Tiptoes

Tiptoes (also known as Tiny Tiptoes) is a 2003 comedy-drama film, directed by Matthew Bright and starring Gary Oldman, Kate Beckinsale, Patricia Arquette, and Matthew McConaughey.

Plot
Carol, a painter, falls in love with Steven Bedalia, a seemingly-perfect man. After Carol becomes pregnant, Steven struggles to reveal to her that he is the only average-sized person in his family, who suffer from dwarfism, and their baby might be a dwarf.

Why It Sucks

 * 1) The movie's production was troubled.
 * 2) * After turning in his cut, Matthew Bright was fired, and the film was promptly reedited to hell.
 * 3) * Bright subsequently attempted to have his name removed from the film, but because he was not a member of the Director's Guild, he could only change his directing credit to "Bill Weiner".
 * 4) * There were repeated arguments between Bright and the producers throughout production.
 * 5) Despite having plenty of little people actors in the rest of the movie, they decided to cast Gary Oldman, an able person, as a dwarf.
 * 6) * They also don't do a very good job of making him look short. In quite a few scenes, it's obvious that Oldman is shuffling around on his knees, or that he's being played by a body double.
 * 7) Due to the aforementioned reediting, the movie feels really disjointed, with some plots that don't really go anywhere.
 * 8) Peter Dinklage's fake French accent is terrible.
 * 9) Bad writing:
 * 10) * Much of the dialogue is cheesy and nonsensical.
 * 11) * The ending (where Beckinsale and Oldman's characters end up together) is rather mean-spirited and dissatisfying, especially considering the lack of chemistry between Beckinsale and Oldman's characters.
 * 12) * The movie doesn't know if it wants to be a comedy or drama, and ends up with a lot of mood whiplash.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) The acting is pretty good, particularly from Gary Oldman and Peter Dinklage.
 * 2) Some moments are genuinely funny, like many of Peter Dinklage's scenes.

Reception
The movie received mostly negative reviews, with a 20% critic rating and 22% audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Much criticism focused on the casting of Gary Oldman over an actor who actually had dwarfism.

Trivia

 * As of 2021, the director's cut of the movie has yet to be released.
 * At the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, Bright went on a tirade against the film, leading to him getting dragged off the stage.
 * As a condition for being in the film, Kate Beckinsale demanded she be allowed to wear her "lucky hat", which you see her wearing in some scenes.

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