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    Michael Rapaport is Special

    http://bigfathero.com/?p=46
    45 days ago in BIG FAT HERO - Saving the World one Burger at a time. · Authority: 1

    clipped from www.youtube.com clipped from www.slashfilm.com Due for release this summer from Magnolia Pictures, Special is a superhero spoof starring New York veteran actor Michael Rapaport (True Romance, The War at Home) about a parking lot cop who is prescribed antidepressants and begins to believe and act like he has super powers. The film, the debut of writer/director team Hal Haberman and Jeremy Passmore, has garnered solid buzz online thus far and Rapaport recently told MTV that a sequel has been discussed. The trailer below walks the edge of being a goofy comedy and offering dark commentary on mental illness, which seems to represent the film well judging by reviews. Have any of our UK readers seen Special, where it was released late last year and just hit DVD?

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    Michael Rapaport is a drugged up superhero in Special

    http://www.quietearth.us/articles/2008/03/24/Michael-Rapapor...
    45 days ago in Quiet Earth · Authority: 116

    It's been two years and counting since this premiered (at Sundance 2006) and still no release here in the states, luckily Magnolia's genre arm Magnet releasing seems to have it now so it's only a matter of time. It was however, recently released in the UK on DVD, and I have to say it looks like Rapaport's best, or at the minimum a nice change from him going ape**** about a bunch of bats in an underground cave. He plays a metermaid with an uneventful life who enrolls in a anti-depressant drug trial program and he starts feeling like a... superhero. So he's technically mentally ill, but from the trailer it looks like he's saving the day, part of the time anyways. Trailer following! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NUzKPbMT7k&hl=en via Slashfilm