- published: 14 Jun 2016
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Overnight is a 2003 documentary by Tony Montana and Mark Brian Smith. The film details the rise and fall of filmmaker and musician Troy Duffy, the writer-director of The Boondock Saints, and was filmed at his request.
Duffy is presented as a victim of his own ego, and as the film progresses and his fortunes fade, he becomes increasingly abusive to his friends, relatives and business partners. According to co-director Montana, "Troy seemed to revel in the attention of Hollywood's lights and our cameras. Only three times during the production did he ask not to be filmed. It was on those occasions that he threatened us."
Overnight is the story of Troy Duffy, a bartender and aspiring screenwriter who is also a musician in a band called "The Brood," along with his brother Taylor.
At the beginning of the film in 1997, Duffy is riding high: his script for The Boondock Saints has just been picked up by Miramax chief Harvey Weinstein for $300,000 and Duffy has been taken on by the William Morris Agency. Duffy, who had never made a movie or attended film school, will also direct the $15 million film. Moreover, his band will produce the soundtrack and get a recording contract from Maverick Records, and Weinstein will buy J. Sloan's, the Los Angeles bar Duffy works in and hire Duffy to run it. Meanwhile, Duffy asks friends Tony Montana and Mark Brian Smith to manage The Brood and document his activities on film.
I met you on the Sunday night by that Monday morning
Overnight although I wondered overnight what's wrong with me
Overnight love walked right in and shook me like a tree
Oh I sat down when I got home and gave my heart a warnin'
Overnight I dreamed about you overnight while count the sheep
Overnight I felt for you so hard I couldn't sleep
All night long I wished you were my own
And when I came to I was huggin' you like a hound dog hugs a bone
All night long my heart was standing still
And when I got up I pitched myself to see if this was real
Then you came by and told me dear the same sweet Monday morning
Overnight you dreamed about me overnight you loved me too
Overnight we found the dream that really did come true
(All night long I wished you were my own...