Man of the Year (2002 film)

Man of the Year is a 2002 American black comedy film directed by Straw Weisman, starring John Ritter.

Man of the Year
Directed by	Straw Weisman
Produced by	Betsy Fels Andy Goldberg Richard Mann
Starring	John Ritter
Cinematography	Al Satterwhite
Edited by	Bill Black
Music by	David S. Kates Jeffrey Silverman
Release dates	12 April 2002 (2002-04-12) (Method Fest Independent Film Festival) 5 December 2003 (2003-12-5) (Los Angeles)
Running time	101 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$25,000[1]

Plot

Cast

• John Ritter as Bill
• Jade Carter as Jim
• Adria Dawn as Chloe
• Brian Cousins as Phil
• Heidi Mark as Carol
• Idalis DeLeón as Joan
• Clayton Landey as Stuart
• Khrystyne Haje as Vanessa
• Danny Ponce as Mickey
• Lin Shaye as Flora
• Kathleen Gati as Ella
• Leeza Gibbons as The Reporter
• Archie Hahn as Nick
• Amy Hill as The Maid
• Jon Jacobs as Johnathan
• Shawnee Free Jones as Anna
• Samantha Lloyd as Sylvia
• Ivo Lopez as The Butler
• Kristen Miller as Sally
• Jack Mosshammer as Parker
• Oliver Muirhead as Reg
• Annie Sorell as Shauna
• Rebecca Harrell Tickell as Donna
• James Wilder as Vaughn
• Marian Zapico [it] as Zarita

Production

The film was shot in 12 hours on July 27, 2001. Ritter was reportedly paid $100 for his work in the film.^[1][2]

Reception

Robert Koehler of Variety wrote that while the cast "proves improvisationally capable", the plot is "rather conventional".^[3]

Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times wrote that Weisman "slices and dices his images to such an extent that it takes a lot of time for the story lines and the key characters and their tangled and changing relationships to emerge with any clarity", and that "when it becomes possible to identify the people and keep track of them, they by and large prove to be generic characters rather than distinctive individuals."^[4]