| I Woke Up Early the Day I Died | |
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| Directed by | Aris Iliopulos |
| Produced by | Chris Hanley Billy Zane |
| Written by | Ed Wood |
| Starring | Billy Zane Ron Perlman Tippi Hedren Andrew McCarthy Will Patton Nicollette Sheridan |
| Music by | Larry Groupé |
| Cinematography | Michael F. Barrow |
| Editing by | Dody Dorn |
| Distributed by | Cinequanon Pictures International, Inc. |
| Release date(s) | September 10, 1999 |
| Running time | 90 min. |
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| Language | English |
I Woke Up Early The Day I Died (1998) is a camp comedy film written by Edward D. Wood, Jr.. The film, directed by Aris Iliopulos, stars Billy Zane, Tippi Hedren, Ron Perlman, and Christina Ricci, among many others.
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The movie, produced two decades after Edward D. Wood Jr.'s death, was aimed at being a tribute to him. Wood was awarded a posthumous Golden Turkey Award for being The Worst Director Of All Time,[1] and has since gained a cult following. The producers of this film used many techniques that Wood himself would use, such as including stock footage to save filming expenses.[2] The cast was made up of a huge list of actors, including several who were previously associated with Wood's films.
Billy Zane's unnamed character drugs a nurse at the Casa de la Loco Sanitarium and, disguised in her clothes, escapes. After stealing new clothes, he robs a loan service but promptly loses the money at a funeral attended by eccentric mourners. He then sets off to track down everyone present at the funeral in an attempt to find his cash, killing anyone who gets in his way.
Note, this is only a partial listing of the many cast members in this movie.
The film was panned by fans and critics alike, achieving a 30% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Many criticized Iliopulos's failure to recreate Wood's innocent ineptitude at film making, including Entertainment Weekly, which said the movie "never truly finds a way to evoke [Wood's] fractured hard-boiled syntax, his inimitable idiocy".[3]
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