SKINNY DIP (Evan of NY)
Directed By: Noah Baumbach
Written By: Carl Hiassen and Noah Baumbach
CAST
Joey Perrone - Bryce Dallas Howard
Mick Stranahan - George Clooney
Chaz Perrone - Ralph Fiennes
Earl Edward O'Toole - Michael Shannon
Red Hammernut - Alan Arkin
Ricca - Jennifer Hudson
Karl Rolvaag - Patrick Wilson
with
Rose Jewell - Anna Farris
Maureen - Vanessa Redgrave
Corbett - Jeremy Sisto
TAGLINE: "Chaz Perrone (might) be the only marine biologist in florida who doesn't know which way the Gulf Stream runs."
Synopsis: Chaz Perrone is a marine biologist who has zero interest in preserving the environment. He is more interested in money, golf, and having hot sex with his beautiful, rich, wife Joey whenever the time permits. Chaz is employed by the Florida state authority, and his job is to test the waters in the everglades for dangerous toxic levels. But his nearly insatiable greed leads him to team up with the wicked farm tycoon Red Hammernut, whose farms pollute the everglades with fertilizer runoff at an alarming rate. Chaz is secretly on his payroll as well, and forges the test results on a regular basis. One evening his wife Joey gets home early and sees her husband filling in charts on the health of the water. Joey has no idea what the charts mean, nor does she care, but Chaz is convinced she knows everything about the cover up and decides, on the spot, to murder his wife.
On their second wedding anniversary, Chaz takes Joey an a cruise. When they are right over the Gulf Stream, Chaz throws her overboard, knowing that the current will take her out to sea and she will surely drown. Once on shore, Chaz tells the authorities that Joey had probably had too much to drink and fallen over the side. They believe him because there are no witnesses, and Chaz plays the role of a heartbroken husband quite convincingly, but investigator Karl Rolvaag is suspicious of his rehearsed grief and decides to do some digging on his own, even though he can't find any motive supporting his suspicion of murder (Joey was rich, but Chaz wasn't in the will). Chaz should have known this, but the Gulf Stream actually wouldn't carry Joey out to sea, it would carry her back towards Florida. And back to florida she came, floating for 8 hours on a bale of marijuana before she was picked up by Mick Stranahan, an handsome ex-investigator with the State Attorney, now caretaker of a spanish novelist's island.
Joey and Mick decide not to report that she is still alive, and hatch a plan to find out why Chaz tried to murder her. Joey re-enters her old house and lays out pieces of her clothes and a picture of her and Chaz with her face cut out. Chaz is incredibly unsettled and tells Red, who appoints the illiterate Earl O'Toole to watch Chaz and his house. Earl collects highway fatality markers and is addicted to the pain killer fentenyl because when he was a kid, his father accidentally shot him in the ass with a shotgun and he never got the bullets removed. He often sneaks into nursing homes pretending to be an employee and steals the patches off of them. On one such visit he meets an old women named Maureen who is more than happy to share both her painkillers, and her dreams.
Meanwhile, Joey and Mick develop a sexual relationship, as well as a more complex plan of getting Chaz back. The two invent a witness and call Chaz, telling him every detail of the night. Chaz, convinced that it was Rolvaag who had called him, acuses the detective of blackmailing him. This does nothing but cause even more suspicion from Rolvaag, and invigorate the dormant case. Mick recruits his brother and law, a corrupt lawyer, to draw up a fake revision to Joey's will, in which she leaves her entire fortune to Chaz, and delivers copies to both Chaz and the police department. Chaz's greed coupled with the police departments rising suspicion lead Chaz to be even more paranoid about the entire situation. He soon decides that his new friend with benefits, Ricca, a hairdresser from Miami, is the blackmailers girlfriend and is spying on him. Thusly, he drives Ricca out into the everglades, tells her to get out of the car, and shoots at her six times with a pistol. Lucky for Ricca, Chaz is a terrible shot and only manages to hit her once, in the leg. Ricca falls into the water and Chaz assumes she's drowned and drives away. Ricca did not drown, however, and with the help of an vietnam vet who lives in the everglades, she returns to safety.
Joey and Mick decide to spice things up a bit with Chaz and let Corbett, Joey's sheep farming brother who lives in New Zealand, in on their plan. Corbett sets up a fake memorial service where Chaz is set to give a speech. But as Chaz is standing at the podium, Ricca walks in on crutches and sits in the back row next to Rolvaag, and Chaz faints. Joey also involves her sexy friend from book club, Rose Jewell, who seduces Chaz after the memorial service and then drugs him. When he wakes, he assumes he is talking to a hulicination of his dead wife, when in reality she is sitting right next to him. When Joey asks him why he killed her, he reveals details of his deal with Red Hammernut, as well as telling her he only married her because she was hot and the sex was phenomenal. Feeling no remorse for him, Joey leaves him a letter telling him that that evening there would be a rendevous to collect $500,00 in blackmail money from him. Red Hammernut, fearing what would happen if information about him got out, provides Chaz with the money, but instructs Earl to shoot Chaz before the rendevous and bring the money back to him. Inspired by Maureen, Earl decides that he won't shoot Chaz because he wants to reform and become a normal citizen. Fearing that Red might have told Earl to shoot him, Chaz shoots Earl while they are on a boat headed for Mick's island, and he falls into the water. Chaz's shooting, however, had not improved, and Earl survived. Mick and Corbett, in a nearby boat, haul Earl out of the water as Chaz pulls up on shore. There, he is confronted by Joey, who tells him she's on her way to the police. Mortified, Chaz flees in his boat. He goes to his house and composes a suicide note, his new plan being to start a new life in Costa Rica, but before he can leave, he's snatched out of his house by Red Hammernut and Earl, who had been tipped off to where he might go by a vengeful Ricca. As they're driving back to Red's farm, Red insults Earl, who procedes to kill him and impale him on a roadside cross. He then pushes Chaz out of the truck and tells him to run. Chaz runs off into the everglades, and Earl goes to kidnap Maureen and takes her to Canada so that she can see the pelicans migrating before she dies.
Joey moves in with Mick, and Corbett invites Ricca to spend some time on his farm in New Zealand. Chaz meets up with the old vietnam veteran who lives in the swamp, and although nobody quite knows what happened to him, it can be assumed that nature, as always, took its course.
Press Section: Carl Hiassen is known for writing novels where environmental consciousness is the main theme. In his own adaptation of his best-selling novel "Skinny Dip," that is also the case. Hilarious, well acted, and sharply written, "Skinny Dip" is one of the years most zany and enjoyable films. director Noah Baumbach has assembled a star-studded cast led by the always wonderful Bryce Dallas Howard and the incomparable George Clooney to bring Hiassen's critically acclaimed novel to life. "Skinny Dip" is essentially a comedy about a man named Chaz who tries to murder his wife Joey by pushing her from a cruise ship. He thinks she has figured out that he has been forging data on the toxicity levels of the everglades, and being paid for it by a tyranical farm tycoon who has been allowing illegal levels of runoff into the everglades. But when his wife survives by floating on a bale of mariuanna and is rescued the next morning by an 53 year old ex-cop named Mick , the two decide not to tell anyone she's still alive, and play with Chaz's mind a little. But when Mick uncovers the Everglades plot, the game gets even more complicated as they try and force Chaz to, basically, fuck himself up. "Skinny Dip" is wacky, for sure, but at it's heart it's a very touching story line about a wife who survives a murder attempt by her husband and is driven not just by a need to get even, but by wanting to know why he did it. The villains are also directly linked to the destruction of the everglades, and wanting Joey to get back at Chaz is interchangeable with wanting them to uncover Red's pollution and save the everglades. "Skinny Dip" is really a classic farce with a modern twist, and is a wonderfully absurd and complex escape. Bryce Dallas Howard is fantastic as Joey, and George Clooney's arrogant Mick is one of the funniest characters this year. With fantastic supporting turns by Alan Arkin, Michael Shannon, Jennifer Hudson, and Patrick Wilson and a great couple of cameo's from Venessa Redgrave and Anna Farris, "Skinny Dip" has one of the best ensemble's in recent memory. But the best performance comes from Ralph Fiennes, who plays a sex addicted, ego-centric, con-man with admirable conviction and just the right amount of crazy. His performance should certainly be considered come oscar time as one of the most hilarious, imaginative portrayals of the year. "Skinny Dip" is wild, wacky, and side-splittingly funny, but it also has a warm beating heart and a great message about environmental consciousness. One of the years most entertaining, engaging films.
Awards Consideration
Best Picture
Best Director - Noah Baumbach
Best Adapted Screenplay - Noah Baumbach and Carl Hiassen
Best Actress - Bruce Dallas Howard
Best Actor - George Clooney
Best Actor - Ralph Fiennes
Best Supporting Actor - Michael Shannon
Best Supporting Actor - Alan Arkin
Best Supporting Actress - Jennifer Hudson
Written By: Carl Hiassen and Noah Baumbach
CAST
Joey Perrone - Bryce Dallas Howard
Mick Stranahan - George Clooney
Chaz Perrone - Ralph Fiennes
Earl Edward O'Toole - Michael Shannon
Red Hammernut - Alan Arkin
Ricca - Jennifer Hudson
Karl Rolvaag - Patrick Wilson
with
Rose Jewell - Anna Farris
Maureen - Vanessa Redgrave
Corbett - Jeremy Sisto
TAGLINE: "Chaz Perrone (might) be the only marine biologist in florida who doesn't know which way the Gulf Stream runs."
Synopsis: Chaz Perrone is a marine biologist who has zero interest in preserving the environment. He is more interested in money, golf, and having hot sex with his beautiful, rich, wife Joey whenever the time permits. Chaz is employed by the Florida state authority, and his job is to test the waters in the everglades for dangerous toxic levels. But his nearly insatiable greed leads him to team up with the wicked farm tycoon Red Hammernut, whose farms pollute the everglades with fertilizer runoff at an alarming rate. Chaz is secretly on his payroll as well, and forges the test results on a regular basis. One evening his wife Joey gets home early and sees her husband filling in charts on the health of the water. Joey has no idea what the charts mean, nor does she care, but Chaz is convinced she knows everything about the cover up and decides, on the spot, to murder his wife.
On their second wedding anniversary, Chaz takes Joey an a cruise. When they are right over the Gulf Stream, Chaz throws her overboard, knowing that the current will take her out to sea and she will surely drown. Once on shore, Chaz tells the authorities that Joey had probably had too much to drink and fallen over the side. They believe him because there are no witnesses, and Chaz plays the role of a heartbroken husband quite convincingly, but investigator Karl Rolvaag is suspicious of his rehearsed grief and decides to do some digging on his own, even though he can't find any motive supporting his suspicion of murder (Joey was rich, but Chaz wasn't in the will). Chaz should have known this, but the Gulf Stream actually wouldn't carry Joey out to sea, it would carry her back towards Florida. And back to florida she came, floating for 8 hours on a bale of marijuana before she was picked up by Mick Stranahan, an handsome ex-investigator with the State Attorney, now caretaker of a spanish novelist's island.
Joey and Mick decide not to report that she is still alive, and hatch a plan to find out why Chaz tried to murder her. Joey re-enters her old house and lays out pieces of her clothes and a picture of her and Chaz with her face cut out. Chaz is incredibly unsettled and tells Red, who appoints the illiterate Earl O'Toole to watch Chaz and his house. Earl collects highway fatality markers and is addicted to the pain killer fentenyl because when he was a kid, his father accidentally shot him in the ass with a shotgun and he never got the bullets removed. He often sneaks into nursing homes pretending to be an employee and steals the patches off of them. On one such visit he meets an old women named Maureen who is more than happy to share both her painkillers, and her dreams.
Meanwhile, Joey and Mick develop a sexual relationship, as well as a more complex plan of getting Chaz back. The two invent a witness and call Chaz, telling him every detail of the night. Chaz, convinced that it was Rolvaag who had called him, acuses the detective of blackmailing him. This does nothing but cause even more suspicion from Rolvaag, and invigorate the dormant case. Mick recruits his brother and law, a corrupt lawyer, to draw up a fake revision to Joey's will, in which she leaves her entire fortune to Chaz, and delivers copies to both Chaz and the police department. Chaz's greed coupled with the police departments rising suspicion lead Chaz to be even more paranoid about the entire situation. He soon decides that his new friend with benefits, Ricca, a hairdresser from Miami, is the blackmailers girlfriend and is spying on him. Thusly, he drives Ricca out into the everglades, tells her to get out of the car, and shoots at her six times with a pistol. Lucky for Ricca, Chaz is a terrible shot and only manages to hit her once, in the leg. Ricca falls into the water and Chaz assumes she's drowned and drives away. Ricca did not drown, however, and with the help of an vietnam vet who lives in the everglades, she returns to safety.
Joey and Mick decide to spice things up a bit with Chaz and let Corbett, Joey's sheep farming brother who lives in New Zealand, in on their plan. Corbett sets up a fake memorial service where Chaz is set to give a speech. But as Chaz is standing at the podium, Ricca walks in on crutches and sits in the back row next to Rolvaag, and Chaz faints. Joey also involves her sexy friend from book club, Rose Jewell, who seduces Chaz after the memorial service and then drugs him. When he wakes, he assumes he is talking to a hulicination of his dead wife, when in reality she is sitting right next to him. When Joey asks him why he killed her, he reveals details of his deal with Red Hammernut, as well as telling her he only married her because she was hot and the sex was phenomenal. Feeling no remorse for him, Joey leaves him a letter telling him that that evening there would be a rendevous to collect $500,00 in blackmail money from him. Red Hammernut, fearing what would happen if information about him got out, provides Chaz with the money, but instructs Earl to shoot Chaz before the rendevous and bring the money back to him. Inspired by Maureen, Earl decides that he won't shoot Chaz because he wants to reform and become a normal citizen. Fearing that Red might have told Earl to shoot him, Chaz shoots Earl while they are on a boat headed for Mick's island, and he falls into the water. Chaz's shooting, however, had not improved, and Earl survived. Mick and Corbett, in a nearby boat, haul Earl out of the water as Chaz pulls up on shore. There, he is confronted by Joey, who tells him she's on her way to the police. Mortified, Chaz flees in his boat. He goes to his house and composes a suicide note, his new plan being to start a new life in Costa Rica, but before he can leave, he's snatched out of his house by Red Hammernut and Earl, who had been tipped off to where he might go by a vengeful Ricca. As they're driving back to Red's farm, Red insults Earl, who procedes to kill him and impale him on a roadside cross. He then pushes Chaz out of the truck and tells him to run. Chaz runs off into the everglades, and Earl goes to kidnap Maureen and takes her to Canada so that she can see the pelicans migrating before she dies.
Joey moves in with Mick, and Corbett invites Ricca to spend some time on his farm in New Zealand. Chaz meets up with the old vietnam veteran who lives in the swamp, and although nobody quite knows what happened to him, it can be assumed that nature, as always, took its course.
Press Section: Carl Hiassen is known for writing novels where environmental consciousness is the main theme. In his own adaptation of his best-selling novel "Skinny Dip," that is also the case. Hilarious, well acted, and sharply written, "Skinny Dip" is one of the years most zany and enjoyable films. director Noah Baumbach has assembled a star-studded cast led by the always wonderful Bryce Dallas Howard and the incomparable George Clooney to bring Hiassen's critically acclaimed novel to life. "Skinny Dip" is essentially a comedy about a man named Chaz who tries to murder his wife Joey by pushing her from a cruise ship. He thinks she has figured out that he has been forging data on the toxicity levels of the everglades, and being paid for it by a tyranical farm tycoon who has been allowing illegal levels of runoff into the everglades. But when his wife survives by floating on a bale of mariuanna and is rescued the next morning by an 53 year old ex-cop named Mick , the two decide not to tell anyone she's still alive, and play with Chaz's mind a little. But when Mick uncovers the Everglades plot, the game gets even more complicated as they try and force Chaz to, basically, fuck himself up. "Skinny Dip" is wacky, for sure, but at it's heart it's a very touching story line about a wife who survives a murder attempt by her husband and is driven not just by a need to get even, but by wanting to know why he did it. The villains are also directly linked to the destruction of the everglades, and wanting Joey to get back at Chaz is interchangeable with wanting them to uncover Red's pollution and save the everglades. "Skinny Dip" is really a classic farce with a modern twist, and is a wonderfully absurd and complex escape. Bryce Dallas Howard is fantastic as Joey, and George Clooney's arrogant Mick is one of the funniest characters this year. With fantastic supporting turns by Alan Arkin, Michael Shannon, Jennifer Hudson, and Patrick Wilson and a great couple of cameo's from Venessa Redgrave and Anna Farris, "Skinny Dip" has one of the best ensemble's in recent memory. But the best performance comes from Ralph Fiennes, who plays a sex addicted, ego-centric, con-man with admirable conviction and just the right amount of crazy. His performance should certainly be considered come oscar time as one of the most hilarious, imaginative portrayals of the year. "Skinny Dip" is wild, wacky, and side-splittingly funny, but it also has a warm beating heart and a great message about environmental consciousness. One of the years most entertaining, engaging films.
Awards Consideration
Best Picture
Best Director - Noah Baumbach
Best Adapted Screenplay - Noah Baumbach and Carl Hiassen
Best Actress - Bruce Dallas Howard
Best Actor - George Clooney
Best Actor - Ralph Fiennes
Best Supporting Actor - Michael Shannon
Best Supporting Actor - Alan Arkin
Best Supporting Actress - Jennifer Hudson
