Overnight Delivery

Overnight Delivery
Directed by	Jason Bloom
Produced by	Dan Etheridge Brad Krevoy Steven Stabler
Written by	Steven Bloom Marc Sedaka
Starring	Paul Rudd Christine Taylor Reese Witherspoon
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date(s)	April 7, 1998
Running time	87 minutes
Language	English

Overnight Delivery is a 1998 romantic comedy film directed by Jason Bloom and was rated PG13 by the MPAA.

Plot

The main character Wyatt Trips, played by Paul Rudd, is a college student at Twin Cities College. He believes that his long-distance girlfriend, Kimberly Jasney, played by Christine Taylor, is not being faithful to him. As a result of this he goes to a strip club where he gets intoxicated and decides to send a letter to his girlfriend. With the letter he includes a picture of himself and a topless stripper. Rudd soon discovers that his girlfriend, in fact was not cheating on him and he has twenty-four hours to retrieve the package before it gets to his girlfriend. Rudd and the stripper, played by Reese Witherspoon go on a road trip in hopes of getting the package back but encounter many obstacles along the way including a psychotic deliveryman.

Cast

• Paul Rudd as Wyatt Trips
• Christine Taylor as Kimberly Jasney
• Reese Witherspoon as Ivy Miller
• Larry Drake as Hal Ipswich
• Sarah Silverman as Turran
• Stephen Yoakam as the SWAT Leader
• Tobin Bell as John Dwayne Beezly/Killer Beez
• Buff Sedlackek as the teacher
• Richard Cody as the rancher
• Tim Mcniff as the TV anchor

Production

Writing

The film was written by Marc Sedaka, Steven Bloom. Kevin Smith did unaccredited work on the film including an early draft of the script. Where he then decided to have his name removed from the final product. The film was directed by Jason Bloom; this was his second film, his first being Biodome. The producers include Roger Birbaum and Bradley Tenkel and the production companies are MPCA and Caravan Pictures. The film cost a total of ten million dollars to produce and an extra 10 million for advertising. The film lasts approximately 87 minutes. ^[1]

Locations

The entire film was shot in the Twin cites of Minnesota. Exterior scenes were filmed in Minneapolis, Saint Paul and rural Minnesota. The film included landmarks such as Ground Zero nightclub used as the “strip club”, Minneapolis convention center as the “Air port”, and University of St. Thomas as Tennessee College.

In the scene when Ivy drove Paul Rudd's character Trips to the airport, the building in which he was dropped off at is actually the Minneapolis Convention Center and not Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport.

Casting

Joey Lauren Adams was originally going to skip out on her part in Chasing Amy to play Ivy in this movie, but she lost the part to Reese Witherspoon. Kevin Smith, Adams' boyfriend at the time, has a documented grudge against Witherspoon and cited a rumored incident during the movie shoot.^[2]

Reception

Rotten Tomatoes give this movie 43%, with an average of 4.9 out of 10, which is considered a rotten review. ^[3]

Justine Neal from Star Tribune has the same negative views towards this movie. In what should have been a good film produced in Minnesota Neal says, “Overnight delivery gets lost in a unworthy script.” He states that all the right elements were present and puts blame on bad writing and inexperienced production. When talking about the potentially rising stars at the time Rudd and Witherspoon he says, “Unfortunately, they’re not yet strong enough in overnight delivery (two stars out of five stars) to overcome predictable unimaginative writing.” ^[4]

Rebecca Murray writing for About.com disagrees and gives Overnight Delivery a decent review. Stating the movie did not receive the attention it deserved by going straight to video, and it should have been given a better shot. “I actually laughed out loud at parts of overnight delivery and wish it had been given a better shot at theatrical run.” ^[5]

Trivia

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According to reports, the original cut ran about three hours long.^{[citation needed]}

References

External links

• Overnight Delivery at the Internet Movie Database
• Overnight Delivery at Rotten Tomatoes
• Overnight Delivery at Allmovie

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