Tiptoes

Not to be confused with the 1927 film Tip Toes.
For other uses, see Tiptoe (disambiguation).
Tiptoes
DVD cover for Tiptoes
Directed byMatthew Bright
Written byMatthew Bright[1][a]
Produced byElie Cohn
Chris Hanley
Fernando Sulichin
Douglas Urbanski
Brad Wyman
StarringGary Oldman
Kate Beckinsale
Patricia Arquette
Matthew McConaughey
Peter Dinklage
CinematographySonja Rom
Music byCurt Sobel
Production
companies
Distributed byReality Check Productions
Release date
  • September 8, 2003 (2003-09-08)
Running time
150 minutes[2][3] (director's cut)
90 minutes
CountriesUnited States
France
LanguageEnglish

Tiptoes is a 2003 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Matthew Bright.[1][a] The film stars Gary Oldman, Kate Beckinsale, Patricia Arquette, and Matthew McConaughey. The film's plot revolves around an average-sized man (McConaughey) who struggles with revealing to his pregnant fiancée (Beckinsale) that his entire family are little people, as he worries that their unborn child may be born with dwarfism. The film attracted controversy for the casting of non-dwarf actor Gary Oldman as a dwarf.[1][3] Oldman plays McConaughey's character's twin brother despite being eleven years older than him.[3]

The film debuted in a 150-minute director's cut at Harry Knowles' Butt-Numb-A-Thon film festival.[2][3] Bright was fired from the film during post-production, and subsequently had his screenwriting credit removed, after the film was re-edited without his involvement.[1] The 90-minute producers' cut screened at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, where Bright criticized the film and the producers for re-editing it.[1][3] The producers' cut went on to receive negative reviews, and in some reviews, it has been called one of the worst movies ever made.[1]

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  3. ^ a b c d e Rabin, Nathan (20 January 2010). "It's Only The Size Of Your Heart That Counts Case File #154: Tiptoes". The A.V. Club. Retrieved September 10, 2010.


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