Overnight (2003) on Netflix
R20031h 22mDocumentary
Troy Duffy, a Boston bartender, sells a Hollywood studio his screenplay for The Boondock Saints and gets to direct it himself. Two friends agree to film him and manage his band.
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- Netflix3.7/5
- IMDb7.1/104,781 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes78%
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Plot summary
In 1997 in Los Angeles, Troy Duffy tends bar, plays in a band and writes screenplays. A studio chief buys his script for The Boondock Saints for $300,000 and, though Duffy has never directed anything, hands him a $15 million budget to make it. His band, The Brood, is to record the soundtrack and sign a record deal. The same executive agrees to purchase the bar where Duffy works and leave him running it. Duffy brings in two friends to manage the band and film his days. He entertains celebrities at his bar and takes a production office for teleconferences with producers.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Overnight (2003)
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- Troy Duffy sold his Boondock Saints script to Miramax's Harvey Weinstein for $300,000, and though he had never made a film or studied the subject, Weinstein let him direct with a $15 million budget.
- After being dropped by Maverick Records, Troy Duffy's band signed to Atlantic Records, renamed themselves The Boondock Saints, and their debut CD sold only 690 copies before they were dropped and disbanded.
- On the night of The Boondock Saints' screening at the Palm Springs International Film Festival, a car jumped the curb and hit Troy Duffy and producer Chris Brinker; neither was seriously injured and the driver was never identified.
- Troy Duffy's contract with Franchise Films barred him from profiting from The Boondock Saints' television, home media, or foreign sales, so despite the film becoming a sleeper hit on home video he spent all his earnings and his bar closed.
- Troy Duffy asked friends Tony Montana and Mark Brian Smith to manage his band The Brood and document his activities on film, which became the documentary Overnight.
