Overnight

If you're in the mood for a good bit of schadenfreude, pick up Overnight on DVD. This simplistic documentary records the extremely rise and subsequent fall of Troy Duffy, the director of Boondock Saints who made headlines as an instant success when Miramax picked up his script for Saints, assigned Duffy to be the director with a $15 million budget, and signed his band to a soundtrack deal. In the days following the deal, Troy's friends rally around him and wait for the profit fallout, but Troy's ego, foul mouth, and eventual unwillingness to share his success eventually screw the deal for everyone. The film goes into turnaround, the studio stops taking his calls, and the soundtrack deal falls through. Everything goes south in a hurry, and it's a joy to watch this incredibly arrogant prick get his due.

Duffy eventually did make Boondock Saints for a smaller budget with another production company, but it didn't make any money until it became a cult hit on DVD. A pleasant twist of the knife for the audience is the fact that Duffy's agency failed to get him a share of the video profits.

According to the IMDB, Boondock Saints II is in production. Will Duffy eventually make good and become a real boy an actual success? Time will tell, but after the way Troy comes off in this picture, somehow I don't think there will be an Overnight 2 to show us the story -- even if the ending is a happy one.