Overnight is a documentary offering a glimpse into what can become with quick success and how fragile it all is. Troy Duffy was a bartender who all of a sudden was being taken under Harvey Weinstein's wing. Weinstein offered him a deal unlike others that you hear of including purchasing the bar he worked in so they could own it between them. If Harvey did that for every film he made, he would own half the bars in Hollywood by now. Duffy believes Weinstein to be the big bad bully in this movie never realizing that he has been the cause of his own downfall. Anyone who thinks that they will be treated with kid gloves and able to do whatever they want at Miramax because their so great is headed for trouble. His band, who were included in the deal to record the soundtrack are on the verge of also procuring a record contract when things go awry. Troy Duffy relishes in the fact that he doesn't work the same as others in the industry but at the same time his method is far too juxt aposed to have ever sat well with Hollywood. When you scream down the phone at people and ask someone to let William Morris know that you are unhappy and will leave them unless they get things together then clearly you don't realize where you sit in the grand scheme of things. A movie deal is never finalized to be made until the cameras are rolling. The sadness of this documentary is that Duffy's ignorance prevents him from ever realizing that he simply failed to play nice and thought that the studio needed him since he was the new kid in town. In Hollywood, they can make you as fast as they can break you. An interesting hypocricy is his mention of ass kissers growing by the minute, yet early on we see footage of him hanging around Patrick Swayze, Mark Wahlberg and others.
Anyone who has ever heard tales of the Weinstein brothers ought to know never to risk pushing them the wrong way and this will show you exactly why.
Ironically after a proclamation that he doesn't plan to make any more movies, the sequel the Bondock Saints (the focus of this documentary) is currently in production. In watching Overnight though, you do have to question the reasoning behind it, presumably after being offered the too good to be true deal he simply wanted his friends to chronicle his rise to the top.
