In 1995 there was a huge story around a fake “documentary”, relating to the 1947 Roswell Incident (when an American high altitude surveillance balloon crashed to earth and was said to be an extra-terrestrial craft).

The events of the 1995 documentary were re-told in this 2006 film, starring, amongst others:

• Anthony McPartlin as Gary Shoefield
• Declan Donnelly as Ray Santilli
• Jimmy Carr as Gavin (Gary’s Manager)
• Omid Djalili as Melik
• Morwenna Banks as Jasmine

Ant’s character (Gary) had a Manager – played by Jimmy. Not sure what caused Ant to pour his drink over Jimmy in this pic (I’ve not watched the full film). Jimmy’s part is described as a “cameo” – see synopsis, below.

Had a scout of some reviews and a good few say “it’s not that bad”.

It was released in cinemas on April 7^th 2006 and shown on BBC1 London on September 25^th 2009.

The London Premiere was held on April 3^rd 2006 at Leicester Square and Getty Images have pictures of Jimmy and Karoline – here.

The Production budget was £5m but it’s worldwide gross was only just over $4.04m.

Synopsis extract

This Den Of Geek story (from someone that has watched the film several times) talks about the film being padded out and says:

…it’s more interesting than any other images of Jimmy Carr’s involvement of the film. The comedian plays Gary’s boss, essentially some sort of legal big wig at a biscuit manufacturing business.

Shortly after Ray has finished recommending questionable movies to his nan (and getting caught by Trading Standards), we move into Gary’s work place. Here we have what my Film Studies tutors would have referred to as ‘the refusal of the call,’ the clichéd moment where the hero turns down his destiny for whatever reason the scriptwriters see fit.

No, Gary doesn’t want to go with America with Ray to buy Elvis memorabilia to flog, he sees a bright future in his job as a legal clerk at the biscuit place. On cue, Jimmy Carr beckons Ant into his office. What follows is a fairly unremarkable scene where Carr’s character reveals he isn’t going to promote Ant’s character.