“We shot all the street stuff, everything with real people, was shot in San Bernardino,” the movie’s director, Eric Notarnicola, says. The many scenes that take place inside the pathetic campaign’s headquarters, for example, were filmed at a hotel in the San Gabriel Valley. The production was only partially shot in San Bernardino. There were a lot of reasons for doing it there, but those are probably the big ones.” “Throw him in the middle of that and trying to make the Trump argument there was just going to be an easy way to create conflict and some uncomfortable comedy. “We felt there was great, easy access to irony by placing this guy in a very, historically diverse place with a heavy Latino and immigrant population,” Heidecker explains. I’ve been watching Trump for years … and incorporated a lot of that into this character. Sometimes, we’ve got a little ESP on the culture, I think. “We’ve been doing the vape thing for a while now. “He launches a revenge campaign,” says Heidecker, who appeared in Jordan Peele’s “Us” earlier this year and is probably best known as the Tim part of “Tim and Eric’s Awesome Show, Great Job!” with comedy partner Eric Wareheim. Something he is, of course, too dumb and incompetent to pull off. But Heidecker got off, and now he’s back to get revenge on the “rat” Rosetti by trying to win his job. In the 2017 miniseries “The Trial,” Rosetti almost convicted (the guilty as sin) Heidecker of killing 20 people with toxic vaporizer pens that he’d sold at a Victorville EDM festival he promoted. Tim Heidecker in “Mister America.” (Courtesy of Magnolia Pictures) The brainchild of Tim Heidecker - who plays the character “Tim Heidecker” he’s developed on various podcasts, web episodes, TV series and other media within the “On Cinema” universe - the movie charts the ill-tempered, misinformed Heidecker character’s election run against San Bernardino District Attorney Vincent Rosetti (Don Pecchia). It’s actually only by coincidence that this low-fi, low-budget mockumentary is coming out at a time when some of its themes are big news. 9 at the San Bernardino Theatre Square Stadium 14 and the Alamo Drafthouse in Downtown Los Angeles, before starting a weeklong run at the Alamo on Friday. The film plays for one night only on Wednesday, Oct. Just in time for real-life impeachment inquiries and vape banning, the political satire “Mister America” brings those and some much more ridiculous issues to cinematic life in San Bernardino.
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