![]() In his review of the film for The New York Times, A.O. ![]() The actress also was in Leiner’s 9/11 film The Great New Wonderful (2005), appearing as a favor to her friend. Leiner helmed a short film, Time Expired (1992), that featured Falco and John Leguizamo, then wrote and directed the feature comedy Layin’ Low (1996), starring Falco, Jeremy Piven and Louise Lasser. “But I got to work on a lot of movies, so I’d start working with Hal Hartley and Nick Gomez and Edie Falco and all these great actors and people who started making movies as soon as they got out of school.” I’d do film, I’d do art, I’d do photography and I got to just really fuck around,” he told Ain’t It Cool News in 2006. I wasn’t a film student but I got to do whatever the hell I wanted. “I had a make-believe major called Social Science Visual Arts. Raised in Park Slope in Brooklyn, Leiner met future Sopranos star Edie Falco when both attended the State University of New York at Purchase. Leiner also helmed Balls Out: Gary the Tennis Coach (2009), starring Scott, and produced The Young Kieslowski, winner of the audience award for best narrative feature at the 2014 Los Angeles Film Festival. Leiner then got the gig to direct Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (2004), the first of the three stoner films that starred John Cho and Kal Penn. ![]() Dude, Where’s My Car? (2000), starring Ashton Kutcher and Seann William Scott, was lambasted by critics, yet it grossed $73 million worldwide off a budget of $13 million.
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