It's good, but it's hardly what you'd call a comedy. The plot description I read made it sound like the Keystone Cops would show up. There is a little of that on the first disc, but most of the series is high drama, shouting, and pathos. Bob Hoskins plays Arnie Cole, an ambitious film distributor who's trying to become a producer. He enters a marriage of convenience with a rich socialite who has a kid "on the wrong side of the blanket" as he puts it. Their relationship has some charm, but the rest of characters are a nightmare. The comic, Corky Brown, is an aging, paranoid alcoholic who's barely holding his career and his marriage together. The Brewers, an acting family, are right out of "A Long Day's Journey Into Night". The leading lady of their first big film is an aging, coke addicted, diva right out of "Sunset Blvd." The director is a pompous pretender. Hoskin's girlfriend is shrill tramp. Not to mention that everything that can go wrong does go wrong. I thought I was going to get an ulcer just watching Arnie Cole. There is a LOT of unpleasant shouting. Like I said, it's good, but mostly at conveying why film making can be such a high stress dog-eat-dog industry.
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