I'm the One That I Want (US 2000)

Film version of Margaret Cho's one-woman show.

Director: Lionel Coleman

Neil Finn thanked in credits at the end of the movie.

Original music by Joan Jett - as far as I know there is no Finn music in the movie (I haven't seen it).

Notes

From an interview with Gregg Shapiro in an article called Cho Business Like Margaret:-

[...]

GS: You told the audience about how excited you were to be performing at the Warfield for the first time, because you used to go there to see concerts and shows. Was there one particularly memorable concert or show that you saw there?

MC: I remember seeing Crowded House there when I was just starting to do standup. That was a really influential concert for me because I love them. I thought that if I could be famous I would one day get to meet them. I actually did meet the lead singer, Neil Finn, like three weeks ago, which is really weird. Because I'd completely forgot about it (meeting them), and then I met him (laughs). You meet people in this business and you hang out and talk to them, and it's no big deal. I had this really different vision of show business when I was growing up. I thought that the world was all jet-set and Concorde Airplanes and VIP lounges everywhere you went. Show business isn't really like that at all. It's like having a regular job a lot of the time. It's not as glamorous as it's made out to be.

GS: I'm really glad that you brought up Neil Finn. I noticed that you thanked him in the credits at the end of the movie. I interviewed Tim Finn, his brother, a few months ago, and he was wonderful.

MC: Oh yeah. They're both great. I really love their music. They've been very influential, kind of like a spirit guide, guiding me. I really love what they do. I'd just like to capture that honesty for my own work.

[...]

Movie release information

4 August 2000 (New York) (Los Angeles)
Video NTSC
DVD: Region 1

Classification

To be added

Classification links - Aus, NZ, UK, US

Links

I'm the One That I Want (US 2000) (Internet Movie Database)

Margaret Cho (Internet Movie Database)
Margaret Cho official site

Outlines Entertainment: Cho Business Like Margaret by Greg Shapiro - no longer on line: archived

Sources of information

Cho Business Like Margaret; Internet Movie; TiTM

Page compiled by carolyn
Last updated 1st February, 2009.