Chuck & Buck (2000)
Directed by Miguel Arteta
Chuck and Buck are childhood best friends whose lives have taken very different paths. While Chuck moved away and now has a real life, Buck stayed behind and developed a dangerous fixation—on Chuck's life.
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Cast members Chris and Paul Wietz, wrote Antz and American Pie , with Paul directing the latter film while his brother produced.
The other co-star, Chris Weitz, is also half of the writing and directing team (with brother Paul, who also appears in Chuck & Buck as an actor thinly disguised as Chuck performing in a play called Hank & Frank written by Buck) responsible for writing and directing American Pie and writing Antz and the upcoming Nutty Professor II: The Klumps.
Looking at Miguel Arteta’s name in the credits of Yes Day , an effervescent new comedy premiering on Netflix, it’s easy to forget that he once directed an adaptation of Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day ; the director of transgressive films like Chuck & Buck and Duck Butter hasn’t helmed a lot of family entertainment before, but at least his prior credit includes pedigreed children’s literature.
Miguel Arteta broke out with dark indies like “Chuck & Buck” and “The Good Girl,” but the last decade has found the filmmaker largely making bland studio fare like “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day” and “Like a Boss.”
Miguel Arteta directs — he directed the 2000 offbeat cult hit “Chuck & Buck,” so he can get weird.
Director Miguel Arteta (2000’s Chuck & Buck, 2020’s Like a Boss) keep things moving at a brisk pace since it only runs under 90-minute long minus the standard-issue preachy tones typically associated with family-friendly movies.
The latest pivot in the long and strange filmography of “Chuck & Buck” director Miguel Arteta (who leveraged early Sundance fame into a career spent pinballing between off-beat indies like “Beatriz at Dinner” and broad studio fare along the lines of last year’s “Like a Boss”), “Yes Day” swan-dives into its premise with all the gloss and obviousness we’ve come to expect from streaming movies in the content age, but there’s also a knowing sharpness to the opening scenes that should intrigue parents even as the film’s blitz-fast story unfolds at a pace designed to keep up their kids’ short attention spans.