Trainwreck:
My Life As An Idiot (2007)
comedy drama
directed
by : Tod Harrison Williams
featuring
: Seann William Scott - Gretchen Mol - Jeff Garlin - Deirdre O'Connell
- Denis O'Hare
running
time : 1 hour 33 minutes
A man attempts to
deal with a truly remarkable variety of personal and emotional problems
in this comedy drama based on the real-life experiences of comedian and
author Jeff Nichols. Jeff (Seann William Scott) is a man edging into his
thirties who has a serious drinking problem along with Attention Deficit
Disorder, Dyslexia and Tourette's Syndrome; to say Jeff has a hard time
dealing with others stretches the boundaries of understatement, and he
devotes a fair share of his day to support meetings, even ones dealing
with conditions which don't involve his problems. Jeff prefers to blame
his wealthy parents (Dierdre O'Connell) and (Denis O'Hare) for his problems,
even though they haven't done much besides stand aside as he's burned down
their home. Unable to hold down a job, Jeff has been evicted from the garage
he was renting from Bert (Kevin Conway), who can no longer handle his many
eccentricities, but with nowhere else to go, he somehow charms his way
into the heart and home of Lynn (Gretchen Mol), a woman he met at a support
group for people with relationship problems. While Lynn is a walking mass
of phobias regarding men and romance, she discovers something in the damaged
Jeff that encourages her to take a chance on him. Adapted from Nichols's
autobiography The Little Yellow Bus, Trainwreck: My Life As An Idiot was
the first theatrical feature from director Tod Harrison Williams.