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6.0/10   242 votes
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Director:
Bill Couturié
Writers:
Peter Bart (book)
Peter Bart (screenplay)
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Genre:
Documentary more
Plot:
Hollywoods biggest talents explore what is the recipe for blockbuster, flops, and how absolute happenstance and controlled luck can make movie magic. | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Primetime Emmy. more
User Comments:
Completely uninspired waste of time more

Cast

  (Credited cast)

Peter Bogdanovich ... Himself

Pierce Brosnan ... Himself
David Brown ... Himself

Charles Chaplin ... (archive footage)

George Clooney ... Himself

Francis Ford Coppola ... Himself (archive footage)
Bill Couturié ... Himself (voice)

Danny DeVito ... Himself

Richard Dreyfuss ... Himself

Robert Evans ... Himself

Jodie Foster ... Herself

Morgan Freeman ... Himself

Brian Grazer ... Himself

Peter Guber ... HImself

Daryl Hannah ... Madison / Ayla (archive footage)
Oliver Hardy ... (archive footage)
Willard Huyck ... Himself
Gloria Katz ... Herself

Buster Keaton ... (archive footage)
Sherry Lansing ... Herself
Stan Laurel ... (archive footage)
Simone Mareuil ... (archive footage)

Penny Marshall ... Herself

Steve McQueen ... (archive footage)

Sydney Pollack ... Himself

Robert Redford ... Johnny Hooker / Roy Hobbs / Denys George Finch Hatton (archive footage)

Leo Rossi ... Cliff 'Scorpion' Albrect (archive footage)
Tom Rothman ... Himself

John Singleton ... Himself

Steven Spielberg ... Himself (archive footage)

David Strathairn ... Edward R. Murrow (archive footage)

Charlize Theron ... Herself

Rudolph Valentino ... (archive footage)

Nia Vardalos ... Herself

Richard D. Zanuck ... Himself
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Additional Details

Runtime:
USA:75 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Filming Locations:
Los Angeles, California, USA
Company:
HBO Films more

Fun Stuff

Quotes:
Morgan Freeman: [about "Bonfire of the Vanities"] When an airliner crashes, they say that it's usually caused by a series of mishaps. more
Movie Connections:
Features The Sting (1973) more

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2 out of 7 people found the following comment useful:-
Completely uninspired waste of time, 4 July 2006
1/10
Author: damian-50 from Dallas, US

This is one of the worst documentaries I've ever seen. Each new segment presents an obvious idea like "There are no rules for making a blockbuster" or "failure sucks". It then presents a handful of producers saying the same thing or slight variations of the phrase such as "There aren't any rules to making hits" or "There's no formula for making blockbusters" Intercut with the interviews are newspaper and trade magazine headlines that show the same phrase and small clips of different movies.

There is really no substance or insights in this movie. There aren't even any hard facts. It's a shame, too, because there are some really interesting people interviewed on the documentary. Too bad they just asked them the same softball clichéd questions. I would have loved to hear some insider stories, or just anything with some "meat" to it.

To sum it up it's a completely uninspired waste of time.

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