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That’s Adequate (1990)

Tags: Starring Role, Minimal Screentime, Comedy, Independent, Suffer Through, Career Trajectory: Unknown Actor, Not Released on DVD, Rated R

Summary

Faux documentary about a movie studio, with fake interviews and films.

Director

Harry Hurwitz

Downey Factor

Very low. He only has about a minute on screen.

Character

A pirate version of Albert Einstein in a fake film called “Albert Einstein on the Bounty”

Looks

Young with high hair.

Performance

Fleeting, but highly amusing.

Line

You know, there’s a lot to learn here. One could contemplate the secrets of time, space, energy, all that bullshit. Molecules heating, gasses expanding, atoms colliding, matter exploding — this is fucking brilliant! Wait, wait, I was on to something — E equals MA — no, Jesus Christ, I got it! Time, space, energy, matter — E equals MC fucking squared! Look! It’s the pirates from the Berlin Academy of Physics. They roam the seas looking for radical physicists with new ideas. Off with their heads!

Love & Sex

Not at all.

Dies, Gay or Villain

No, no, no.

Cast

Bruce Willis, Jerry Stiller, Rita Rudner, Sinbad, Tony Randall, Maureen McCormick, Ben Stiller

Connection

Ben Stiller in Black and White and Tropic Thunder. Richard Lewis in The Last Party and Hugo Pool.

Availability

Released in theaters January 1990. Rare, out of print. Not released on DVD.

Overall

Other faux documentaries run circles around this one. Although he’s quite funny, not worth seeing for 1 minute of Downey.

If You Like It

You might also like Tropic Thunder (2008), Soapdish (1991)

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