Overnight Delivery (1998) on Netflix
Wyatt Trips, a student in Minneapolis, thinks his girlfriend Kimberly Jasney, away in Memphis, is unfaithful, so he mails her a breakup package. He learns he was wrong.
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Plot summary
Wyatt Trips is a student at Twin Cities College in Minneapolis. His girlfriend, Kimberly Jasney, studies at the University of Memphis. A call to her and a remark from her roommate convince him she is cheating with someone named The Ricker. At a strip club he meets the dancer Ivy Miller and takes her suggestion: he mails Kim a scathing letter with a topless photograph of himself with her, through Global Express. He then learns he was wrong. The deliveryman holding the package, Hal Ipswich, refuses to bend the company's rules to give it back.
Cast
- Richard Codyas Raditch
- Kurt Schweickhardtas Cop #1
- Buffy Sedlachekas Teacher
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Overnight Delivery (1998)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Joey Lauren Adams was considered for the part of the stripper Ivy and was going to skip out on her role in Chasing Amy to take it, but the part went to Reese Witherspoon.
- Kevin Smith had a hand in this script without his name on it: he worked on an early draft of Overnight Delivery, in what he called an uncredited rewrite.
- The entire cross-country road trip was shot in the Twin Cities of Minnesota and rural Minnesota. The Minneapolis Convention Center played the airport, the Ground Zero nightclub played the strip club, and the University of St. Thomas and the Embassy Suites Bloomington West stood in for the University of Memphis and its dormitory.
