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'''''American Movie''''' is a 1999 [[documentary]] directed by Chris Smith about the trouble Mark Borchardt went through trying to make an independent horror movie called ''[[Coven]]''.
It's 1996. Mark Bordchardt is a wanna-be film director of Wisconsin. He has three children and an estranged ex-girlfriend, lives with his parents, and is alcoholic. To make a living he delivers newspapers. He dreams of filming a project called ''Northwestern'', but early in the movie admits he can't make it with the resources he has. Instead, he decides to finish a smaller project, ''Coven'', that he left unfinished years ago.
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* [[B-Movie]]: About the making of one. In fact, the deal between Mark and Bill involves about it selling enough ''VHS'' copies of it. The first screening is only on a local theater.
* [[Cool Uncle]]: Mark's Uncle Bill, that is supportive of Mark's dreams, despite being a [[Cloudcuckoolander]] that you would think it's hoarding his money since he lives on a trailer.
* [[Darkest Hour]]: The aftermath of ''Super Bowl XXXI". Not because Mark cares about the game, but because his frustration of his making of ''Coven'' reaches a boiling point.▼
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Uncle Bill, that lives on a trailer despite being extremely wealthy, apparently by his own choice. Considering he is eighty years old during filming, dementia may be a cause, but it is up to interpretation.
▲* [[Darkest Hour]]: The aftermath of ''Super Bowl XXXI
* [[Foil]]: Mike is perhaps accidently one for Mark, being a recovering alcoholic whose addiction to the substance was changed to one for gambling. He argues that alcohol gives the addict only losses, while a gamble can eventually win. One may say his attempts to get money have even worse chances of being successful than ''Coven''.
* [[Mood Whiplash]]: Sometimes the mishaps on-screen are very funny, but the mishaps have consequences, real consequences, that makes Mark's situation worse, making the movie kind of a tragicomedy in tone.
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