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2010’s Top 10: Repeat Offenders in Todd Phillips and Zach Galifianakis

If I’m Zach Galifianakis I’ve already offered to donate any organ to director Todd Phillips in the case that he needs one of course. If I’m Todd Phillips, I’ve already signed a deal with the devil to make Galifianakis available for any role he throws at him. Allow him enough space to roam and the results can be better than whatever was scripted — and I imagine that’s where Galifianakis went to with The Alan Garner role in 2009’s The Hangover. This year, we saw out of control taken to the extreme with Due Date, which only promises that The Hangover II (making it three film in three years) could be a defining moment for this odd-couple.

Eric Lavallée

Published on January 4, 2011

8. Todd Phillips and Zach Galifianakis

If I’m Zach Galifianakis I’ve already offered to donate any organ to director Todd Phillips in the case that he needs one of course. If I’m Todd Phillips, I’ve already signed a deal with the devil to make Galifianakis available for any role he throws at him. Allow him enough space to roam and the results can be better than whatever was scripted — and I imagine that’s where Galifianakis went to with The Alan Garner role in 2009’s The Hangover. This year, we saw out of control taken to the extreme with Due Date, which only promises that The Hangover II (making it three film in three years) could be a defining moment for this odd-couple.

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).