Synopsis
A movie crew invades a small town whose residents are all too ready to give up their values for showbiz glitz.
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Cast
- Alec BaldwinBob Berrenger
- Philip Seymour HoffmanJoseph Turner White
- Charles DurningMayor George Bailey
- Clark GreggDoug Mackenzie
- Patti LuPoneSherry Bailey
- William H. MacyWalt Price
- Sarah Jessica ParkerClaire Wellesley
- David PaymerMarty Rossen
- Julia StilesCarla
- Rebecca PidgeonAnn
Recommendations
- 100
Rolling Stone
You may want to revisit this profanely hilarious Hollywood satire. . .just to catch the zingers the audience often drowns out with laughter. Hollywood corrupts absolutely, and Mamet turns the toxic process into the year's best and smartest comedy. - 90
Variety
A bona fide populist laugh riot. - 90
Los Angeles Times
A quintessentially wised-up insider comedy, ideally cast and filled with sharp writing from start to finish. - 88
New York Daily News
Gently hilarious comedy. - 88
Baltimore Sun
A snarling satire of Hollywood single-mindedness and its lack of any moral underpinning. - 80
Dallas Observer
This is probably the funniest Mamet piece to date (but not the weightiest), and it might be destined to take a seat alongside "The Player" and "Sunset Boulevard" in the front row of movieland satires. - 75
Philadelphia Inquirer
His (Mamet) direction is unobtrusive, unflashy, and always willing to allow the hilarious cast all the room it needs. - 70
TV Guide Magazine
Mamet's jabs at Tinseltown's silken ruthlessness are quietly pointed, and the ensemble cast -- even the brittle and sometimes annoying Pidgeon (Mamet's wife) -- is brilliant.
