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lengths would you go to if your best friend thought he was in love with a
girl who was totally wrong for him?Saving Silverman stars Jason Biggs (American Pie, Loser) as Darren Silverman, one of three friends who've been exceptionally close since childhood. When Darren falls for snobbish Judith (Amanda Peet), she takes an instant dislike to his buddies and decides to find him new friends to hang out with. Judith boasts: "Darren's my puppet and I'm his puppet master." When she convinces Darren to marry her, his old friends decide things have gone too far. They take drastic actions to get their pal back by kidnapping Judith, faking her death, and plotting to get Darren's high school sweetheart, Sandy, back into his life. Naturally, their antics land them in plenty of hot water when Judith proves to be a less than cooperative victim. Incredibly, Neil Diamond, who has steadfastly refused all movie offers over the last 20 years, finally broke his resolution by agreeing to appear in this film. "After The Jazz Singer, I |
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realized acting wasn't something I wanted to
do, but the Saving Silverman team convinced me to read the script.
So I did, and laughed until the end. It was just too funny not to be a
part of," Diamond reveals. His inclusion in the film can be attributed largely to director Dennis Dugan (Big Daddy). A huge fan of the singer, Dugan admits he invented the whole premise involving Diamond. "I not only chose Neil Diamond for the film - I created the role. There wasn't a rocker in the original script. The writers and I added Neil's whole storyline." In the film, Darren and his buddies are such big Neil Diamond fans that they form a tribute band and perform his music. Saving Silverman is the second screenplay by co-writers Hank Nelken and Greg DePaul, who penned 1999's Totally Irresponsible. They came up with the idea at a friend's engagement party, when they realized he was going to marry the wrong  woman.
Dugan says, "It's as nuts and twisted as you can get," but he
also believes in the message the movie delivers."The movie orbits around the idea that there's a 'one and only someone' for everyone out there, somewhere. I completely believe that theory. The exact second that I first saw my wife, I knew that I had found my one and only." - Alexandra Heilbron |