If you starred in one of the decade’s great American indies, you’d probably expect the film industry to ask you to stick around for a little while, right? Well, apparently things don’t always shake out that way. In 2005, Noah Baumbach’s low-fi masterpiece “The Squid and the Whale” was the talk of the town, a fixture on year-end top ten lists that re-ignited the director’s career and launched Jesse Eisenberg towards stardom. Hell, it even made The Museum of Natural History seem cool, again. But what ever happened to Halley Feiffer, the girl who played Eisenberg’s girlfriend, Sophie Greenberg? History doesn’t seem to have been kind to her. Despite playing a pivotal role in the film, she’s not even mentioned on the film’s Wikipedia page.
Well, in real life (which I guess is what counts?), Feiffer seems to have done okay for herself, continuing to work in film and tv while also starring in a bunch of Off-Broadway productions. But her new comedy, “He’s Way More Famous Than You,” peeks into the looking glass and imagines a world where things didn’t go quite so well. Playing a role that she co-wrote and kind of lived, the movie finds Feiffer re-imagining herself as a hot mess, a fading indie starlet whose lust for fame is only matched by her need for another drink. An industry satire filled with familiar faces and intensely painful cringe-comedy (aka the best kind of cringe-comedy), “He’s Way More Famous Than You” is a hilarious look at what happens to the Sundance Kid after the credits roll.
Here’s an exclusive clip from the film, includes what might be movie history’s most intense reference to “The Outsiders.”
“He’s Way More Famous Than You” opens in limited release on May 10.
Check out the official synopsis:
When once-up-and-coming indie film starlet Halley Feiffer loses her boyfriend, her agent and her career in one fell swoop she finally realizes that something has got to change…she has to become WAY MORE FAMOUS! Armed with a stolen script and two pitchers of sangria, Halley enlists the help of her brother Ryan and his boyfriend to make a movie, starring herself (of course), and any A-list celebrity she can land. She will stop at nothing, even if it means hurting the only people who truly care about her.
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