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The Assistants

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Five film-school graduates use their positions as assistants to Hollywood power-players to lie, cheat and blackmail their way into producing their own movie.

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Mark Olsen Los Angeles Times This movie about wanting to make a movie doesn't make for much of a movie. Rated: 2/5 Dec 2, 2010 Full Review Dennis Harvey Variety There's no novelty or flair here to even briefly transcend overall predictability. Nov 29, 2010 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member Color me pleasantly surprised by this little independent movie about a group of friends searching for success in Hollywood, while desperately trying to avoid the price of selling out (or selling their souls) that so many other people have paid in order to achieve their dreams in the biz. The group (each interested in a different aspect of movie production, including writing, directing, editing, producing, acting, and behind the scenes work), hatch a hair-brained scheme to get a movie in production by using their positions as assistant to various powerful people to manipulate things in their favor. The movie ranges from light comedy to some fairly heavy stuff. People with inside knowledge of how Hollywood often works will probably appreciate this more than others. The Assistants also doesn't look that cheap, which automatically gives it an advantage over a lot of the bare-bones indies that are being made today. I liked it. It's no masterpiece, but it exceeded my expectations by being a pretty interesting small budget flick. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/24/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Steve Morris

Director

Chris Conner

Jack Ryder

Michael Grant Terry

Carl Dresden

Kathleen Early

Sarah Bryman

Aaron Himelstein

Ben Goodrich

Tate Hanyok

Alex Kramer
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Synopsis Five film-school graduates use their positions as assistants to Hollywood power-players to lie, cheat and blackmail their way into producing their own movie.
Director
Steve Morris
Producer
Mykel Denis, Karen P. Morris, Steve Morris
Screenwriter
Steve Morris
Distributor
Team Effort Films
Genre
Comedy
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Dec 3, 2010, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Mar 11, 2017
Runtime
1h 40m
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