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5.4/10   959 votes
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Director:
Writers (WGA):
Barry Primus (story)
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Release Date:
24 July 1992 (USA) more
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Tagline:
The Director Had A Vision. The Producers All Had Girlfriends.
Plot:
A comedy about a screenwriter (Wuhl) whose old movie script is read by a producer (Landau) and the search for financial backers begins... more | add synopsis
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Four 80s Films That Deserve To Be Remade
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Great actors in search of a script more (12 total)

Cast

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Robert Wuhl ... Marvin Landisman

Martin Landau ... Jack Roth
Vasek Simek ... Hans (as Vasek C. Simek)
Thomas R. Voth ... Stagehand

Jace Alexander ... Stuart Stratland Jr.
Mary Mercier ... Shelby's Waitress
Tuesday Knight ... Peggy

Eli Wallach ... George Lieberhof

Danny Aiello ... Carmine Rasso

Jean Smart ... Patricia Riley

Robert De Niro ... Evan M. Wright
William Rotko ... Valet (as Bill Rotko)
Dimitri Dimitrov ... Maitre d'

Sheryl Lee Ralph ... Beverly
Chuck Low ... Benrie
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Hollywood Mistress (USA) (alternative title)
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MPAA:
Rated R for language.
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110 min
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Barry Primus had been shopping his script around for several years before his good friend Robert de Niro agreed to back the film and take a co-starring role. more
Quotes:
Evan: Theres no sex in your movie, there has to be more sex.
Marvin: No there is some, it's just not obvious
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Spoofed in The Mistress (1993) (V) more
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Mitch's birthday song more

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Great actors in search of a script, 5 January 2001
7/10
Author: Barbara Pinzka (pinzka@earthlink.net) from Cincinnati, Ohio USA

Pun intended. This is a comedy about trying to make a movie in Hollywood. There's a screenwriter (Wuhl), desparate to see his long-forgotten masterpiece brought to the screen, a producer (Landau) who hasn't had a hit in 15 years and three wanna-be producers (De Niro, Aiello and Wallach), of varying competence. All of the producers have girlfriends who want to be in the movie. Everyone has complicated lives.

The theme is compromise, and who can and who can't. Some parts of the film are mesmerizing, earning it a seven from me, and others sag. A splendid birthday party serves as the climax of the film but I had no idea of why the birthday boy was being feted.

See it if you like the lead male actors - they're terrific (even if it does remind you that women of the the same age can't find roles as juicy). Otherwise, it's another "ain't Holywood awful" movies.

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