One Night at McCool's

One Night at McCool's
File:One night at mccools.jpg Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Harald Zwart
Produced by	Michael Douglas Allison Lyon Segan
Written by	Stan Seidel
Starring	Liv Tyler Matt Dillon Paul Reiser John Goodman Michael Douglas Andrew Silverstein
Music by	Marc Shaiman
Cinematography	Karl Walter Lindenlaub
Edited by	Bruce Cannon
Production company	October Films As a Furthur Films
Distributed by	USA Films
Release dates	April 27, 2001 (2001-04-27)
Running time	92 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English Spanish
Budget	$18 million
Box office	$13,473,370

One Night at McCool's is a 2001 American crime comedy film written by Stan Seidel, directed by Harald Zwart, and starring Liv Tyler, Matt Dillon, Paul Reiser, John Goodman, Michael Douglas, and Andrew Silverstein.

Plot

The majority of the film consists of Randy, Carl, and Dehling reciting their separate lovesick accounts of their experiences with Jewel, each narrating over what they consider to be the real version of the recent events. Scenes are often re-enacted twice, with different accounts contradicting each other for comedic effect. For example, when Dehling is narrating, he acts as if he were a completely fair, by-the-book police officer, and Randy is painted as a slimy, macho, abusive thug. When Randy is telling the story, he is the innocent victim and Dehling is shown as a suspicious, prying, hard-nosed cop; Carl is convinced that every woman is in love with him, and during his version of the tale, everyone acts accordingly.

Cast

• Liv Tyler as Jewel
• Matt Dillon as Randy
• Paul Reiser as Carl
• John Goodman as Detective Dehling
• Michael Douglas as Mr. Burmeister
• Andrew Silverstein as Utah / Elmo
• Reba McEntire as Dr. Green
• Richard Jenkins as Father Jimmy
• Leo Rossi as Joey Dinardo
• Andrea Bendewald as Karen
• Sandy Martin as Bingo vendor woman
• Helen Hunt (deleted scenes) as Truck driver

Production

Writer Stan Seidel, who died prior to the film's release, drew much of the film's material from his days as a bartender at Humphrey's, a college bar located across the street from Saint Louis University in St. Louis, Missouri.

Reception

The film garnered mixed to poor reviews (Rotten Tomatoes rated it at 33%), with Roger Ebert saying that the film "is so busy with its crosscut structure and its interlocking stories that it never really gives us anyone to identify with" but that "it has a lot of fun being a near miss."

External links

• One Night at McCool's at IMDb
• One Night at McCool's at Box Office Mojo
• One Night at McCool's at Rotten Tomatoes
• One Night at McCool's at Metacritic