Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Robert De Niro | ... | Ben | |
Sean Penn | ... | Sean Penn | |
Catherine Keener | ... | Lou Tarnow | |
Bruce Willis | ... | Actor | |
John Turturro | ... | Dick Bell | |
Robin Wright | ... | Kelly (as Robin Wright Penn) | |
Stanley Tucci | ... | Scott Solomon | |
Kristen Stewart | ... | Zoe | |
Michael Wincott | ... | Jeremy Brunell | |
Jason Kravits | ... | Pollster (as Jason Kravitz) | |
Mark Ivanir | ... | Johnny | |
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Remy K. Selma | ... | Jimmy (as Remy Selma) |
Christopher Evan Welch | ... | Studio Marketing Guy | |
Lily Rabe | ... | Dawn | |
Sam Levinson | ... | Carl |
A week in the life of Ben, a powerful Hollywood producer, as he juggles negotiations with a studio head so that his newest picture can open at Cannes in two weeks, with a high-strung director who must make edits to the film, with an actor and his agent because the star has arrived on the set of a new picture with a full beard, and with his most recent ex-wife, Kelly, whom he discovers may have a lover. He also notices that his 17-year old daughter, from another marriage, has probably been crying. What's up? Can Ben keep it all together, get the green light from the studio to go to Cannes, move his new picture past the beard crisis, and maybe return to Kelly's good graces? Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
This is just pointless...
I have no idea what they really wanted to say...some Hollywood inside truth? Yeah, I knew that pretty clear, because this is not the first film that discussed that! Worse is that it seems that the actors did not know that it could be so boring...Come on, don't tell me they liked the script...
Robert De Niro himself looked quite "bored" in the film, and I couldn't help but wonder whether he just got disappointed in the midway of making it...His performance was so...plain, that you cannot give any serious comment on it...
Anyway, I do not know what this film is actually trying to convey, but I as a common audience were obviously ignored when it started to tell a story.