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Overview

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Director:
Jeff Nathanson
Writers (WGA):
Steve Fishman (article)
Jeff Nathanson (written by)
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Release Date:
5 November 2004 (Brazil) more
Genre:
Comedy more
Tagline:
The true story of the greatest movie never made.
Plot:
A movie director-screenwriter finds a man to finance his latest project but soon discovers that the producer is actually an undercover FBI agent working on a mob sting operation. full summary | add synopsis
User Comments:
Going from the sublime to the ridiculous makes for laughs and fun more (34 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Matthew Broderick ... Steven Schats

Alec Baldwin ... Joe Devine

Toni Collette ... Emily French

Tony Shalhoub ... Tommy Sanz

Calista Flockhart ... Valerie Weston

Tim Blake Nelson ... Marshal Paris
Buck Henry ... Lonnie Bosco

Ray Liotta ... Jack Devine

Ian Gomez ... Agent Nance
Troy Winbush ... Agent Ray Dawson
Thomas McCarthy ... Agent Pike (as Tom McCarthy)

W. Earl Brown ... Willie Gratzo
Evan Jones ... Troy Haines

Glenn Morshower ... Agent McCaffrey
James Rebhorn ... Abe White
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Providence (USA) (working title)
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MPAA:
Rated R for language and some sexual content.
Runtime:
93 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

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Trivia:
In the "burro casting" sequence neither of the animals being considered are burros. They are both mules - the sterile offspring of a burro (donkey) and a horse. more
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Anachronisms: Though the film is set in 1985, the United Airlines plane shown at the Rhode Island airport is painted in a color scheme that was not used until the mid-1990s. more
Quotes:
Valerie Weston: I'm gonna go home, Steven. That's right. I'm serious. Because of you, I'm gonna get gangbanged, Steven. Gangbanged in Woodland Hills.
Steven Schats: A lot of great actresses started out in porn.
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Movie Connections:
Spoofs "Bonanza" (1959) more
Soundtrack:
I Can See Clearly Now more

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17 out of 24 people found the following comment useful.
Going from the sublime to the ridiculous makes for laughs and fun, 14 October 2004
Author: t Shafton from Palm Desert, CA

This is a brilliant small budget movie that deserves much more buzz and play that it has received. It is similar in plot structure to Joseph Heller's Catch 22.

Both start out with an odd but "realistic" beginning. Each progresses in small steps to more and more outlandish and unbelievable situations with a blurred line between possible and "this can't really be happening."

In Catch 22, the story begins with an odd but possible situation in the European theater in World War II. At the end of the story Milo Minderbinder, an American officer, is contracting with both the Germany and the Allies to bomb the other's military installations.

In the Last Shot, the story begins Baldwin, an FBI agent trying to make a name for himself, voluntarily allowing the bad guys to cut of one of his fingers so that he can charge the bad guys with more serious crimes.

The plot progresses with Baldwin setting up a façade of making a movie to trap other Mafia types. Obviously, no one expects that the movie will ever be made. It then progresses to a point where Baldwin and his superiors at the FBI are making what appears to be a real deal for a "three picture deal" and negotiating over marketing rights.

That progression, together with some wonderful side trips,cameos by Joan Cusack and Buck Henry, caused something that is rarely heard in multiplex theaters with relatively small audiences-outright loud laughter and even a bit of applause as the movie ended.

This movie is not Gone with the Wind or Citizen Kane. It is just good fun with laughs enhanced by the progression of not likely but possible to outright absurdity. The kicker is that the movie, according to the producers was based on a true story. If so truth may really be stranger than fiction.

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