Cause for Concern (2002) (V)

Director:

Ryen McPherson

Genre:

Reality-TV

Plot Keywords:

Violence | Alcoholic | Exploitation | Controversial | Handheld Camera

Cast

Donald Brennan	...	Himself
Donny	...	Himself
Rufus Hannah	...	Himself
Peter LaForte	...	Himself
Todd Richard Lewis	...	The Bumhunter

Directed by
Ryen McPherson

Produced by
Ty Beeson	....	producer
Ray Leticia	....	producer

Production Companies

• Indecline Productions

Distributors

• Fallms Filmes (2005) (Brazil) (DVD)

Also Known As:

"Bumfights: Cause for Concern" - USA (DVD box title)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Canada:18A (Manitoba) | Canada:(Banned) (Quebec) | Canada:R (Ontario) | Canada:R (Nova Scotia) | New Zealand:(Banned) | UK:(Banned)

Filming Locations:

La Mesa, California, USA

Company:

Indecline Productions

Trivia:

Refused classification in Quebec by the Régie du Cinéma. A demand by the Canadian distributors, VVS Films, to review the decision was rejected.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Veronica Mars: Return of the Kane (#1.6)" (2004)

Something of a misrepresentation

All right, I'll review this thing. I'm up to it. And I'll put the bottom line at the top: don't waste your money. Check it out as a curiosity if it's free but don't spend your coin.

The vast majority of the fights in the uh, film, don't involve bums, but rather teenage yahoos that have been watching too much "Jackass". Bad news that most of them appear to survive, which means that they will almost certainly reproduce. Watching fights on TV between people I don't know and who don't appear to be battling for any moral principle - real or percieved - isn't as compelling as you might think. I think the WWF realizes that, which is why they brew up a story to which the "fight" is the last act. Not so here. The fight is the whole entire play, and it's an unsatisfying one-act.

"Supermodel" Angela Taylor is there. Not much else to say about her.

The "Bumhunter" segments sound hilarious when you hear about them, but the don't live up to an actual viewing. It's not that the guy playing the Bumhunter isn't funny - he is - but most of the bums are just tired and seem content to wait for this weirdo to bug off once he's had his fun. Not that they have any real choice in the matter in some cases...

Best part are some of the pranks and stunts. I admit I laughed quite a few times at the (attempted) destruction of property and other idiocy. I don't know, there's just something about a guy pummelling a drive thru menu/intercom that I find amusing, probably because I've wanted to do it a few times myself.

This video might be worth an hour of your time, but as I said, borrow a friend's.