Hacker Cinema
Novocaine
2025 · Film · 110 min
Directed by Dan Berk, Robert Olsen
When the girl of his dreams is kidnapped, everyman Nate turns his inability to feel pain into an unexpected strength in his fight to get her back.
1 positive1 negativefrom 2 commenters
Where to watch
No streaming data for this title.
2 comments on Hacker News
> Nearly every movie released by a major studio in the past year based on an original script or a little-known book has been a box-office disappointment. Before this weekend’s flops were Warner Bros. Discovery’s “Mickey 17” and “The Alto Knights,” Paramount’s “Novocaine,” Apple’s “Fly Me to the Moon,” Amazon’s “Red One,” and the independently financed “Horizon: An American Saga Chapter 1” and “Megalopolis.”
These were all bad movies (Below 7 on IMDB), including "Drop". Most had a redeeming feature though.
The problem is multiverse that's bad still does OK, "Snow White" hopefully will make a loss but it's still pulled in $181 million so far.
2024 Box Office, hard to find an independent movie too low - https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/world/2024/
"Juror #2" is probably the worst as a solid movie for the genre and probably Clint Eastwood's last. It was mistreated by Warner Bros.
Absolutely true. Steve Martin's "Novocaine" was a dark comedy that made fun of the issue of dentists that take advantage of their patients, sexually, while under anesthesia (and it covered drug abuse as well). That was a serious concern too, but they made a (relatively) good film out of it.
I'd say the issue is less the making of a dark comedy, and more that Americans have a hard time, in general, of coping with a tragedy. When is it acceptable to make a comedy about someone's death? Is it acceptable if they were complicit in the act?