Synopsis
An electronic ankle bracelet and being under house arrest aren't about to stop up-and-coming actress Maggie Chase (Tanna Frederick) from the two things she craves the most: real fame and true love. With more "Google points" than her Iowa hometown, but far less than Angelina Jolie, Maggie is desperate to claw her way off the B-list of action/adventure pictures and into major movie stardom.
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Cast
- Tanna FrederickMaggie Chase
- Noah WyleAaron Lambert
- Christopher RydellDov Lambert
- Kathryn GrantElizabeth Lambert
- David ProvalCaesar
- Paul SandErnesto / Dependency Buster
- Zack NormanKaz Naiman
- Peter BogdanovichPedja Sapir
- Dennis ChristopherOdin Johannessen
- Diane SalingerHildi
Recommendations
- 63
Boston Globe
It's one of the funniest things I've seen in a movie, and the closest Jaglom has come to brilliant satire. It also explains why this woman is just chatting on a countertop and not Jay Leno's couch. - 50
Boxoffice Magazine
This movie is often hysterical, and sometime very sweet. - 50
The New York Times
There is something cozy and a little claustrophobic about Henry Jaglom's indulgent Hollywood satires. - 50
Village Voice
Queen of the Lot is sort of sweet in its earnestness, sort of frustratingly delusional, and ultimately unsubstantial-but there are moments of meta-provocation that almost justify the lopsided enterprise. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
The film starts out as a gentle Hollywood satire, shifts abruptly into a comedy of (bad) manners, turns into a crime story and deviates into a suicide attempt before it reverts to a Hollywood satire with a happy ending. No Hollywood satire should ever have a happy ending. - 50
San Francisco Chronicle
Mocking Tinseltown is a pretty exhausted subject, and even Jaglom, a genuine insider, has a hard time making it fresh. - 40
New York Daily News
The only grace notes come from Noah Wyle and Peter Bogdanovich as the two characters who refuse, in different ways, to buy the industry line. - 40
Time Out
Jaglom can craft a scene and stage organic conversations, but if his saps and suckers never wander beyond a hermetic view of the real world, then so what?
