Following its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January, the brotherly indie road dramedy Douchebag came home to the Newport Beach Film Festival Tuesday night–and really home for director Drake Doremus as it played in his former home town of Santa Ana.
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The film was well received by a large crowd at Regency's South Coast Village Theatre across from South Coast Plaza. The cast, crew, family and friends then gathered for a party afterward at the beautiful Corona del Mar home of co-star Ben York Jones' grandparents.
The second feature from Doremus, whose debut Spooner played at the 2009 Newport Beach Film Festival, Douchebag follows Sam and Tom Nussbaum, brothers who can't stand one another played by Andrew Dickler and Jones respectively.
The Nussbaums are forced together days before Sam is to be married, and forced even closer together when a plan is hatched to find Tom's fifth-grade girlfriend, Mary Barger (the actual name of Doremus' fifth-grade girlfriend at Oakridge
Private School in Orange). This leads to a road trip in which the full scope of Sam's
douchebaggery and the brothers' loathing of each other are exposed.
Here's the Weekly's previous Douchebag
cover story, featuring John Gilhooley's amazing portraits.
It was shot in Santa Monica,
Palm Springs
and outside the home of Rick Doremus, Drake's dad, on the Newport Beach
peninsula.
See, like it said at the top, Douchebag really did come home.
OC Weekly Editor-in-Chief Matt Coker has been engaging, enraging and entertaining readers of newspapers, magazines and websites for decades. He spent the first 13 years of his career in journalism at daily newspapers before “graduating” to OC Weekly in 1995 as the alternative newsweekly’s first calendar editor.