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Desperately Seeking Paul McCartney | 
 enlarge | Director: Marc Cushman
Actors: Joe A. Giamalva, Ron Jeremy, Marc Cushman, Ryan James, Susan Osborn
Studio: MUSIC VIDEO DIST.
Category: DVD
List Price: $19.95
Buy New: $9.44
You Save: $10.51 (53%)
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 46177
Format: Color, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 84
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
UPC: 022891476597
EAN: 0022891476597
ASIN: B001CIOCGW
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
Release Date: September 2, 2008
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Product Description
August, 1965. Ruth Anson, a teenage-reporter for ABC-TV news, is covering the 'teen-beat.' One of her first interviews: the Beatles, where she asks a young Paul McCartney if he has any plans for marriage. His response, "Only if you'll marry me." Forty years later, Ruth, in search of "closure," obsessively attempts to reconnect with McCartney. "Help" is provided by an opportunist film director who sees Ruth's personal quest as a golden opportunity to reach his professional heights. He assigns a camera-crew to follow Ruth as she, in turn, follows McCartney. But it's not long before the director realizes this 'serious documentary' could just turn into a money-pit with limited marketability. And then he has a brainstorm: in the spirit of reality-TV, he manipulates his production to become more entertaining ... and far more embarrassing for the unsuspecting Ruth.
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 Waste of money!!! December 9, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The only thing worth seeing was the 15 second interview footage where Paul replies "only if you marry me" after being asked if he has any plans to marry. My husband is a diehard Beatles fan and was very excited to get this. He loves anything Beatles or Beatle related and very rarely dislikes songs, documentaries, cover groups etc. However, even he was disappointed.
 Clever Mockumentary November 5, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Desperately Seeking Paul McCartney is a clever mockumentary that appears to be making fun of itself, reality television, and the dreams that most of us harbor. DSPM isn't really supposed to be about Paul McCartney; he's just the catalyst. Come on; did you really think that they would get to Sir Paul? It's showing how a reality show can make a huge deal out of, well not so much, but once the project gets going, it must as they say remain married to the idea that "the show must go on."
Here's a review of the movie from someone who seems to understand what it is really about:
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Charming and Nostalgic October 19, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Loved it! A charming, nostalgic story, blended with a surprising look behind the scenes of the contemporary "reality show" genre (that seems to be destroying television these days.) Bitingly satirical, I guess I'll never know how much of it is real and how much was faked. You get the feeling the only one who really knows is Director Marc Cushman, playing his alter-ego, Director Marc Cushman, to maniacal perfection. Ruth Anson's sweetness and charm carries the movie, with dead-on Beatlesque songs by indie wunderkind Alan Bernhoft. Unexpectedly touching and uplifting on many levels.
 Even without McCartney, the show's worth seeing October 3, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I chose "Desperately Seeking Paul McCartney" because of its title and cover, and I hoped it contained some footage of McCartney that I had not seen before. Something miraculously discovered by a fan on a Betamax video that had been sitting on a shelf for 25 years or more.
Fifteen minutes into the movie, I realized that wasn't going to happen. But what was happening was intriguing. I didn't know where the story was going, but I wasn't about to hit the stop button because the director wasn't fulfilling MY fantasy of never-seen footage. The movie was becoming a mixture of documentary, mockumentary, reality TV and the Jerry Springer show on a tame day. I thought I might catch a glimpse of Gypsy Boots in the bg.
I couldn't decide if Ruth Anson, McCartney's pursuer, was in on the movie's joke. I still honestly don't know... but that isn't important. She is trying to fulfill her fantasy and reconnect with Paul with this outrageous cast of characters - straight out of Dante's Inferno, Queer Eye For the Straight Guy, Harold and Maude and others who live on the margin and follow her on her quest.
While I was a little disappointed that there wasn't a score of Beatle songs, that would have been out of sync with the rest of the movie. The movie was "Desperately Seeking Paul McCartney," not "Here is Paul McCartney." The sound tracks reminded me of some of the Beatle's songs yet sometimes they seemed to conflict with the mood of the scene, at other times, enhance it.
The funniest part of the movie was the unexpected appearance of porn star Ron Jeremy entering the Grammy awards - what a stroke of luck! The director and Jeremy obviously knew each other. The director seems to have taken full advantage of a chance meeting by writing Jeremy right into the script and giving him an important scene with Ruth.
This is one of those movies you keep thinking about after you've seen it because you believe you've missed something but you're not sure what it is. Second viewing required. I wanted to be supportive of Ruth but she is as wacko as the rest of the movie's characters- or is she? At times it seems she is being manipulated and abused by the director. But at any time she could have decided not to cooperate with the director and crew and left the set. Still, you can't help but imagine scenarios of her meeting with McCartney trailed by this Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad cast.
A. Chapman
Anti-Beatle September 30, 2008
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
This film has no involvement, musically or otherwise from the Beatles, except for archival newsreel footage. The idea is that its director will turn ex reporter Ruth Anson's idea to re-connect with Paul McCartney after he made a facetious marriage proposal to her during an interview decades ago into a joke on Anson's age, desperation and "out of it-ness". Supposedly Anson is in on the joke but it seems more like she was too deeply invested in the project and too fearful of not seeming like a good sport to withdraw when it took that change in direction. The positive reviews on this site must have come from people involved in the project. The film is tedious and boring. It is never ever funny and it is despicably mean. To try to ameliorate its cruelty by claiming it to be a mockumentary is a futile and transparent gesture. There is absolutely nothing here for fans of the Beatles, music or film. A complete and utterly vile undertaking that should never have seen the light of day.
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