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| Directed by | Troy Miller |
| Produced by | Troy Miller Mark Burg Oren Koules |
| Written by | David Cross Bob Odenkirk Scott Aukerman BJ Porter Brian Posehn |
| Starring | David Cross Bob Odenkirk David Koechner Jill Talley Ben Stiller Jack Black |
| Music by | Scott Aukerman Eban Schletter |
| Cinematography | Shawn Maurer |
| Editing by | Dean Holland |
| Distributed by | New Line Home Video |
| Release date(s) | September 16, 2003 |
| Running time | 86 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Run Ronnie Run is an American direct-to-video comedy film produced in 2001 and released in 2003, a spin-off from the HBO sketch comedy show Mr. Show. The recurring character Ronnie Dobbs (David Cross) is the focal point of the movie. It was directed by Troy Miller.
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Ronnie Dobbs (David Cross), a redneck petty criminal whose scams were caught on tape by a Cops-like television show called Fuzz, is noticed by failing infomercial personality/inventor Terry Twillstein (Bob Odenkirk), who sees Dobbs's popularity with lowbrow viewers. He promotes the idea to television executives for a show, "Ronnie Dobbs Gets Arrested" in which he is arrested in a different city each week. The show becomes phenomenally successful, making Dobbs rich and famous and changing his life dramatically.
Many of the regular cast members of Mr. Show made appearances, including Jill Talley as Dobbs's occasional wife, and several Hollywood actors made cameos, usually as themselves. Unlike on Mr. Show, where they each played a wide variety in every episode, Odenkirk and Cross each play a single character throughout the film, with the exception of a brief appearance by R&B duo Three Times One Minus One. Jack Black starred as a chimney sweep and sings "The Golden Rule Song".
Trey Parker and Matt Stone both make cameos in this movie, as well as John Stamos, Rebecca Romijn, Ben Stiller, Jeff Goldblum, Mandy Patinkin, David Baddiel, Jeff Garlin, Scott Ian and Kathy Griffin, nearly all of whom appear in the same scene.
Even after the film opened the 2002 Sundance Film Festival, it experienced a troubled distribution. Bob Odenkirk, one of the writers, first publicly criticized the studio (New Line Cinema) and released to his fans the personal email addresses of Robert Shaye (Chairman) and other principals of the studio, assuring a direct-to-video release. He later went on to blame the film’s director Troy Miller for not giving him rights to a final cut.
The film was reviewed favorably by some critics, but was dismissed by many fans of Mr. Show. Rotten Tomatoes has a 75% fresh rating. Bob Odenkirk has been outspoken about his dissatisfaction with Miller's edit, while David Cross has stated it is the film they wrote (though it should be noted the criticisms were directed not at the shooting or directing of the film, but at the editing stage which Miller alone helmed). Odenkirk eventually said of his attempts to release a preferred cut, “I’m no longer arguing for a movie I don’t really like, for a cut that’s a little better but still isn’t very good.” [1]
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