Overnight

The megalomaniacal rise and fall of filmmaker Troy Duffy is chronicled by one-time friends and colleagues in director Mark Smith's documentary. The film takes its title from the "overnight success" that befell Duffy in 1996, when the then-bartender was signed by Miramax president Harvey Weinstein to ...more

Rarely has a case of comeuppance been so satisfying. Troy Duffy's death by hubris, as captured in the documentary Overnight, is not just for sadists, nor for jaded industry types eager to see a colleague taken down a peg. In fact, Duffy's behavior is so unforgivably poisonous, it will assault the sensibilities of even the most unflappable viewer. Conceived as a celebration of Duffy's simultaneous breakthrough as a filmmaker and musician, Overnight quickly became a priceless record of an ...more