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Steve D Never comes close to the sum of its parts. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review jon c How much of the actress is the actress or the mistress? Struggling filmmaker Marvin Landisman (Robert Wuhl) gets a surprise phone call from Jack Roth (Martin Landau), an ex-Hollywood executive who wants to turn one of Marvin's screenplays into a movie Marvin thinks his life's ambition is about to become a reality, until he meets the film's financial backers (Robert De Niro, Danny Aiello, Eli Wallach) Each investor has a young girlfriend whom they force Marvin to offer a role to, and then they also re-write the script until it's unrecognizable Not that much happens here to be honest Felt nothing was accomplished by the end The plot goes badly off the rails and it can't decide if it's supposed to be a comedy about Hollywood small-timers trying to get an indie pic off the ground, or a somber drama in which greed and lust overwhelm art A dull misfire that should've been comic gold Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Half-baked "insider Hollywood" comedy with not many laughs and nothing new to say. Great cast though. Two standouts for me: Martin Landau as a sad sack movie producer and Christopher Walken as a unstable actor. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review Audience Member A year into the pandemic now I'm just looking for modern professionally made films and this is one of them. It's well acted and lit and has good camera movement. It's far from exciting. One is very unlikely to watch this film without doing anything else on the side (folding laundry, playing computer), but it makes for perfect secondary viewing from a time when Hollywood put effort and a lot of stars into a movie nobody might ever see, and it happens to be about that too. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/12/23 Full Review Frances H Great cast and darkly funny satiric script about Tinsel Town and the ethics of those who make movies. How could a movie with Robert de Niro, Martin Landau, Danny Aiello, and Eli Wallach be anything else? And a good script! Couldn't ask for more! Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/03/15 Full Review Audience Member It tries to show an interesting reality in Hollywood business and that's why I bought it, but the truth is this movie goes nowhere and it ends anywhere. The cast was promising and first class, but they're all wasted, being Landau the only exception. The DVD box lies because it doesn't say Robert Wuhl is the protagonist, I would have bought the DVD if I had known he was, he was an awful actor, he always played his character in the same tone, pretending he has angry. One last thought: The whole movie is boring and clitched. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/23/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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