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American Movie (1999)
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5: excellent
4: very good
3: average
2: fair
 
1: poor
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3.00

I really wanted to like this movie. It's filmed like a documentary about some amateurs who want to make a movie. The director is 30 years old and lives at home with his parents. The movie he's filming in black and white is called "Coven", but he keeps pronouncing it Cove-n, because he say he doesn't want it to rhyme with oven. He is a goofy but determined guy. Everything is done on a very low budget, with sometimes funny results. An especially funny part is a rehearsal of the director/ star smashing a guy's head into a kitchen cabinet, which has been cut so that it breaks easy, but it hasn't been cut enough. Oops! But the movie is a little uneven and drawn out for it to get more than an average rating from me. But it's worth seeing.
— marty