Taglines: They swore nothing would come between them. Then evil walked in the door.
Neil Diamond is the man of this film and is what brings the group of friends together, Darren Silverman (Jason Biggs), Wayne Lefessier (Steve Zahn) and J.D McNugget (Jack Black). When the group have just finished performing a song from their Neil Diamond tribute band they go to a bar to relax. A woman walks in and Wayne and J.D persuade Darren to go try and talk to her. He goes after a little more persuasion (lying) from Wayne who says she ‘wants him’. She quickly denies him and he accidently leaves his bottle of beer on the table.
Another, more repulsive, man comes over to try and hit on her and Darren comes back for his beer where the woman sits him down and pretends he is her boyfriend just to get rid of the other man. They spend the night talking and eventually end up in a realtionship. However, Darren’s realtionship with Judith (Amanda Peet) means he spends no time at all now with his two best friends. Darren tries to get Judith and his friends to become aquainted and perhaps even become friends but this plan is a disaster and leaves Wayne and J.D with no Darren.
They come up with several different ideas to try and get Darren back including ‘cheating’ photographs and breaking and entering. All of these plans are foiled but there is one plan that they hope will work. In high school Darren was in love with another girl, Sandy Perkus (Amanda Detmer) and she is back in town so the two guys try to persuade her and Darren to get back together.
Saving Silverman is a 2001 comedy film directed by Dennis Dugan and starring Jason Biggs, Steve Zahn, Jack Black and Amanda Peet. Neil Diamond has a cameo role playing himself. In the film, Darren Silverman’s longtime friends try to save him from marrying his controlling new girlfriend, whose behavior threatens the friends, their band, and Darren’s chance at happiness with his lifelong true love. Outside North America, the film was titled Evil Woman.
This film falls within a cross-genre film type from the late 1990s and early 2000s in which grooms are saved, or nearly saved, from distasteful marriage. Cast member Jason Biggs said the film is based on “a universal problem” of girlfriends who control who their partners are friends with. Saving Silverman was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia[3] at a cost of USD$22 million.[4] Neil Diamond said humorously that “I was dragged into this project kicking and screaming.”
Saving Silverman (2001)
Directed by: Dennis Dugan
Starring: Jason Biggs, Steve Zahn, Jack Black, Amanda Peet, Amanda Detmer, R. Lee Ermey, Neil Diamond, Kyle Gass, Norman Armour, Christopher Logan, Esme Lambert
Screenplay by: Hank Nelken, Greg DePaul
Production Design by: Michael S. Bolton
Cinematography by: Arthur Albert
Film Editing by: Debra Neil-Fisher
Costume Design by: Melissa Toth
Set Decoration by: Louise Roper
Art Direction by: James Steuart
Music by: Mike Simpson
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for crude and sexual humor, language, and thematic material.
Distributed by: Columbia Pictures
Release Date: February 9, 2001
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