"The X Files" Hollywood A.D. (2000)

User Rating:

7.4/10   

Director:

David Duchovny

Writers:

Chris Carter (creator)
David Duchovny (written by)

TV Series:

"The X Files" (1993)

Original Air Date:

30 April 2000 (Season 7, Episode 19)

Genre:

Drama | Horror | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Plot:

Skinner's buddy from college, Wayne Federman, trails Mulder and Scully on a case involving a pipe bombing in a church...

Plot Keywords:

Male Female Relationship | FBI | FBI Agent | Alien | X Files

Cast

David Duchovny	...	Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson	...	Dana Scully
Mitch Pileggi	...	Walter Skinner
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Tina M. Ameduri	...	Tina
Bill Dow	...	Chuck Burks
Wayne Federman	...	Himself
André Fortin	...	Zombie Dancer
Steve Kiziak	...	David Duchovny
Téa Leoni	...	Herself (as Tea Leoni)
Paul Lieber	...	Micah Hoffman
Bill Millar	...	Director
Tim Roe	...	Zombie
Garry Shandling	...	Himself
Barry K. Thomas	...	Sugar Bear
Harris Yulin	...	Cardinal O'Fallon

Runtime:

Argentina:60 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Certification:

Argentina:13

Company:

20th Century Fox Television

Trivia:

The "clay pot as recording media" plot device was investigated in "MythBusters" (2003). They determined that it was so highly unlikely as to be impossible.

Goofs:

Crew or equipment visible: Gillian Anderson's stunt double can be seen after Tea Leoni asks 'Scully' to show her how to run with high heels. It's also noticeable how the stunt double starts running before Anderson leaves the frame.

Quotes:

Garry Shandling: Do you dress on the right or the left?
Fox Mulder: Wh... huh... what do you...
Garry Shandling: Look, I play a character, I need to find his rudder, his center...
Fox Mulder: I guess mostly to the left.
Garry Shandling: Mostly?
Fox Mulder: Most of the time.
Garry Shandling: Wardrobe!

Movie Connections:

References Witness (1985)

Plan 9 From Hollywood

When a '60s radical turns up dead in the crypt of a prominent Catholic it looks like a great basis for a movie to Deputy Director Skinner's old college pal, writer/producer Wayne Federman (as himself.) It's inexplicable weirdness on screen and off as Mulder and Scully try to handle Hollywood and a case that involves a Da-Vinci-coded soup bowl and the dancing dead.

I guess it had to happen - the show about show business. And it is just as awful as you might expect, combining both a self-parodical X-File AND a parody of a Hollywood treatment of the X-Files! Where does this leave viewers? Near the bottom of the unbrakeable slide in quality that is season 7. Once we were on a search for answers, then we were on a search for questions. Now we're just looking for laughs.

In the finale scene, keep your eye peeled for the Chris Carter zombie - the one with tongue THROUGH cheek and skewered in place with a blue pencil. Oh wait, that's not visible on-screen...