Synopsis
Ivan Beckman, Hollywood's most sought-after talent agent, the darling and crown prince of La La Land, is dead. How and why did it happen? Was it drugs, murder, or perhaps something altogether more mundane? We begin with an ending and then catapult back a number of days to the apex of Ivan's brilliant career as he bags international megastar Don West onto his company's books. We then follow Ivan through the highs, lows, and extreme excesses of his final days.
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Cast
- Danny HustonIvan Beckman
- Peter WellerDon West
- Lisa EnosCharlotte White
- Joanne DuckmanMarcia Beckman
- Angela FeatherstoneAmanda Hill
- Caroleen FeeneyRosemary Kramer
- Valeria GolinoConstanza Vero
- Adam KrentzmanBarry Oaks
- Heidi Jo MarkelFrancesca Knight
- James MerendinoDanny McTeague
Recommendations
- 100
Chicago Reader
Huston's performance is spellbinding. And the naturally lit digital cinematography (by Rose and Ron Forsythe) is both poetic and harrowingly intimate in depicting Ivan's impending death. - 100
San Francisco Chronicle
Director Bernard Rose has created a committed, intelligent and fascinating piece of work with no irony about it. - 70
The New York Times
Contrived as this may sound, Mr. Rose's updating works surprisingly well. -- the story's sympathetic, tragic sense of the fragility of individual dignity is, if anything, made even more haunting in this version. - 70
New Times (L.A.)
Shot on High Definition video, this exceptionally well-made but exceedingly bleak peek at tinseltown would be unbearable were it not for the sympathetic performance of Danny Huston. - 60
TV Guide Magazine
Its high-definition video images -- are coated with a convincing sheen of disgust, and Huston's performance is riveting. - 60
Village Voice
Boldly engineering a collision between tawdry B-movie flamboyance and grandiose spiritual anomie, Rose's film, true to its source material, provides a tenacious demonstration of death as the great equalizer. - 60
Variety
Achieves a certain poignancy through its sensitivity to mortality in a context where illness and death are often thought of primarily in terms of gossip, blown deals and lost money. - 50
New York Daily News
It is both inside-baseball and self-parody, exposing a world that is just as ruthless and shallow as we've been shown it is in films like "The Player" and "Permanent Midnight."
