Product Details

• Actors: Steve Antin, Katherine Helmond, Patricia Arquette, Sandra Bernhard, Sofia Coppola
• Directors: Jefery Levy
• Writers: Steve Antin, John Boskovich
• Producers: Jefery Levy, Chuck Grieve, Greta von Steinbauer, Kristi Frankenheimer, Lee West
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Prism Home Entertain
• VHS Release Date: March 2, 1994
• Run Time: 93 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6303005144
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #456,720 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Reality Bites for [..] Gen Xers, February 2, 2007

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hewasacloud "hewasacloud" (Gloucester, MA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Inside Monkey Zetterland (DVD)

Thrilled that this is finally on DVD. An adorable, funny, absurd, self conscious mish mash with an amazing cast. Sandra Bernhard is divine as Imogene. For gay men who have been immersed and insulated by their friends and family's lives, this movie is a wonderful gift. I've worn out my VHS, and can't wait to own it in widescreen.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Weird name, weirder movie, great cast, January 12, 2009

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Richard Ross - See all my reviews

This review is from: Inside Monkey Zetterland (DVD)

Monkey Zetterland (Steve Antin) is a screenwriter with a crazy family. His mom (Katherine Helmond) is a soap star with hemorrhoids, his sister Grace (Patricia Arquette) is a lesbian whose partner (Sofia Coppola) is pregnant, his brother Brent (Tate Donovan) is a self absorbed hair stylist, and his father (Bo Hopkins) is an absentee oddball who shows up unexpectedly sporting a pet parrot on his shoulder. This doesn't even count the women in Monkey's life : his mean girlfriend (Debi Mazar) who dumps him, his stalker Imogene (Sandra Bernhard), and his mom's stalker (Ricki Lake) who tries to get to her through him. Finally there is the terrorist couple (Rupert Everett and Martha Plimpton) that just moved into Monkey's building. Obviously there's far too much going on in this movie. It isn't good by any means but it's occasionally fun to watch thanks to the cast. The plot, about Monkey trying to sell a screenplay about the L.A. boxcar system of the 30's, makes no sense. The humor, like the acting, is a little over the top. With that being said, the actors do wonders with their limited screen time. Coppola was the lure for me and I am pleased to say she looks beautiful and her acting has improved since 'Godfather 3'. She's kinda touching as the conflicted, pregnant lesbian. Antin was good in eighties movies, but here he is dreadful, like his script. Plimpton and Everett are the wild cards of the movie as married terrorists who hate each other. Donovan has a lot of fun as the vain hair stylist and we never get to know Lake's character enough to care about her. I could have done without Helmond, Hopkins, and especially Bernhard. The sound on the DVD is horrible and most of the dialogue is unintelligible (this might be a good thing). Make no mistake, this is not a good movie to recommend, but the awesome cast is a lot of fun.

1.0 out of 5 stars Another zany, cute, quirky indie film with lovably kooky characters (yawn), December 27, 2011

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Shemp-Masta-Flash "i'm neither here nor there" (Chicago USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Inside Monkey Zetterland (DVD)

I can almost imagine someone pitching this idea for a "movie" to a studio or producer: "Hey, let's get some attractive young B- and C-list actors (and a couple of over-the-hill types) and they're all lovably zany, kooky and quirky oddball characters, and at the center is an intelligent but naturally underachieving slacker that's creative, and we'll throw them all together (at, say, a holiday dinner) and they'll project their oddball-quirky characterizations at each other for, say, 90 minutes. We'll FILM it and have a movie. Plot? Who needs one! Realistic characters? No one wants to see realistic characters, just as long as we give them 'indie movie'-type quirks! Just like in the Tarantino knockoff 'Killing Zoe,' the ruthless leader of a gang of thieves is also a jazz trombone player! Or in 'indie crime' films where the mob boss is a handsome, erudite, well-dressed fellow that reads Kant and Kafka and talks like Gore Vidal, as most real-life mob bosses do. It'll be great!"

If your idea of WITTY DIALOGUE is a stereotypical cranky old lady saying: "Who ever heard of a Jew celebrating Thanksgiving!" [yuk yuk] or Martha Plimpton saying with all the earnestness of a 6th-grader: "Well, well, well, what do we have here?" -- well then, you're in luck - "IMZ" is the movie for you. I think it's garbage, the kind of crap that gives indie films a bad name.