Freddy Got Fingered (2001)
Summary
An aspiring cartoonist returns home and clashes with his dysfunctional family, leading to a series of bizarre and outrageous misadventures.
Director
Tom Green
Writer
Tom Green
Derek Harvie
Cast
- Tom Green as Gord Brody
- Rip Torn as Jim Brody
- Marisa Coughlan as Betty
- Eddie Kaye Thomas as Freddy Brody
- Julie Hagerty as Julie Brody
- Anthony Michael Hall as Mr. Davidson
Rotten Tomatoes: 11%
Metacritic: 13
VOD / Release
Theatrical release
Trailer
Official Trailer
by LiteraryBoner
21 Comments
I’m glad that this exists for Tom Green fans. It must be like an alcoholic being given a bottle of absinthe.
YOU HEAR THAT DAD????
Maybe the most millennial thing about me is that I find Tom Green hilarious and I still think this movie is funny. I remember staying up late to watch his weird talk show when I was a teen, and him proving the weird kid can get the girl when him and Drew Barrymore got together. I had the bum song downloaded on Limewire so I could listen to it all the time.
And ya know what, I rewatched this movie last night and still laughed a ton. It’s just so dumb but through Green’s weird eyes it is so early 2000s in how it’s about not wanting to conform. This movie is obsessed with the idea of a “normal job” from his father obsessing over him getting a job to the brother feeling righteous about his boring ass job. It’s all over this movie that normal, boring expectations put on Gord make him feel like a loser because he doesn’t value them. But once he finds a hot girlfriend and a job, both that are a little outside of the norm, he’s able to do what the animator at the beginning tells him to do and that’s understand the characters behind his drawings.
That said, it’s also a movie where he dances around in deer guts, puts his mouth on a cow teet, jerks off a horse, and does any number of wild and disgusting things. It’s no surprise people hate this and maybe in a way it both started to kill the theatrical comedy and also helped evolve alt comedy which would basically take over television in the coming years.
I also think the funniest thing about this movie is that Rip Torn is in it and swinging for the fences just as hard as Green.
After I watched this last night I texted my old high school buddy, “I SAY GENEVA AND YOU HEAR HELSINKI!?” and he still knew exactly what I was quoting all these years later. 7/10
I watched this movie for the first time today and man, what a fucking bizarre experience.
– At the beginning, they use a shot of Tom Green skateboarding in the mall thrice for some reason.
– Speaking of, it seems like everyone just repeats the same dialogue. How many times does it have to be said that he wants to make his dad proud?
– As Tom drives, he stops by a stud farm and happily grabs a horse’s dick, while yelling “I’m a farmer, daddy!” This lasts 30 seconds and has zero importance on the plot. Something similar happens 10 minutes later, when he stops just to watch two horses fucking.
– At a cheese sandwich factory, Tom grabs a sausage and yells “I’m sexy! I’m a sexy boy! Ding-dong, ding-dong!” None of his co-workers care at all.
– He wants to be an animator, but the CEO of a major animation studio tells him his drawings make no sense and that he must “get into the animals.” So in the very next scene, he finds a ran over deer… and proceeds to gut him and wear his carcass.
– At night, he gets his friend to try a wooden half-pipe he just built. On the first attempt, the friend is gravely injured, with his bone sticking out of his leg. Rip Torn shows up, throws a skateboard at his leg, and Tom licks the friend’s bone because reasons.
– While visiting his friend, he annoys a pregnant woman so much that she goes into labor. He delivers the baby, cuts the umbilical cord with his own mouth, and proceeds to swing the baby, spraying the room with blood.
– Tom dates a nurse, who is in a wheelchair. She gets turned on out of being hit in the shins with a bamboo cane, and also gives him a blowjob even when he has an umbilical cord taped to his stomach.
– Tom takes a bath, wearing scuba gear and pretending that a soap on a rope is a “treasure”. Rip Torn throws the “treasure” in the toilet, and Tom retrieves it with his own mouth.
– Rip Torn hates this nurse, and mocks her condition, saying “You’ve got a problem with your legs. Either that or you’re just lazy.”
– Daddy would you like some sausage?
– On a family therapy sessions, Tom title drops the movie by claiming his father is fingering his brother Freddy (which is false). He then takes a sculpture to smash a window and drops *one single floor* to flee. Freddy is sent to a home for sexually molested children, even though he’s a 25-year-old. He claims it’s not true, but everyone thinks he’s still in denial, as kids watch *The Texas Chain Saw Massacre*.
– Rip Torn at one point says “If this were Pakistan, you would have been sewing soccer balls when you were four years old”. So at the end, Tom pays money to move Rip’s house to Pakistan, where it is destroyed after moving it with a car.
– Just right after that, Rip chases Tom through the desert. The latter finds a tent with an elephant bull, jacks it off and sprays his father with it.
– When they return to America, there’s a person carrying a sign that reads “When the fuck is this movie going to end?”
– The final shot of the movie is a kid (who has been hurt throughout the movie) walking into an airplane’s propeller, spraying everyone around him with blood. But still saying “I’m okay daddy!”
This movie is often in lists for “worst movies of all time” and I get it. It goes out of its way for shock value and grotesque scenarios. Can’t blame someone for not liking it.
But here’s the thing. Compared to other movies in those lists, I think *Freddy* is much more memorable, entertaining and (at times) quite funny for how absurd it is. Movies like *Highlander II*, *Battlefield Earth*, *Pluto Nash*, *Gigli*, etc., are absolutely horrible and a chore to sit through. But I left *Freddy* feeling “huh, that was something else. Not great, but also not complete trash. I certainly don’t regret wasting my time on this.”
Is this a good movie? Is this a bad movie? Does it matter? It is what it is. Whatever the case, Tom Green convinced some Fox executives to give him a $14 million blank check to do anything he wanted, and this is what he chose to make. The movie equivalent of a shitpost. Bizarre, but man, is it something else.
11 year old me never laughed harder.
There’s a laugh track on the DVD that was recorded at the world premiere of the film… and I would argue it actually improves the film.
The molested kids support group where Freddy gets sent to; Their shirts all say “No more pleasure” 😐
The first movie I walked out of. The Mtv show was so funny and the movie was a disaster.
Alright, this one is difficult to explain if you weren’t around at the time….
But just know that it’s the ultimate movie producer move of “I don’t get it, but the kids sure do seem to like the guy: Here’s $15 million to do whatever you want.”
I still sing “daddy would you like some sausage?” randomly to this day.
Is it just a coincidence Tom Green was interviewed on Hockey Night in Canada tonight?
I do miss Rip Torn, was great in those grumpy guy roles.
I’m the backwards man, the backwards man.
I can walk backwards as fast as you can.
Mike Fitzgibbons’ son is a nuclear physicist and my bot CAN EAT A CHICKEN!!!
Freddy would you like some sausages~
I don’t see two LeBarons
every once in a while that skateboard scene pops into my head and still makes me cringe
The commentary he did for it is fantastic
I am glad everyone can see this movie with open eyes & fresh introduction to Tom Green!
Daddy would you like some sausage. Daddy would you like some sausages.
Brian Cox absolutely delivers. The dad in Hot Rod reminds me of him.