Madness in the Method

Madness in the Method is a 2019 American crime comedy film directed by and starring Jason Mewes, written by Chris Anastasi and Dominic Burns and produced by Rob Weston and Burns through Autumnwood Media in association with Happy Hour Productions. The film is Mewes's debut as a director. Mewes and several other cast members play fictional versions of themselves. Plot Character actor Jason Mewes struggles to gain legitimacy as an actor, as he has been typecast for decades with Kevin Smith as Jay and Silent Bob in the latter's View Askewniverse films. He decides to try method acting to reinvent himself, but it has negative effects on his sanity after he accidentally kills a director. Cast Jason Mewes as himself aka Jay Kevin Smith as himself aka Silent Bob Teri Hatcher as Gina Matt Willis as Anthony Costalino Jaime Camil as Fernando Vinnie Jones as himself Gina Carano as Carrie Danny Trejo as himself Stan Lee as himself Matthew Sterling Nye as George Mickey Gooch Jr as Detective Arnold Dean Cain as Dean Zach Galligan as Director/Zach Casper Van Dien as Tim David Dastmalchian as The Witness Harley Quinn Smith as herself Evanna Lynch as Abbie Fox Roxy Striar as Connie Brian O'Halloran as himself Esther Anderson as Georgie M. Anderson Blake Harrison as Oliver Judd Nelson as Miscreant Nick Nicotera as Esteban Paul Chowdhry as Store Clerk Matthew McGreevy as Brian X Release In May 2019, Cinedigm acquired North American rights to Madness in the Method. The distributor released the film on August 2 in a day-and-date platform release in theaters and on digital.