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1995 | Tom
1995 | Tom
Competition | 1995 | Tom
1995 | Tom
Best Foreign Actor Mejor Actor Extranjero For | 1997 | Steve
Best Foreign Actor (Mejor Actor Extranjero) | 1997 | Steve
Dramatic | 1995 | Tom
Best Actor | 2016 | Steve
Best Foreign Film | 1996
Best Film | 1995 | Tom
1995
Budget 500,000 USD
Box Office Collection 1,148,752 USD
Director Tom DiCillo didn't want to beg people for money to make this film, so he asked his actors if they would work for free. All of them agreed and most of them even put up money themselves. Eventually anybody who contributed a few dollars got a part in the movie.
This was the first credited film role for Peter Dinklage who had previously avoided the traditional elf and leprechaun type of role offered to actors with dwarfism. In Living in Oblivion he plays Tito, a frustrated dwarf actor who complains about his clichéd roles.
Shot in 16 days.
The recurring theme of the film is dream sequences. The lead character's last name "Reve" means "dream" in French.
The idea that writer/director Tom DiCillo modeled the buffoonish Chad Palomino character on Brad Pitt after working with Pitt on Johnny Suede (1991) is a myth. Pitt himself was slated to appear as the Palomino character, until a scheduling conflict with Legends of the Fall (1994) forced him to drop out and be replaced by James Le Gros. Apparently, LeGros *was* mocking a self-absorbed Hollywood star, but it wasn't Pitt. DiCillo said that while he can't name any names, LeGros confided that he had lifted all of the Palomino character's mannerisms from a star with whom he had just finished working.
"[Little person Tito is not happy with the dream sequence] Tito: Why does my character have to be a dwarf? Nick: He doesn't have to be. Tito: Then why is he? Is that the only way you can make this a dream, to put a dwarf in it? Nick: No, Tito, I... Tito: Have you ever had a dream with a dwarf in it? Do you know anyone who's had a dream with a dwarf in it? No! I don't even have dreams with dwarves in them. The only place I've seen dwarves in dreams is in stupid movies like this! "Oh make it weird, put a dwarf in it!". Everyone will go "Woah, this must be a fuckin' dream, there's a fuckin' dwarf in it!". Well I'm sick of it! You can take this dream sequence and stick it up your ass!"
"Chad: What did you call me? Nick: You heard me. I called you a "Hostess Twinkie motherfucker," motherfucker!"
