Lisa Picard is Famous

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Lisa Picard is Famous

Introduction by Griffin Dunne

2000. 90 m. Griffin Dunne. Independent. US. English. Rated PG-13.

In director Griffin Dunne’s criminally underseen and underappreciated comedic meditation on fame, a documentary filmmaker (Dunne) begins to follow New York stage actress Lisa Picard (Laura Kirk) in hopes of capturing the moment when she finally becomes famous. Instead, Picard runs into continuous humiliating obstacles that derail her path to success, including watching as her best friend and fellow actor Tate (Nat DeWolf) lands his own solo show before she does. Employing a handicam-style mockumentary mode that anticipated later media satires such as Lisa Kudrow’s The Comeback, the film debuted at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival and features a star-studded cast of cameos including Sandra Bullock, Carrie Fisher, Spike Lee and more.

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"A satire that succeeds by being as heartfelt as it is hilarious."
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

"This hilarious fake documentary deserves a place beside the comedies of Christopher Guest in the hall of fame of semi-deadpan spoofs."
Stephen Holden, The New York Times

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Griffin Dunne, beloved for his starring roles in iconic films like An American Werewolf in London and Martin Scorsese's After Hours, continues to charm audiences and critics alike almost 30 years later. Most recently, Griffin can be seen in Darren Aronofsky's Caught Stealing and series like HBO’s The Girls on the Bus and Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building. Before that he was in the hit NBC series This is Us, opposite Mandy Moore and Sterling K. Brown. Other credits include the Oscar-winning Dallas Buyers Club, as well as a starring role in Joey Soloway’s provocative Amazon Studios dramedy I Love Dick opposite Kevin Bacon and Kathryn Hahn. Griffin is also an accomplished filmmaker having directed such films as Addicted to Love with Meg Ryan, Practical Magic with Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman, and the critically acclaimed Netflix documentary The Center Will Not Hold about his aunt Joan Didion. His family memoir The Friday Afternoon Club was released in bookstores in June of 2024.