Don Peyote

Don Peyote
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Directed by	Dan Fogler Michael Canzoniero
Produced by	Thomas Michael Sullivan Luke Daniels Carlos Velazquez Stuart Braunstein
Written by	Dan Fogler Michael Canzoniero
Starring	Dan Fogler Kelly Hutchinson Jay Baruchel Josh Duhamel Annabella Sciorra Wallace Shawn
Music by	Ben Lovett
Cinematography	John Inwood
Edited by	Dan Bush
Production company	Highland Film Group Studio 13 Wingman Productions Redwire Pictures Casadelic Pictures
Distributed by	XLrator
Release dates	May 16, 2014 (2014-05-16)
Running time	99 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Don Peyote is a 2014 American comedy film written and directed by Dan Fogler and Michael Canzoniero. It stars Fogler as a slacker who has a spiritual awakening and becomes obsessed with conspiracy theories.

Plot

Warren (Dan Fogler) is an unemployed artist and pot head who has crazy dreams. That is the only remarkable thing about him until a day comes when a crazy homeless man confronts him on the street. From that day on, Warren descends into himself, insanity and a confusion of mind and body, spurned on by drugs along with Doomsday and conspiracy theories.

Cast

• Dan Fogler as Warren Allman
• Josh Duhamel
• Jay Baruchel as Bates
• Wallace Shawn as Psychotherapist
• Kelly Hutchinson as Karen
• Yang Miller as Balance
• Anne Hathaway as Agent of TRUTH
• Topher Grace as Glavin Culpepper
• Annabella Sciorra as Giulietta
• Abel Ferrara as Taxi cab driver
• Timothy Levitch
• Daniel Pinchbeck as himself
• Lauren Francesca as Goddess

Production

Fogler recruited the large cast of cameos in part by allowing them to co-write their characters and improvise. The film was shot between 2010 and 2013.

Release

XLrator gave Don Peyote a limited release on May 16, 2014, and released it on DVD on July 8, 2014.

Reception

Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, reports that 8% of thirteen surveyed critics gave the film a positive rating; the average rating was 3.5/10. Metacritic rated it 14/100 based on eight reviews. Sheri Linden of The Hollywood Reporter wrote, "To call Don Peyote a mess would be putting too fine a point on it. The hallucinatory odyssey of a conspiracy-theory-obsessed New Yorker is a bad trip, destination nowhere." Daniel M. Gold of The New York Times called it "a cautionary tale of drug-fueled decline" that may not have been realized by its creators. Gary Goldstein of the Los Angeles Times called it "a tedious, incoherent look at a paranoid stoner's emotional and spiritual unraveling". Calum Marsh of The Village Voice wrote that the film becomes increasingly incomprehensible as time goes on. Christopher Schobert of Indiewire rated it D and wrote, "Perhaps in the hands of a Charlie Kaufman or Michel Gondry, this story could move beyond the unexceptional, but in Fogler's hands, Don Peyote is a slow-moving dirge." Vadim Rizov of The Dissolve rated it 0/5 stars and wrote, "In practice, Dan Fogler's sophomore directorial effort (co-directed/written by Michael Canzoniero) is merely execrable, segueing incoherently from one stand-alone fragment of a terrible movie to another." Matt Donato of We Got This Covered rated it 2.5/5 stars and wrote, "Don Peyote is a delusional, hallucinogenic journey into the mind of an apocalypse obsessed lunatic – a jumbled puzzle of ideas missing a few crucial connections."

External links

• Don Peyote at IMDb
• Don Peyote at Rotten Tomatoes
• Don Peyote at Metacritic