Screwed is a 2000 comedy film starring Norm Macdonald and Dave Chappelle, and written and directed by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski. The film, released by Universal Studios, is rated PG-13 (in the United States) for crude and sex-related humor, nudity, language, some violence and brief drug content. The film also stars Elaine Stritch, Danny DeVito, Sarah Silverman, and Sherman Helmsley. It went through a number of title changes before the producers finally settled on "Screwed"; preliminary titles included "Pittsburgh" (the name of the Pennsylvania city in which the film takes place) and also "Ballbusted" (due to Stritch's character's harshness exhibited throughout the movie; at one point, Chappelle's character refers to her as a "ballbuster"). Norm MacDonald plays an overworked, underpaid chauffeur who kidnaps his employer's dog when she refuses to buy him a new uniform. The dog is held for a $1,000,000 ransom, but the plan to get the money fails. Teaming up with his friend from the local chicken shack (Chappelle), the chauffer concocts a new scheme. The new plan calls for Norm to mug his boss as she goes to drop off the ransom money, and to have a dead body left behind dressed as Norm to throw off the police. The plan goes wrong, however, when Norm succeeds in getting the money, only to lose it to two small children. Norm's character is then found by the police and sent to a hospital, as the children have soundly brutalized him. The police then find the dead body that was supposed to take the place of Norm as he made his getaway. The police go after the coroner accomplice (DeVito), who goes on a rampage looking for revenge. |