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There are a few great jokes in the film that involve Crispin Glover as a hotel attendant whose present-day self is missing an arm. Throughout the film, there are numerous instances of the character coming close to losing the limb, much to the frustration of Corrdry, who desperately wants to see it happen...
...Jacob dubs the "mystical time-traveling guy" who arrives to fix the hot tub; everything he says is mumbled nonsense and the only laugh lies in him being '80s icon Chevy Chase. But a gory running joke involving another prominent face from that decade - Back to the Future's Crispin Glover, playing a one-armed bellhop in the present and an intact but accident-prone bellhop in the past - might be the single funniest thing in the movie...
...Sometimes an actor is naturally just strange enough, whether in looks or something deeper within, to carry off a role that would look like mannered showboating by anyone else. Johnny Depp and Robert Downey Jr. have that talent, and so does Crispin Glover, although he doesn't seem capable of swinging into normalcy. It's too early to tell what Redmayne's (The Good Shepherd, The Other Boleyn Girl) full range is, but he's definitely got the gift of riveting strangeness. You start out thinking his Gordy is the village idiot; then, as this ghostly pale, freckled redhead goes...
...subsidiary called Zag to create and market novel goods like the Ila Dusk. BBH calls Zag its brand-invention business - and it isn't the only ad shop selling its own branded products. New York City agency Anomaly produces Eos, a line of women's cosmetics; Miami-based Crispin Porter + Bogusky is the brains behind Twist cleaning products. And Brooklyn Brothers, with offices in New York City and London, produces a line of organic milk chocolate called Fat Pig. (See the 50 best inventions...
...cuddly, sweet and needs ego-boosting, is missing an eye and wears a lone button on his chest, kind of like Don Freeman's beloved bear Corduroy. Number 6 is loopy, creative and imprisoned by his own mind, so naturally he wears vertical stripes and is voiced by Crispin Glover. There is a ferocious lady warrior, Number 7 (Jennifer Connelly), who wears bone earrings and a helmet made from a skull. As for Number 9 (Elijah Wood), he's not only the last and most significant of the dolls, but he's the most fashion-forward too, with a heavy...