Painful to watch! I did not laugh once. My friend only rented it because she likes Colin Mochrie. I've only seen WHOSE LINE IS IT? once and scarcely remember it, so he wasn't a draw for me. And like every other actor in this disaster, he is ill served by the script, by the direction and by the awful cinematography (well, it looks like it was shot on video, so I'm not sure you can talk about genuine "cinematography"). I see that some reviewers find this a clever spoof on TV and the TV obsessed mind. And some just seem to like it because it's "cult." I dunno, you reach a point in life, I guess, when a bad film is just a bad film. And I guess at age 51, I've finally reached that point. If this is camp--well, send me HOME! OK, bad reviews are almost never voted "helpful" on Amazon. That's understandable, I guess. People want to believe the best about a movie (or book or CD) that they're kinda sorta interested in. Or maybe they're already fans, and they're looking for validation. Well, here's some advice that should prove "helpful" for anyone who has yet to see this film. Rent it first. Or better yet borrow it from the library. Plunk down as little money as possible before you decide whether you might be one of the rare, uh, discriminating few who might actually enjoy JANE WHITE IS SICK IS TWISTED enough to want to own it.
 sick & twisted & brilliant February 26, 2004
Jessica Neuman Beck (Portland, OR)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
This movie made me laugh harder than anything has in a long time. Some of the lines are absolutely precious. "I will handcuff you to my heart, and stab you repeatedly with my love." It's relevant and irreverant and hilarious - everything a good indie comedy should be.
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