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Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
When Jay and Silent Bob learn that their comic-book alter egos, Bluntman and Chronic, have been sold to Hollywood as part of a big-screen movie that leaves them out of any royalties, the pair travel to Tinseltown to sabotage the production.
2001 · Directed by Kevin Smith · 104 min · Comedy · Adventure · Action · Screenplay in the scene database · 11 frames
Tagline
Hollywood had it coming.
Plot
Dante Hicks and Randal Graves get a restraining order against Jay and Silent Bob, finally fed up with their drug dealing outside the strip mall where they work after Jay and Silent Bob tell a pair of teenagers that they were married in a Star Wars-themed wedding. Not allowed within 100 feet of the strip mall for at least a year, Jay and Silent Bob visit Brodie Bruce at his comic shop, where they learn that Miramax Films is adapting Bluntman and Chronic, the comic book based on their likenesses.
The pair visit Holden McNeil, co-creator and co-writer of Bluntman and Chronic, and demand that he give them their royalty money from the film, but Holden explains he sold his half of the rights to co-creator and artist Banky Edwards. Seeing the film's negative reception online, the pair set out for Hollywood to prevent the film from ruining their image, or at least to receive the royalties owed to them.
En route, they befriend an animal liberation group: Justice, Sissy, Missy, Chrissy, and Brent. The organization is a front; Brent is a patsy, who will free animals from a laboratory as a diversion while the girls rob a diamond depository. Jay throws Brent out of their van to get closer to Justice, to whom he is attracted. Justice is fond of the pair, but reluctantly accepts them as new patsies. While the girls steal the diamonds, Jay and Silent Bob free the animals, stealing an orangutan named Suzanne. They escape as the police arrive and the van explodes, believing the girls have perished.
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Crew
- Screenplay: Kevin Smith
- Cinematography: Jamie Anderson
- Edited by: Kevin Smith, Scott Mosier
- Music: James L. Venable
- Production design: Robert Holtzman
- Produced by: Scott Mosier
Cast
- Jason Mewes as Jay
- Kevin Smith as Silent Bob
- Ben Affleck as Holden McNeil / Ben Affleck
- Shannon Elizabeth as Justice
- Eliza Dushku as Sissy
- Ali Larter as Chrissy
- Jennifer Schwalbach Smith as Missy
- Will Ferrell as Federal Wildlife Marshal Willenholly
- Chris Rock as Chaka Luther King
- Jason Lee as Brodie Bruce / Banky Edwards
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Dimension Films, View Askew Productions
- Budget: $22,000,000
- Box office: $33,788,161
- Themes: experiment, movie business, comic book, breaking the fourth wall, self mocking, gigantic hand, view askewniverse
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