10 Facts About Movie 43

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Movie 43 is a 2013 American anthology comedy film co-directed and produced by Peter Farrelly, and written by Rocky Russo and Jeremy Sosenko among others.

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Movie 43 is a series of different, interconnected short films and sketches containing different scenes and scenarios about a washed-up producer as he pitches insane story lines featuring some of the biggest stars in Hollywood.

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Movie 43 then began working out a deal with a studio for the project, but the project did not stick.

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Movie 43 then went to multiple other studios, but, according to Wessler, "no one could understand what [he] was trying to do".

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Movie 43 met the star at a wedding and then called him sometime later and pitched him the short.

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6.

Movie 43 was panned by critics, with some considering it to be one of the worst films ever made.

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The site's critics consensus states: "A star-studded turkey, Movie 43 is loaded with gleefully offensive and often scatological gags, but it's largely bereft of laughs.

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Movie 43 wrote that the film has nothing in common with The Groove Tube and The Kentucky Fried Movie, two "very funny and influential" sketch-comedy films.

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Movie 43 additionally criticized Movie 43 for what he calls "female humiliation", saying that although the men are "jerks, idiots, dolts and fools", the women have it even worse.

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Movie 43 was released on DVD and Blu-ray in June 2013 in the UK and US.

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