Joaquin Phoenix Documentary: Best Movie Ever or Best Movie Ever

As our sister site Deadline reported on Wednesday, William Morris Endeavor has begun showing the Joaquin Phoenix documentary (mockumentary?) I'm Still Here: The Lost Year of Joaquin Phoenix to prospective buyers with the hopes of finding the Casey Affleck-directed film some distribution. And if the reports of the film's content are to be believed, you have to wonder what's taking so long. To wit: I'm Still Here features a scene where "someone feuding with Phoenix defecates on the actor while he's asleep." But wait, there's more!

The potential buyers were shocked (shocked!) at the "Hollywood debauchery" that Phoenix exhibits throughout the film, which included snorting lines of coke, ordering call girls and participating in oral sex with a publicist of unknown gender. Worse, he treats his assistants badly, proving that tyranny knows no bounds.

There are even a few soul-deadening career killer sequences: One where Phoenix tries to get Sean "Diddy" Combs to produce his rap album and fails; another where Ben Stiller offers Phoenix a role in Greenberg -- presumably the part played Rhys Ifans? -- but the hirsute rapper/actor/crazyperson blows it off out of apathy.

And, oh yeah, the Cleveland Steamer stuff. Suffice it to say, no one knows what to make of I'm Still Here, but with a great title and "more male frontal nudity than you'd find in some gay porn," don't be surprised to see this get distribution sooner rather than later. Hey, it worked for Bruno...

· Joaquin Phoenix documentary: Even buyers aren't sure if it's a prank [LA Times via Vulture]