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Release Date:
6 October 2005 (New Zealand) moreTagline:
Sometimes it just isn't meant to happen. morePlot:
A film crew are making a Reality TV show about a couple brought together by a dating agency. However, the couple are so incompatible that the crew must manipulate the relationship to get the footage they need. | add synopsisUser Comments:
Zero-budget comedy funded through internet donations moreCast
(Credited cast) | Michelle Ang | ... | Violet McKenzie |
| Christopher Brougham | ... | Head Waiter |
| Alistair Browning | ... | Dudley Earnsworth |
| Richard Chapman | ... | Scruffy Guy |
| Desiree Rose Cheer | ... | Erina |
| Jemaine Clement | ... | Editor |
| Taika Cohen | ... | Waiter |
| Lee Donoghue | ... | Mark |
| Adam Gardiner | ... | Chef |
| Lauren Jackson | ... | Elegant Lady |
| Bevin Linkhorn | ... | Oscar |
| Danielle Mason | ... | Germaine Douglas |
| Dra McKay | ... | Becky |
| Bret McKenzie | ... | Wickham |
| Paul McLaughlin | ... | Pete |
| Jeremy Randerson | ... | Ian |
| Peter Rutherford | ... | Randal Fudhurst |
| Glenda Tuaine | ... | Anne Rata |
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New Zealand:80 minCountry:
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1.78 : 1 moreFilming Locations:
Wellington, New ZealandMOVIEmeter: 
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Futile Attraction is a zero-budget comedy funded through internet donations. It's a reasonably likable offbeat comedy about a film crew making a reality TV show. The crew follow a dating agency who bring an unlikely couple together - a kind of sci-fi geek guy with an incomprehensible passion for telephones and a somewhat irritating by-the-book hippie into every cause imaginable.
The film isn't very good though and the comedy is totally unsubtle and overstated. Overstated does work sometimes in comedy - but not with these actors or this particular script. I would commend some of the supporting cast and there are one or two funny bits with extras stealing the limelight in the background. The over-keen film crew guy, disinterested Asian boom girl and in particular the aging TV presenter at the end of his tether are all pretty good characters.
Getting a film funded via a website is quite a feat - and kudos to the filmmakers for it. This is probably the most impressive thing about the movie.