Movie 43 is a 2013 American film co-directed and produced by , and written by Rocky Russo and among others. The film features fourteen different storylines, each one by a different director, including , , , , James Duffy, , Patrik Forsberg, , , , Will Graham, and Jonathan van Tulleken. The film was shot over a period of several years, as casting also proved to be a challenge for the producers. Some actors, including , declined to take part, while others, such as , attempted to get out of the project. The film won three awards at the , including. Movie 43 is a series of different sketches containing different scenes and scenarios. After revealing several of the stories in his script, Wessler becomes agitated when Schraeder dismisses his outrageous ideas, and he pulls a gun on him and forces him to listen to multiple other stories before making Schraeder consult his manager, Bob Mone, to purchase the film. Wessler tries to calm Schraeder down with more story ideas to no avail, but Mone pulls out a gun and shoots Schraeder to death. The segment ends with it being revealed that it is being shot by a camera crew as part of the movie, leading into the final segments. Instead of a pitch, the films are connected by a group of three teenagers searching for the most in the world, Movie 43, which will ultimately lead to the destruction of civilization. Calvin Cutler and his friend J. This turns out to be an from Calvin's younger brother Baxter, who cloned YouTube and hyper-inflated the views while working on his science project. They tell Baxter of a film that's so dangerous it will cause the annihilation of the world. The movie is known as Movie 43. Baxter finds hundreds of results for Movie 43 on a website referred to by him as a dark corner of the. They find the sketches starting from the 43rd search on the list of results. As he and J. Vrankovich warns them that if they find Movie 43, civilization will be destroyed. They ignore his claims and keep searching. They eventually find the real, the one and only Movie 43, which turns out to be from the future. It shows Baxter as a profane commando who leads a group of recruits to survive after the world has ended. As Calvin finishes ruining Baxter's laptop, their mother enters, wearing the same shirt and shorts that the woman in the strip tease video wore, causing Calvin to have a mental breakdown after realizing that he had masturbated to a video of his mother. Afterward, a deadly rumbles and mankind is lost. However, a few years later the only survivor, a crippled Calvin, finds Baxter's laptop still working despite viral infections. He watches the last remaining skits on the laptop. This version of the film was released in the U. Cutler Segments This article's plot summary may be. Please by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. When the two arrive together at a restaurant, Beth is shocked when he removes his scarf, revealing a pair of dangling from his neck. Over dinner it confuses her that Davis fails to acknowledge his anatomical abnormality, and that nobody seems to be surprised by it. When two friends of Davis come by, one of them convinces him to give Beth a kiss. Davis agrees, but when he kisses her, his neck-testicles are dangling near Beth's mouth, causing her to scream and budge out of the kiss. The neighbors, Robert and Samantha have a teenage son, Kevin, whom they have home-schooled. Sean and Clare begin inquiring about the homeschooling, and the numerous manners in which Robert and Samantha have replicated a full high school experience within their home, going as far as hazing, bullying, and giving out detentions, are revealed. Visibly disturbed, the neighbors end up meeting Kevin, who says he is going out and gives them the impression that all is fine: until he reveals a doll made of a mop with Samantha's face on it, referring to the doll as his girlfriend. When he attempts to propose to her, she reveals to him that she is a , and asks him to defecate on her in the bedroom. Urged by his best friend Larry and others to go along with it, he eats a large meal and drinks a bottle of laxative prior to the event. Wanting foreplay, Julie is angered when Doug wants to finish, and she runs into the street. Chasing after her, he is then hit by a car and graphically evacuates his bowels everywhere. His ex-girlfriend Veronica comes through his line and the two begin arguing, which soon turns into sexual discussion and flirtation as they lament over their relationship; unbeknownst to them, Neil's intercom microphone broadcasts the entire explicit conversation throughout the store, where various elderly people and vagrants tune in. After she leaves in tears, the customers agree to cover his shift while he goes after her. The boss listens to his various workers argue over the placement of a fan that was built into the genital region of the iBabe, which is dismembering the penises of teenage boys who attempt to have sex with them. The board members then agree to strongly emphasize the dangers of the product via its new commercials. When they begin to kiss, his older brother Mikey enters the living room and makes fun of them. Amanda then discovers she is and tries to hide it, and when Nathan sees blood on her pants, he panics and believes her to be bleeding to death, causing a debacle, which would later have Nathan and Mikey's father Steve and Amanda's father involved. Amanda calls them out on their stupidity and feels embarrassed to know that she's getting her first period in front of them and they don't know what to do about it. When she leaves with her father, Nathan yells that the process of keeping the lining of her internal organs intact by inserting his erect phallus into her vagina is much too complicated and Mikey agrees. Steve cheers them up by farting in front of them. As Mikey goes to the bathroom, Nathan and Steve watch a game on television, which has a very graphic commercial in which a girl gets eaten by a shark due to her menstruating. As the women submerge into the water, a great shark suddenly appears and eats one of the women. After tying the leprechaun up in the basement, they demand he give them a pot of gold. The obscene leprechaun threatens that his brother is coming to save him. When he arrives, Brian and Pete are shot at but ultimately kill both leprechauns. At the end of the segment, Pete reveals he has also caught a who performs for gold coins. Tired of typical first dates, Emily challenges Donald to a game of truth or dare. She dares him to grab a man's buttocks, and he follows with daring her to blow out the birthday candles on a blind boy's cake. The game rapidly escalates to extremes, in which both of them get plastic surgery and tattoos, and humiliate themselves. When Donald and Emily arrive back at Emily's apartment, they praise their date. Donald tries to kiss her, but she rejects him, claiming she's not attracted to Asian men which he was surgically altered to resemble. It is revealed that she was joking and invites him to have sex with her as she shows him her enlarged breasts. Worried about losing the game, the timid players are lectured by the coach about their superiority in the sport over their white counterparts, which he expresses vulgarly. When the game ensues, the all-white team loses miserably yet rejoices in a single point they earn. Beezel seems to detest Amy and anyone who comes between him and Anson, but Anson only sees Beezel as innocent. One day, Amy witnesses Beezel masturbating to summer vacation photos of Anson in a swimsuit. Beezel attacks her and violently urinates on her. Anson still finds his pet innocent but Amy threatens to leave if he doesn't get rid of Beezel. Caring more about his relationship, Anson agrees to find a new home for him. That night, from a closet, Beezel tearfully watches the couple make love whilst himself with a hairbrush and a stuffed teddy bear. The next day when it comes time to take Beezel away, he is nowhere to be found. Amy goes outside to look. Beezel then runs her over with a truck and attempts to shoot her to death with a shotgun, but she chases him into the street and begins beating him with a shovel, which is witnessed by a group of children attending a birthday party at a neighboring house. When Anson approaches to see what is happening, Amy tries to explain Beezel's motives. Beezel acts innocent and Anson sides with his cat. The children of the party then attack and murder Amy for beating up Beezel, stabbing her with plastic forks. Anson grabs Beezel, as Beezel again fantasizes about his owner. The scene was included as an extra on the DVD and Blu-ray release. One night, a body he's having sex with is brought back to life from the pressure of his thrusts. His supervisor Bob suddenly walks in and mistakenly believes that Wayne has performed a life-saving operation of some kind. The staff at the hospital and the media congratulate him while a news reporter asks what he did to save her. Unable to conjure an answer, one of the cops on scene tells everyone else they can just watch the security tapes to find out. Unlike Find Our Daughter, this segment was not included in the DVD or Blu-ray release and instead premiered at the 2014 LA Comedy Festival. And we just wanted to do that kind of short and go much further than that. Wessler then recruited three pairs of directors— and , Peter and Bobby Farrelly, and and —to sign on to write and direct one-third of the project each. He then began working out a deal with a studio for the project, but the project did not stick. In 2009, Peter Farrelly and producer John Penotti took their pitch—along with about 60 scripts for the vignettes—to. At that meeting, Wessler, Penotti, and Farrelly presented one short that they already had shot, starring Kate Winslet as a woman going on a blind date with a seemingly successful and handsome Hugh Jackman. They would shoot for a week, and shut down for several months. Same thing with the directors. It was the type of movie you could come back to. The film ended up with thirteen directors and nineteen writers tied to it, each one co-writing and directing different segments of the sixteen different storylines. Farrelly directed the parts of the movie with Halle Berry and Kate Winslet. Casting and filming Wessler spent years recruiting actors for the film. Many turned down the project. And if they didn't say yes, this movie wouldn't have gotten made. He met the star at a wedding and then called him some time later and pitched him the short. Jackman read the script and agreed to be a part of the film. Because you could be made a fool of, or you could look silly, and there will be people who say, 'That's crazy; he should never have done it. The Winslet-Jackman sketch was shot shortly after, and became the reel to attract other A-list stars. Long, Hodgman's co-star in the long-running series of 's commercials, asked him what the project was, and he then signed on, without still knowing too much. Do you want to dress up as the Penguin? Without even realizing cameras would be involved, or that it would be a movie. Others were not so affable. In fact, some stars hedged: , a friend of Wessler's, said yes—but also said he would not be available for more than a year. So Wessler waited him out, convinced his sketch was good. Gere eventually called Wessler and told him he was free to shoot, on just a couple of conditions: they had to do it in four days, and they needed to relocate the shoot from to. The strategy was simple: 'Wait for them. Shoot when they want to shoot. Guilt them to death. Producer Penotti said that the sketches would be seen on the DVD and Blu-ray Disc releases of the film, however only the latter was included in the release. Because the filmmakers worked around the stars' schedules, the filming of the whole movie took several years. While so many A-list actors were on board, most were not completely aware of what other sketches would be included in the film, which features thirteen vignettes tied together by a story of a mad screenwriter Quaid pitching ideas to a movie producer Kinnear. Penotti said many of the actors did not ask many questions about what else was going on in the film. The title of the film, Movie 43—first believed to be referencing the number of actors in the film— has no meaning. Relativity did little to promote the film and none of the cast members did any promotion of the film. The film was not screened for critics in advance. Advertising also took place on the adult website. Some critics considered it to be. It's death-of-laughter by committee. Because it's like one of those many asteroids out there—a dismal chunk of rock hurtling through an empty void, without purpose. It would go on to tie with for worst movie of 2013. Peter Howell of the gave the film zero out of four stars and called it the worst film he had ever seen. Right now, I can't think of one worse than Movie 43. Relativity stated that they had already covered all costs with international pre-sales deals and a deal with. Retrieved January 5, 2014. Retrieved August 13, 2014. Retrieved January 26, 2013. Retrieved March 1, 2014. Retrieved January 31, 2013. Retrieved July 30, 2017. Retrieved July 30, 2017. Retrieved July 30, 2017. Retrieved July 30, 2017. Retrieved July 30, 2017. Retrieved February 2, 2013. Retrieved December 28, 2012. Retrieved December 28, 2012. Retrieved February 2, 2013. Retrieved February 27, 2018. Retrieved October 3, 2012. Retrieved February 14, 2016. Retrieved May 29, 2013. Retrieved July 30, 2017. Retrieved July 30, 2017. Retrieved 29 January 2013. Retrieved January 26, 2013. The New York Daily News. Retrieved May 29, 2013. Retrieved May 29, 2013. 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