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Title: S1m0ne (2002)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Al Pacino | ... | Viktor Taransky | |
| Benjamin Salisbury | ... | Production Assistant | |
| Winona Ryder | ... | Nicola Anders | |
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Darnell Williams | ... | Studio Executive #1 |
| Jim Rash | ... | Studio Executive #2 | |
| Ron Perkins | ... | Studio Executive #3 | |
| Jay Mohr | ... | Hal Sinclair | |
| Catherine Keener | ... | Elaine Christian | |
| Evan Rachel Wood | ... | Lainey Christian Taransky | |
| Jeffrey Pierce | ... | Kent | |
| Jeff Williams | ... | Man in Suit | |
| Rachel Roberts | ... | Simone (as Simone) | |
| Mitzi Martin | ... | Premiere Audience Member | |
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Carole Androsky | ... | Premiere Audience Member (as Carol Androsky) |
| Christopher Neiman | ... | Premiere Audience Member | |
The career of a disillusioned producer, who is desperate for a hit, is endangered when his star walks off the film set. Forced to think fast, the producer decides to digitally create an actress "Simone" to sub for the star--the first totally believable synthetic actress. The "actress" becomes an overnight sensation, with a major singing career as well, and everyone thinks she's a real person. However, as Simone's fame skyrockets, he cannot bear to admit his fraud to himself or the world. Written by Sujit R. Varma
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Very good satire on the cult of celebrity, in which the whole world falls all over itself in praise of a non-existent actress. The movie also deals, to a much lesser extent, with the conflict between wanting to create a perfect artistic vision and wanting to create art that is in the world. It's not the most pointed or savage of satires, but it is quite a funny one. Some people here have criticized it for being predictable, which really misses the point of satire. Satire is based to a great extent on the frightening predictability of people, and it must follow a logical train of escalating events or what's the point. The biggest failing in the movie is near the end where it jumps track from a logical train of events to a dumb plot device, which while not a fatal error is lazy and takes away from the overall effect of the film.
But mainly it's just funny. Consistently so from beginning to end. And also notable as about the only good performance I've seen from Winona Ryder since Mermaids.