''Surviving Eden'' is a 2004 American comedy film written by Joanne Giovannini Storkan and

Greg Pritikin Greg Pritikin is an independent filmmaker from Chicago. Biography According to his official biography, Pritikin inherited a love of film from his father, who had an extensive collection of 16mm prints. Pritikin watched them religiously before sta ...

, directed by Pritikin and starring

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and

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Plot

Dennis Flotchky wins a reality TV show and becomes the subject of a documentary that chronicles his short-lived fame and fortune.

Cast

as Dennis Flotchky *

as Maria Villanova *

as Maude Silver *

Sam Robards Sam Prideaux Robards (born December 16, 1961) is an American actor. He is best known for his film roles in '' American Beauty'' (1999) and '' A.I. Artificial Intelligence'' (2001). For his performance in the Broadway production of '' The Man Who ...

as Gary Gold *

Savannah Haske Savannah Haske (born November 18, 1977) is a former American television and film actor and writer. She is perhaps best known for her role in the television series Third Watch ''Third Watch'' is an American crime drama television series cr ...

as Sister Agnes O'Malley *

as "Sterno" *

John Landis John David Landis (born August 3, 1950) is an American filmmaker and actor. He is best known for directing comedy films such as ''The Kentucky Fried Movie'' (1977), ''Animal House, National Lampoon's Animal House'' (1978), The Blues Brothers (f ...

as Dr. Levine *

Conchata Ferrell Conchata Galen Ferrell (March 28, 1943 – October 12, 2020) was an American actress. She played Berta the housekeeper on the sitcom ''Two and a Half Men'' from 2003 to 2015, and she received two nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outs ...

as Rosemary Flotchky * Kentaro Abe as Kendo * Gary Rosen as Larry *

Deep Roy Gurdeep "Deep" Roy (born Mohinder Purba; 1 December 1957) is a Kenyan-British actor, puppeteer and stuntman. At tall, he has often been cast as diminutive characters, such as Teeny Weeny in '' The NeverEnding Story'', all the Oompa-Loompas in ...

as Mo "Indian Mo" * Jackie Katzman

Release

The film was released in Manhattan on August 25, 2006.

Reception

The film has a 14% rating on

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based on 14 reviews. Nick Schager of ''

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'' awarded the film 1 and a half stars out four.

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of ''

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'' gave the film a negative review and wrote, "Although the early scenes hold out some promise that Greg Pritikin’s ''Surviving Eden'', a parody of ''

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'' in which contestants compete for a million-dollar payday by playing

Adam and Eve Adam and Eve, according to the creation myth of the Abrahamic religions, were the first man and woman. They are central to the belief that humanity is in essence a single family, with everyone descended from a single pair of original ancestors. ...

in a jungle setting, could amount to something, the movie quickly runs out of ideas."

References

External links

* * {{Rotten Tomatoes, surviving-eden American comedy films