Senseless
Short description
Darryl Witherspoon is a cash-strapped economics student at an elite college who takes on every job he can find to cover his tuition and support his family. When he volunteers for a paid medical experiment, a researcher named Dr. Thomas Wheedon gives him an experimental serum that sharpens all five of his senses far beyond normal limits. The boost opens doors for him, including a place on the hockey team and the attention of Janice Tyson, but there is a catch: he can only tolerate the drug in small amounts, and the side effects grow worse the more he uses.
Penelope Spheeris directed the film, which came out in 1998, not long after Black Sheep and around the same point in her career as her Decline of Western Civilization documentary work. Marlon Wayans leads as Darryl, with David Spade, Matthew Lillard, Rip Torn, Tamara Taylor and Brad Dourif in supporting roles. Craig Mazin and Greg Erb wrote the screenplay, and David Hoberman produced it for Dimension Films and Miramax.
Made for about 15 million dollars, the film returned roughly 13 million worldwide. On IMDb it holds a 6 out of 10 from around 19,000 votes, and on TMDB it sits at 6.2 from a much smaller pool of voters. A critics' score of 3.8 out of 10 from 17 reviews indicates that reviewers responded far less warmly than general audiences did.
What's left behind the scenes
- This is Tamara Taylor's debut feature film.
- When Darryl plays his first hockey game, the announcer says he is close to not letting a single puck past him during the game. After that, they show Darryl blocking another attack, and the game ends. And when the players then celebrate their victory on the ice, you can notice that the scoreboard shows a score of 4:1.
- When Patrick Ewing throws Darryl on the basketball court, Ewing's jacket disappears and reappears with each shot change.
- When Darryl is in the clothing store, he is supposed to be naked, but in close-ups you can see he is wearing black underwear.
- At the end of the film, when Darryl enters the building and tips the doorman, the song “Movin on Up” from the series “The Jeffersons” (1975–1985) plays. Notably, Sherman Hemsley, who starred in that series, played the doorman.
- The scene in which Matthew Lillard’s character thinks Darryl is overdosing and his friends advise giving him an adrenaline shot to the heart is clearly a reference to a similar scene from the film “Pulp Fiction” (1994).
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