Jane White Is Sick and Twisted

Any movie that has to proclaim itself as being sick and twisted is trying too hard, which sums up this would-be satire from director-producer David Michael Latt (Killers), a tale of an immature shut-in (the eponymous Jane, played by Diagnosis Murder's Kim Little) who views everything through the filter of TV. The script is made up primarily of TV-show clichés ("Jane, you ignorant slut," ha ha) and randomly inserted opening-credit parodies from Monty Python to Frasier. Absent is much of a story, save Jane's absent-father issues (the plot of every recent film, it seems) and an on-off romance with a stranger who might just be a serial killer (Wil Wheaton, and it's been a loooong time since Stand by Me). What's remarkable is the number of familiar TV character actors Latt has managed to assemble, including Maureen McCormick, Dustin Diamond, Colin Mochrie, Phil LaMarr, David L. Lander, Richard Kline and many more; apparently they had nothing better to do. Don't say the same.