Vashirdfel Simply A Masterpiece

Raetsonwe Redundant and unnecessary.

Limerculer A waste of 90 minutes of my life

Gary The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

wandereramor Some of the best documentaries are made almost by chance, where a bunch of unwary filmmakers stumble across a fantastic narrative unfolding. Overnight falls into this camp. Most likely when they started filming Montana and Smith weren't planning on anything but a glowing biopic on their friend's rise to fame, hopefully elevating them along with it.What they got instead was a compelling film about a man who was handed his dream and lost it because of ego and hubris. There are times when Overnight is just uncomfortable to watch, as Troy Duffy alienates everyone around him and becomes more and more reliant on his vastly overrated sense of his own talent. At first he's almost sympathetic, being screwed over by the Hollywood system, but this only seems to aggravate his bitterness and aggression.Stylistically speaking Overnight isn't the best movie: Duffy's descent perhaps starts too soon, leaving us to spend most of the film in the valley of desperation, and at times it can get hard to tell all of the badly-dressed white guys apart. But it's a compelling narrative despite everything else, and the perfect film to watch if you want to see an almost Shakesperean self-destruction.

Jim Powell Like my mama always said, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Also, the things you don't like about people are probably the things you don't like about yourself.As I watched this movie, all I could think about was how much Troy talked "I, I, I, me, me, me, I, me, I, me" to this and that. Seems to think there's nothing wrong with him and that all the problems were someone else. Funny, seems to me his problems are all him. Not because of him, just simply him.Hollywood is a business. It's about making money. He was given quite an opportunity and his inability to understand how to operate in the business was his own fault. Hollywood is for adults, and Troy did nothing but act like a child. He bit back to those trying to help him before he even had any clout in the business (either music or movie).Dreams die hard. No doubt about it. His drunk, smoking, cursing self got exactly what he brought upon himself.And just a question, why is everyone he doesn't like a "co^&sucker" when he ends up living in the gayest neighborhood in LA? It's obvious this guy was out of his league and has issues. It's also obvious he wanted to be Harvey but doesn't have the finesse, maturity, or business acumen required. He acted like a child in a very adult world.Like my mama also said, the bigger they are (or try to make you think they are) the harder they fall.

jonathan-577 I was so looking forward to watching the documentary self-immolation of the mastermind behind Boondock Saints, one of the most aggravating and pointless movies I've ever seen. But the makers of "Overnight" - buddies (ex?) of the mastermind in question - also need to learn how to make a movie. Various unsavoury remarks, yelling obscenities into the phone, and enjoying his alcohol do indeed make Mr. Duffy look like a putz. But it doesn't shed any insight into why the guy got a contract in the first place, what his creative process or vision is - what's Boondock Saints even about? How hard is it to meet Patrick Swayze? What are these strange institutional machinations in which our disgusting heroes are caught? Because the film doesn't try to answer these questions in any coherent way, it doesn't end up having dippity-doo to say about Hollywood either. So who cares?

IslandGirl "Overnight" was the most painful film I've watched. I was given the sense that I was watching something that I wasn't supposed to... From what a got from the "syndicate" that had to be subjected to a personality of delusional dimensions, it was a painful experience for them as well.The "experience" was the Troy hurricane, a firework that goes up with so much fanfare and noise but fades out. Throughout the film, the viewer gets to be seated shotgun next to Troy who is never at a loss of colorful words and opinions that only further damn him as the film develops. This was a film about a man digging his own grave and spitting on everyone that cared to listen. If Troy had a gentle moment, it was edited out. Does he have a gentle side? His burliness is tolerated by his own family and friends (barely). In the thin aired space of intimacy with Troy taking up all the resources and reminding everyone to thank him, I was uncomfortable watching for his inevitable demise. We have the filmmakers to thank for sitting in the hot seat and rolling the cameras.