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The Starving Games (2013) 3.3
In this Hunger Games spoof, Kantmiss Evershot must fight for her life in the 75th annual Starving Games, where she could also win an old ham, a coupon for a foot-long sub, and a partially eaten pickle. |
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Cast
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| Maiara Walsh | ... | ||
| Cody Christian | ... |
Peter Malarkey
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| Brant Daugherty | ... | ||
| Diedrich Bader | ... | ||
| Ross Wyngaarden | ... | ||
| Lauren Bowles | ... | ||
| Dean J. West | ... |
Seleca
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| Theodus Crane | ... |
Cleaver Williams
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| Eryn L. Davis | ... |
Rudy
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Juhahn Jones | ... | |
| Taylor Murphy | ... | ||
| Nick Gomez | ... |
Na'vi Guy
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Set in the most depressing corner of a post-apocalyptic future, our heroine Kantmiss Evershot (Maiara Walsh) volunteers to take her manipulative younger sister's place in the seventy-fifth annual "Starving Games." In doing so, she must leave behind her smoldering just-a-friend Dale (Brant Daugherty) and team up with the geeky baker's son Peter Malarkey (Cody Allen Christian) in a fight for her life. But wait, there's more! She could also win an old ham, a coupon for a foot-long sub at a six-inch price, and a partially eaten pickle! In The Starving Games, Friedberg and Seltzer's sixth cinematic spoof of box-office hits, the prolific parody duo has its sights trained on the adventure blockbuster The Hunger Games! It's all the laughs and half the calories as they sling dozens of cock-eyed, barbed arrows at sci-fi, action and fantasy films from The Avengers and Oz the Great and Powerful to pop culture characters and celebrities like Harry Potter and Taylor Swift. Written by Ketchup Entertainment
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From the guys who cooked up 'Date Movie', 'Meet the Spartans' and 'Vampires Suck' See more »Genres:
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Rated PG-13 for crude and sexual content, comic violence, language and partial nudity | See all certifications »Parents Guide:
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EnglishRelease Date:
31 October 2013 (Argentina) See more »Also Known As:
Los muertos del hambre See more »Filming Locations:
Hammond, Louisiana, USABox Office
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$4,500,000 (estimated)Company Credits
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Peter Malarkey: PETER
[breaking character]
Peter Malarkey: Okay. We're done. We're done with this.
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Written by Ali Theodore, Joseph Katsaros, and Julian Michael Davis
Performed by The DeeKompressors
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Did You Know?
Trivia
The Expendables impersonators who all met on-set, have remained close and have worked on other projects since, calling themselves "The Expandables". See more »Goofs
When Kantmiss is running through the forest after defeating Backpack Girl, a boom mic is clearly visible. See more »Quotes
Voice: [off-camera] Hey, Phil, stay down there. Put your finger in his mouth.Peter Malarkey: PETER
[breaking character]
Peter Malarkey: Okay. We're done. We're done with this.
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Crazy Credits
This motion picture is based, in part, upon actual events, persons and companies. However many of the characters, incidents and companies portrayed and the names used herein are fictitious. Any similarities of those fictitious characters, incidents or companies to the name, attributes or actual background of any actual person, living or dead, or to any actual event, or to any existing company, is entirely coincidental and unintentional. See more »Soundtracks
Rock The HouseWritten by Ali Theodore, Joseph Katsaros, and Julian Michael Davis
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I'm a sucker for spoof movies. And although I am of the opinion that Aaron Seltzer and Jason Friedberg are a pair of talentless hacks, I keep buying their movies on DVD, in the faint hope that one of these days they will produce something half-decent. I decided to give them a fair shot this time around and actually sought out the real thing - "The Hunger Games" before I stuck Friedberg & Seltzer's offering into my DVD player, so at least I would have some idea of what they are trying to spoof.
The result is fairly typical Friedberg & Seltzer fare - grab a bunch of unknown actors who bare a passing similarity to the more talented originals, throw in a bunch of gratuitous pop culture references that are way too late ('Harry Potter', 'Gangnam Style', 'The Expendables', 'Avatar' etc.) and try to tell your story in under 80 minutes, including 20 minutes of bloopers and credits. In that respect, "The Starving Games" doesn't disappoint and nothing in this movie will come as a surprise to those of you who have seen other works by Friedberg & Seltzer.
This is their sixth collaboration as directors (sadly, there are more in the pipeline - next up is a spoof of Fast & Furious) but alas, they are not really getting much better at this sort of thing. The only decent movie they were ever involved with was back in 2000 as two of the six writers on 'Scary Movie'. Based on their career track since then, it is clear that it was the other four writers who actually had the talent.
That this film hasn't been picked up by a proper distributor and has basically gone straight-to-video says it all. I'd love to know where Friedberg & Seltzer get the money to keep financing this stuff. It's probably all my fault, as I keep buying all their DVD's! If we all stopped watching, maybe they'd go away and get a real job. The thing is though, I can't help myself. I *knew* this film would be pants. I just had to see it for myself just to see how bad it really was. I'm desperately trying to think of something positive to say about this movie. How about - "It's not the worst of the six films they've made?" A final word to Maiara Walsh - you're better than this.