Quartile rating: 7/10 · 1 rating
Alternately hilarious and horrifying, Overnight chronicles one man's misadventures of making a Hollywood movie. It starts out as a rags to riches story as Troy Duffy, a Boston-bred bartender, sells his first screenplay for The Boondock Saints.
Overnight is a compelling documentary about Troy Duffy's spectacular rise and fall in Hollywood. The narrative arc is naturally dramatic and darkly comedic, making for an engaging story even without scripted plotting. Acting isn't applicable in a traditional sense, but the subjects' on-camera presence is uneven — Duffy himself is captivating but often repellent. Cinematography is functional documentary-style, nothing distinctive. The novelty lies in its raw, fly-on-the-wall access to a genuinely unique ego-driven meltdown, though cautionary tales of Hollywood hubris aren't uncommon. The ending delivers a satisfying, if sobering, conclusion to Duffy's self-destruction arc.