Exhibit A for Courteney Cox if she does end up divorcing David Arquette, The Tripper is Arquette’s bumbling, fumbling horror comedy, in which Cox has a three-second cameo. Arquette directed, co-wrote and co-stars in the thing, yet it’s so ugly in pure filmmaking terms that it can’t really be called a vanity project. A Reagan impersonator hacks away at a gathering of druggies at a Free Love Festival in the woods, while ham-handed attempts at political satire try to make sense of it all. This is a disaster, but it isn’t until the characters pause to debate the policies of George W. Bush that the movie really gets embarrassing.
