I'm Still Here

Year:

2010

Duration:

108 min

Genres:

Comedy | Drama | Music

IMDB rate:

6.2

Director:

Casey Affleck

Awards:

1 win & 2 nominations

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 2010-09-16

Filming Locations: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

Earnings

Opening Weekend: $96,658 (USA) (12 September 2010)

Gross: $408,719 (USA) (31 October 2010)

Cast

Actor

Character

Billy Crystal

I'm Still Here

Kelly Ripa

Joaquin Phoenix

Antony Langdon

Anton

Carey Perloff

Play Director

Larry McHale

Casey Affleck

Jack Nicholson

Danny Glover

Bruce Willis

Robin Wright

Johnny Moreno

Victor - Danny DeVito's stand-in (as Johnny Marino)

Danny DeVito

Jerry Penacoli

Jerry

Susan Patricola

Susan

Patrick Whitesell

Patrick

Nicole Acacio

Nicole

Matthew Maher

Matt

Amanda Demme

Amanda

Josie

Carline

Capricorn Clark

Mos Def

Christine Spines

Christine

David Grutman

Sean Combs

Jamie Foxx

Ben Stiller

Norm Block

Norm

Mike Snedegar

Lavo Event Host

Edward James Olmos

David Letterman

Natalie Portman

Eddie Rouse

Miami Heckler

Jamison Reeves

Miami Heckler

Elliot Gaynon

Hollywood Eddie

Tim Affleck

Joaquin's Father

Hugh Grant

Peter Coffin

Announcer /

Nathan Lane

Jay Leno

Jay Leno (uncredited)

Conan O'Brien

Barack Obama

Obama

Ashley Olsen

Ashley Olsen (uncredited)

Sean Penn

Sean Penn (uncredited)

Regis Philbin

Regis Philbin (uncredited)

Cenk Uygur

Cenk (archive footage) (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

The sixth film featuring both Jack Nicholson and Danny DeVito.

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The first hint that Joaquin Phoenix was going to pull a stunt like this came in October 2008 when he announced his retirement on the red carpet of his film Two Lovers (2008) which he then proclaimed to be his final performance. (Ironically, Phoenix got some of the best reviews of his career for his performance in the film.)

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Some of the soundbites from entertainment journalists are made up.

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Goofs

When Phoenix first meets Diddy in the hotel, he knocks on the door on the right side of the hall, then the camera switches and Diddy is opening the door on the left side of the hall. It can't just be a change in camera angle since the door is the last one on the hall.

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Quotes

Joaquin Phoenix: Do the snow angel, dude. I can reach you, do the fucking snow angel. Dude, do the fucking snow angel. Do the snow angel, man. Do the fucking snow angel, dude. Do the fucking snow angel!

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Joaquin Phoenix: Did someone just human shit on me?

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Edward James Olmos: That's you, drops of water and you're on top of the mountain of success. But one day you start sliding down the mountain and you think wait a minute; I'm a mountain top water drop. I don't belong in this valley, this river, this low dark ocean with all these drops of water. Then one day it gets hot and you slowly evaporate into air, way up, higher than any mountain top, all the way to the heavens. Then you understand that it was at your lowest that you were closest to God. Life's a journey that goes round and round and the end is closest to the beginning. So if it's change you need, relish the journey.

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Faq

Q

Where can I view the David Letterman interview?

A

The full interview can be seen here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBoGNBSLYRY

Q

Which people were in on the hoax?

A

According to Phoenix and various other reports, at least Ben Stiller, P Diddy, Natalie Portman, Edward James Olmos and David Letterman were all "in" on the joke from the very beginning.

Q

Is this a real documentary?

A

In an interview with the New York Times on September 16, 2010 (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/17/movies/17affleck.html?_r=1), Casey Affleck admitted that the film was fake:"It's a terrific performance, it's the performance of his career," Mr. Affleck said.[...]Virtually none of it was real. Not even the opening shots, supposedly of Mr. Phoenix and his siblings swimming in a water hole in Panama. That, Mr. Affleck said, was actually shot in Hawaii with actors, then run back and forth on top of an old videocassette recording of "Paris, Texas" to degrade the images.[...]"There were multiple takes, these are performances," Mr. Affleck said of unsettling sequences in which Mr. Phoenix appears to snort drugs, consort with hookers, and hunt to the ground an assistant who has betrayed him to the press -- again, mostly actors.

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