Pauly Shore Is Dead is an American comedy/mockumentary motion picture released in 2003 starring comedian Pauly Shore. The cameo-filled movie begins as a semi-autobiographical retelling of Shore's early success and dwindling popularity in the late 1990s, after which it documents Shore's attempt to fake his own death in order to drum up popularity for his films. The film, with the original working title of You'll Never Wiez in This Town Again, marked Shore's debut as a writer, director, and producer. The film begins as an autobiographical look at Shore's early professional successes on MTV and... as the star of a series of 90s comedies. Shore's film career leads to his taking a starring role in a vehicle on the Fox network, in which he plays the slacker son of a millionaire. The pilot of the series turns out to be a commercial and critical failure, and Shore becomes a pariah virtually overnight, with his friends distancing themselves from him for fear that it will tarnish their own careers. Shore is ultimately reduced to living in his mother's attic and watching pornography starring his ex-girlfriend, who will no longer see him.
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