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Pauly Shore Is Dead

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  • 1h 22m
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4.4/10
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Pauly Shore in Pauly Shore Is Dead (2003)
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Hollywood's Pauly Shore loses everything, fakes his own death, and gets caught.Hollywood's Pauly Shore loses everything, fakes his own death, and gets caught.Hollywood's Pauly Shore loses everything, fakes his own death, and gets caught.
IMDb RATING
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4.8K
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  • Director
    • Pauly Shore
  • Writers
    • Kirk Fox
    • Pauly Shore
  • Stars
    • Ashley L. Anderson
    • Pamela Anderson
    • Camille Anderson
Top credits
  • Director
    • Pauly Shore
  • Writers
    • Kirk Fox
    • Pauly Shore
  • Stars
    • Ashley L. Anderson
    • Pamela Anderson
    • Camille Anderson
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 54User reviews
    • 26Critic reviews
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 nomination

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    Trailer 0:48
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    Photos8

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    Ashley L. Anderson
    Ashley L. Anderson
    • Ashleyas Ashley
    Pamela Anderson
    Pamela Anderson
    • Selfas Self
    Camille Anderson
    Camille Anderson
    • Michael Madsen's Girlas Michael Madsen's Girl
    Beaumont Bacon
    • Pauly Look-A-Like Contestantas Pauly Look-A-Like Contestant
    Adam Barnhardt
    • Lawrenceas Lawrence
    Dan Barnes
    • Cop #4as Cop #4
    A.J. Benza
    A.J. Benza
    • A.J. Benzaas A.J. Benza
    Susan Berger
    Susan Berger
    • Tourist #2as Tourist #2
    Jaime Bergman
    Jaime Bergman
    • Zoey Abernackyas Zoey Abernacky
    Blunt
    • Newspaper Stand Attendantas Newspaper Stand Attendant
    B-Real
    B-Real
    • B-Realas B-Real
    Todd Bridges
    Todd Bridges
    • Todd Bridgesas Todd Bridges
    W. Earl Brown
    W. Earl Brown
    • Bucky From Kentuckyas Bucky From Kentucky
    Julia Brox
    • Springer Girl #2as Springer Girl #2
    Julie Bruce
    • Tourist #9 in Vanas Tourist #9 in Van
    Dennis Burkley
    Dennis Burkley
    • Celebrity Judge #3as Celebrity Judge #3
    Chuy Castro
    • Comedy Store Bounceras Comedy Store Bouncer
    Gavin Chapman
    • Little Boy Golferas Little Boy Golfer
    • Director
      • Pauly Shore
    • Writers
      • Kirk Fox
      • Pauly Shore
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    Storyline

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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      Entirely funded by Pauly Shore.
    • Goofs
      When Pauly and Kirk are driving through Los Angeles, a billboard for Red Planet (2000) is in the background. This scene is set in 1997, and that movie was released in 2000.
    • Quotes

      Pauly Shore: Is there a part in there for me? Hey, is there a part in there for me?

    • Crazy credits
      "This movie is dedicated to all the people who helped me make it, and to all my fans who helped me pay for it."
    • Connections
      Features Totally Pauly (1990)
    • Soundtracks
      Mood Track Number 1,2,3
      Written and Performed by Andrew Grush (as Andy Grush)

    User reviews54

    Review
    Top review
    8/10
    Shore's comedy film days are the only thing dead
    Pauly Shore is one of my favorite comedians, and probably long forgotten about. Stoners in the nineties have turned into fast food workers who no longer know or need Pauly, and since he's milked his fifteen minutes of fame, no one really has followed the man himself since the late nineties most likely. Which is probably why he made this mockumentary faking his own death. Leave it to Pauly! Pauly Shore is Dead is just what it sounds like; Pauly Shore's career has taken a turn for the worst, and he is desperately begging his friend Kurt Loder, a more successful actor, for any role. Pauly begins to realize his purpose on this planet is none, and after getting some strangely morbid advice from Sam Kinison, Pauly fakes his death. This becomes a genius plan on his part because now he sees how the world reacts to him being dead. Surprisingly, everyone is sympathetic, and Pauly proves death is better than life itself.

    Along the way, Pauly captures the reactions of celebrities of music and film like Pam Anderson, Ja Rule, Chris Rock, Carrot Top, Kurt Loder, etc. The interviews are very humorous, and sometimes make me forget I'm watching a film about Pauly Shore. Todd Bridges also makes a very memorable, and humorous cameo. The stars make the film without a doubt.

    There isn't too much to say about this. I am a Pauly Shore fan, but it saddened me to watch him fake his own death. I enjoyed Bio-Dome and In the Army Now, and think there are far worse actors than Shore. He is rather funny in this film, and asks a very good/deep question in this film - "would you rather be a dead genius, or a living idiot?" Living idiot for myself.

    But obviously this will spawn a line of more mockumentaries by Shore. I think his VJ, MTV, stoner comedy movie days are over. That was clear by Pauly Shore's Adopted that came out a few years after this.

    Starring: Pauly Shore, Ashley L. Anderson, Pamela Anderson, Camille Anderson, Adam Sandler, Eminem, Charlie Sheen, Todd Bridges, and Ben Stiller. Directed by: Pauly Shore.
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    Details

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    • Release date
      • January 2003 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • You'll Never Wiez in This Town Again
    • Filming locations
      • Los Angeles, California, USA
    • Production company
      • Landing Patch Productions
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    Box office

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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $11,000
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $11,000
      • Sep 19, 2004
    • Gross worldwide
      • $11,000
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 22 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Stereo
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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