Olivia Wilde Movie:

		List Price: $14.98		Label: Screen Media Salesrank: 19018 Released: August 21, 2007
		Our Price: $8.27
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		MPAA Rating: R (Restricted) Media: DVD

Editorial Review:
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Genre: Feature Film-Comedy
Rating: R
Release Date: 21-AUG-2007
Media Type: DVD

Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas Reviews:
For everybody who worked really hard on something...
2009-07-01 - ... and didn't know when to stop, how it fit in with the rest of reality, what to do with it and what life was going to mean when it was finally done. And do you really want people to love it? And if they do, what then?

The short and sweet is that the monster bong says the answer is... nobody knows diddly squat. That these questions are just a wee bit pretentious because it implies, incorrectly, that we have, any one of us, a clue.

I mean, I think that is what it said the answer was.... I think I'll watch it again and see what it says this time.





Not Bad For a Few Laughs
2009-05-08 - Quite a few big stars of comedy in this one. Thin plot, but generally funny. Not side-splitting or dark humor, but pretty decent. Gave it 3 rather than 4 only because it could have been funnier, having such great talent. But at a resonable price, it is worth a watch. Overall, smart college kid gets his book of ideas stolen, and it passed on to many people. He pursues it, meeting oddballs along the way, and meeting the hot Olivia Wilde (although I prefer brunettes, e.g. Eliza D., Angelina J., ect. ). Get it IF the price is right!

A Sensible Comedy
2008-10-23 - I didn't expect much from this movie, but I was pleasantly surprised. Some classify it as a sex comedy, but at its heart it really isn't any such thing. Yes, there are a couple of semi-nude scenes, but they really aren't central to the story. Instead, this is a story about the anxiety of losing one's diary. In this case, it isn't a social life diary, but an intellectual life diary. All kinds of comical situations arise when Bickford's precious book is stolen by a young vixen, then lost by her boyfriend. It is a pleasant surprise to watch a movie where one's intellect, as expressed in 'the book,' is admired by all who come into contact with this unusual diary. There is a bit of coarse language, but not as much as is usual in these type of comedies. Also, the laughs do not arise out of slapstick drivel, but out of the unexpected logical outcome of its setup.

Awesome Flick That Didn't Get Much Press
2008-08-16 - The thing about Patrick Fugit is that since his role in Almost Famous we haven't seen him much. Mostly he has been in television programs and movies like Saved, which received far more press than this film, but did not have him as the main character. Although this film will not be filed away in the archives of fabulous film-making, I feel that it has some merit and is worth watching. I first saw it on Comedy Central, and I knew that I would like the story, which is a "boy-meets-girl" type, but with an added twist, as the film involves a brilliant but stressed out college kid with mysterious problems--the attractive blonde fills in the rest. Not an excellent plot, but funny and a "feel good" movie. If you have the time to spare, check it out.

Patrick Fugit and Olivia Wilde are the reasons to see it
2008-04-11 - Bickford Schmeckler (Fugit) is a shy genius who spends all of his time compiling his wisdom in a large book. Since he lives in the basement of a noisy frat house he doesn't have many quiet moments of solitude. Rarely does Bickford go upstairs and talk to anybody. He thinks they are all inferior to him anyhow. One night his curiosity gets the better of him and he ventures upstairs. Bickford meets Sarah (Wilde) an extremely hot sorority sister. She is stoned and flirtatious and Bickford grows bored with her quickly. After he leaves she goes down to his room and discovers the book. She starts paging through it and experiences some kind of orgasm. She steals the book since it had that kind of effect on her. When Bickford discovers this he tells anyone who will listen that he has been raped. Emotionally raped that is. He tries to track Sarah down only to discover that she no longer has the book. She shared it with her musician boyfriend who threw it in the trash. A homeless schizophrenic (Matthew Lillard) who hears aliens is the next to pick it up. After he reads a few pages he comes to the conclusion that Bickford can help him. He won't give Bickford the book until he helps him defeat the aliens. The book winds up in the hands of a Dungeons and Dragons enthusiast (John Cho). He quits the game so he can make photocopies and distribute it on campus. One of Bickford's professors (Cheryl Hines) is the last person to whom the book passes. She's so impressed that one of her students could write something like this she contacts a publisher (Clark Gregg) who offers Bickford a large amount of money for his Cool Ideas. While Bickford grapples with the notion of selling out we learn the causes of what made him this way. It's all a bit like "Garden State". Bickford had a sick mom, is severely depressed and removed, and all it takes is a good looking gal to snap him out of it and get him to start living again. The film is too quick at eighty odd minutes to leave any lasting impressions but Patrick Fugit is the ideal leading man and Olivia Wilde is so damn hot that you don't doubt for a second that she could get Bickford excited. There are funny supporting players but Fugit and Wilde make this movie work.