High Strung

[1994, Movie]

High Strung: Review

This slapdash farce, intended as a showcase for stand-up comic Steve Oedekerk, was misleadingly marketed as a Jim Carrey vehicle. HIGH STRUNG amounts to a live-in-concert film morphed into a plot, of sorts. The scene is the apartment of manic children's book author Thane Furrows, pressured by a looming deadline for Shangri-La books (publisher of "Happy the Clam"). Unable to face such work, Furrows raves like a guy on Open Mike Night about everything that annoys or confoun... read more