Torrance Rises

Torrance Rises
Directed by	Lance Bangs Spike Jonze
Produced by	Vincent Landay
Starring	Spike Jonze Will Smith Madonna Chris Rock Janeane Garofalo Sofia Coppola Regis Philbin Fatboy Slim
Distributed by	Palm Pictures
Release dates	1999 (1999)
Running time	34 minutes
Language	English

Torrance Rises is a 1999 mockumentary directed by and starring Spike Jonze.^[1]

The film is based on a dance group in Torrance, California, and traces their journey to the MTV Video Music Awards presentation. The music video for Fatboy Slim's 1999 song "Praise You", also directed by Jonze, features a street performance by this group.

Torrance Rises also appears in the compilation The Work Of Director Spike Jonze (Palm Pictures).

References

Films directed by Spike Jonze

Feature films	Being John Malkovich (1999) Adaptation (2002) Where the Wild Things Are (2009) Her (2013)

Documentaries	Amarillo by Morning (1998) Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak (2009)

Short films	How They Get There (1997) Torrance Rises (1999) We Were Once a Fairytale (2009) I'm Here (2010)

Skateboarding films	Video Days (1991) Yeah Right! (2003) Fully Flared (2007)

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 8/22/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.