''The Wrong Ferarri'' is a feature-film written and directed by Adam Green. Conceived on Green's European music tour in the summer of 2010, the film was shot entirely on an iPhone camera, with Green writing the script for the actors on index cards. Scenes were shot in

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. Green has stated that ''The Wrong Ferarri'' was inspired by

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's ''Bananas'',

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's ''The Holy Mountain'',

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's ''UHF'',

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's ''

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''. The film contains strong profanity, sexual themes, and several scenes of nudity and is unrated by the

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. The film's title was intentionally misspelled.

Premise

The plot follows four of Greenster's love affairs, life as a video game character and the use of the hallucinogen

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. The film is structured as a series of sketches with

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dialogue, and does not follow a continuous plot.

Cast

* Adam Green as Greenster ** BP Fallon as Old Greenster * Jack Dishel * Chris Egan * Jon Wiley * Larissa Brown * Cory Kennedy *

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* Illyse Singer *

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* Devendra Banhart * The Shining Twins *

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* Omer Shemesh * Steve Mertens * Lindsay Hogan *

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* Aris Shwab *

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* Xan Aird * Binki Shapiro * Francesco Mandelli *

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* Matt Romano * Leah Green *

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* Dashan Coram * Julie LaMendola * Johnny Dydo *

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* Mick Whitnail * Alexandra Costin * Seth Faergolzia * Tobias G. Rylander *

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(voicework) * Donald Cumming (voicework)

Release

''The Wrong Ferarri'' was first released online as a free download. On April 4, 2011, the film premiered at

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References

External links

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