Novocaine

2001
R
1h 35m

IMDb RATING

5.8/10

12K

YOUR RATING

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Dark Comedy Comedy Crime Drama Thriller

A dentist finds himself a murder suspect after a sexy patient seduces him and steals all of the drugs from his practice.A dentist finds himself a murder suspect after a sexy patient seduces him and steals all of the drugs from his practice.A dentist finds himself a murder suspect after a sexy patient seduces him and steals all of the drugs from his practice.

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IMDb RATING

5.8/10

12K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Trivia
Steve Martin and Scott Caan did not get along during filming because of Caan's reckless behavior toward a stuntperson in a scene in which his character smashes a beer bottle over the head of a man in a bar.

Goofs
When Frank enters the bathroom for the first time, the reflection of a cameraman is visible in the shower door.

Quotes
Frank: [Pulling his own teeth to fake his death] Strange as it may seem, it didn't hurt like I thought it would. In fact, with each tooth I pulled, I felt a little better... a little less trapped... a little more free. Until I felt so free that what I had to do didn't seem so bad at all.

Crazy credits
Opening credits are shown over X Ray images of people.

Connections
Featured in Siskel & Ebert: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone/Heist/Shallow Hal/Maze (2001)

Soundtracks
Concerto No. 3 in G for Violin and Orchestra, K.216
Written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performed by Takako Nishizaki
Soloist Capella Istropolitana, Conducted by Stephen Gunzenhauser (as Stephen Gunzehauser)
Courtesy of Naxos of America by arrangement with Source/Q

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Painful disappointment

Most stars have made a film they regret. I fear this will be the one for Steve Martin, Laura Dern & Helena Bonham Carter. Martin stars as a popular dentist, engaged to his office manager (Dern). One evening when he's alone in the office a mysterious young woman (Carter) comes in and convinces him to give her a prescription for pain killers, promising to come back for treatment the next morning. This one mistake of his sets off a series of intrigues and doublecrosses with a satisfying ending. So why am I so disappointed in the movie? For one thing, the story has holes that no amount of dental work can fill. And the movie is filled with gratuitously painful-to-watch scenes of dental work... starting right from the beginning. This is definitely not a movie to eat popcorn by and, in spite of the satisfying ending, everyone at my screening left the theater feeling sickened and extremely disappointed in Steve Martin.