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Michael Addis is a television and film director specializing in single camera comedy and reality.
Addis' debut feature, Poor White Trash (starring Jaime Pressly and Sean Young) was an underground hit in 2000 that ended up making three times its budget. He MAY have been hired to do a follow up $3 mil feature comedy, Double Wide, originally planned to be released in 2009.
His feature documentary Heckler premiered at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival (garnering a two-page NY Times spread) and will have its West Coast premiere at the AFI Film Festival in November 2007.
Michael is also the Executive Producer of the BET hit comedy series, Hell Date. He has produced and directed on The Showbiz Show with David Spade, as well as Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, The Swan, Minding the Store and The New Tom Green Show. Addis has also written for The Man Show and The Skateboard Show. He produced and directed the stand-up special Jamie Kennedy: Unwashed, which he sold to Comedy Central. He also worked as a director on "Lewis Black's Root of All Evil" premiering in March 2008 on Comedy Central.
Michael is a member of the DGA and is represented by Protocol Entertainment in Beverly Hills.
HECKLER was released on September 9, 2008
Addis' debut feature, Poor White Trash (starring Jaime Pressly and Sean Young) was an underground hit in 2000 that ended up making three times its budget. He MAY have been hired to do a follow up $3 mil feature comedy, Double Wide, originally planned to be released in 2009.
His feature documentary Heckler premiered at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival (garnering a two-page NY Times spread) and will have its West Coast premiere at the AFI Film Festival in November 2007.
Michael is also the Executive Producer of the BET hit comedy series, Hell Date. He has produced and directed on The Showbiz Show with David Spade, as well as Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, The Swan, Minding the Store and The New Tom Green Show. Addis has also written for The Man Show and The Skateboard Show. He produced and directed the stand-up special Jamie Kennedy: Unwashed, which he sold to Comedy Central. He also worked as a director on "Lewis Black's Root of All Evil" premiering in March 2008 on Comedy Central.
Michael is a member of the DGA and is represented by Protocol Entertainment in Beverly Hills.
HECKLER was released on September 9, 2008
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Poor White Trash (2000)
, 1h29Directed by Michael Addis
Genres Comedy, Action, Crime
Actors Sean Young, Tony Denman, Patrick Renna, Jacob Tierney, William Devane, Jaime Pressly
Rating49%
Mike Bronco believes a degree from Southern Illinois University Carbondale is a ticket out of life in a trailer park. He is determined to rise above his humble southern Illinois roots and broken home to become a clinical family therapist. His best friend Lynard "Lennie" Lake, has a simpler vision for the future. He is a firecracker enthusiast whose notion of the American dream is trucking school.
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Poor White Trash (2000)
, 1h29Directed by Michael Addis
Genres Comedy, Action, Crime
Actors Sean Young, Tony Denman, Patrick Renna, Jacob Tierney, William Devane, Jaime Pressly
Roles Story
Rating49%
Mike Bronco believes a degree from Southern Illinois University Carbondale is a ticket out of life in a trailer park. He is determined to rise above his humble southern Illinois roots and broken home to become a clinical family therapist. His best friend Lynard "Lennie" Lake, has a simpler vision for the future. He is a firecracker enthusiast whose notion of the American dream is trucking school.
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Killer Flick (1998)
, 1h33Origin USA
Themes Transport films, Road movies
Actors Virgil Frye
Rating58%
The film centers on four aspiring filmmakers, Rome, Buzz, Max, and One-Eye (Tod Thawley, Creighton Howard, Emmett Grennan, and Christian Leffler), who go on a surreal rampage and make their exploits into a movie. While evading law enforcement, the filmmakers discuss their plans on how to make their movie as violent and sexy as possible so that they can sell it for a lot of money.